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Two contrasting ideas that underscore a tale of two cities: the Premier’s speech about market intervention, and Robert Pires’s purported comment that Portuguese were brought to Bermuda because blacks after slavery did not want to work. The two commen...

A writer and researcher said better education about the impact of Portuguese people on Bermuda is needed. Sandra Rouja said the contribution of people of Portuguese heritage to Bermuda had been overlooked in schools. She added: “I think the Portugues...

A children’s re-enactment of the historic Gunpowder Plot of 1775 has been hit this week with its own case of missing gunpowder. Now charities involved in the education field trip for primary school students have pleaded for the return of the historic...

The story of an enslaved woman accused of a plot to poison slave masters is one of the highlights of a “robust” calendar of events launched to showcase the culture and history of Bermuda. Residents and visitors can look forward to theatrical performa...

Residents were asked to dig out old photographs and records that help to tell the story of Bermuda’s Parliament ahead of its 400th anniversary. The milestone will be marked in 2020 and Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, hoped member...

Latoya Thomas-Bridgewater has a message for Bermuda: tell our history and all the rest will fall into place. She’s talking about African history in particular. The social worker feels it holds the key to “understanding our behaviour and [the necessa...

Dear Sir, I read with interest, Bryant Trew’s August 28 letter, raising questions about independence for Bermuda, in light of the latest independence push, now under way. Mr Trew has a sharp eye and knows how to express himself, with clarity and wei...

A “phenomenal” project on the arrival of slaves in America has sparked a call to boost discussion about history in Bermuda. Cheryl Packwood, the former director of the Government’s Washington DC office, said that further embracing the island’s past w...

Visitors to St George’s can meet characters from Bermuda’s 1775 Gunpowder Plot over the next few weeks. Several dozen men broke into an unguarded ammunition magazine above Tobacco Bay, St George’s, on August 14, 1775 and stole more than 100 casks of ...

A set of stamps has been released to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bermuda Floating Dock. It took about 1,400 workers nearly three years to complete the structure at a shipyard in North Woolwich, England. On June 24, 1869, HM Floating Dock...

An all-female panel comprised four Bermudian academics and an American professor presented research on Bermuda as part of a two-day conference hosted by the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, entitled “Racialisation and Publicness in...

The stories behind the 1959 Theatre Boycott and the quiet heroes who overthrew segregation are to be celebrated this weekend. Glenn Fubler, of the group Imagine Bermuda, asked families to learn about the Progressive Group, the secret orchestrators of...