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A partnership between the Department of Education and the Bermuda National Trust helped bring history alive for over 350 primary school students during the Covid-19 pandemic. The closure of schools and all Trust museums and historic houses as a resul...

Bermuda’s latest batch of commemorative stamps will highlight the island’s historic bridges. The stamp series, the first of 2020, will feature Watford Bridge, Flatts Bridge, the Bridge at Norwood and the Causeway. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the ...

Slavery abolition icon Mary Prince features in a new children’s card game designed as a tribute to inspirational women from around the world. Super Sapiens was created by Bermudian mother Alexa Virdi, who said it was difficult to find games that allo...

In celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, we summarise the accomplishments of five women who helped make a difference to Bermuda in the 20th century. Adele Tucker was born in 1868 in Warwick and became a teacher after training at the Col...

Failure to fix education in Bermuda would be a disservice to the trailblazers that came before, an honouree at a Black History Month celebration said. Gil Tucker said: “If we don’t fix education, I believe we will have disappointed our ancestors and...

The impact of Africans on world culture was celebrated as a primary school marked the end of Black History Month yesterday. Somersfield Academy pupils got the chance to examine two elaborate bronze statuettes from Benin City in Nigeria and heard abou...

Black Bermudian icons from cooks to craftsmen were highlighted when a primary school turned museum yesterday. Paget Primary School hosted its third annual Black History Museum as a finale to Black History Month. The pupils also had an opportunity to ...

Pupils at a primary school celebrated island heroes as part of Black History Month yesterday. Youngsters at Northlands Primary in Pembroke were taught about football and cricket legend Calvin “Bummy” Symonds, a former pupil. They also learnt about Ma...

A dramatic moment in Bermuda’s history in which a group of enslaved ship passengers won their freedom is up on display at the Bermuda National Library. The exhibit commemorates a 19th-century court case after the American ship Enterprise reached Berm...

A cultural tour has been launched to show off the rich heritage of one of Bermuda’s oldest churches. Cobbs Hill Methodist Church, in Warwick, which was built mostly by moonlight by enslaved black people and free black Bermudians in the 1820s, is now ...

Two trailblazers are to be celebrated at a dinner to mark Black History Month at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club. Ruth Thomas and Gil Tucker will speak about their personal experiences and the importance of black history at the event. Ms Thomas, a...

Somers Day is to be renamed Mary Prince Day after a once enslaved Bermudian who became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain. The legislation, which was tabled yesterday, will also move the Bermuda Day holiday from the last Friday in May to ...