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In the remarkable Fay and Geoffrey Elliott Collection of nineteenth-century paintings and photographs at the Bermuda Archives are a number of works for which the author, that is to say, artist, is presently unknown. Like many family photographs, anci...

As the Great Depression of 1929—39 was beginning, the shipping subsidiary of the Canadian National Railways, the Canadian National Steamships, ordered three identical passenger liners from the Cammell Laird works at Birkenhead, near the great maritim...

After the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia (1607) and Bermuda (1612), the London entrepreneurs who settled those places turned their attention to other possible sites for their corporate colonies, but to the south in the lands of the Caribbean Se...

Perched high on the hill on the western side of the old Royal Naval Dockyard at Bermuda stands one of our most important historic buildings, the Casemate Barracks. The building was begun at the time that Queen Victoria came to the throne in Britain a...

After more than 60 years, the last commercial sailing ship to operate out of Bermuda has been found By Dr Edward Harris It is perhaps appropriate at this religious time of year (for Christians — dare one say in this PC Era) that we received word of t...

In the small world that was Bermuda of the mid-1830s, we can presume that the two consummate artists then resident here, Mr Thomas Driver and Dr Johnson Savage, would have met one another and possibly even painted together. History, that is to say of...

General Sir R Plunkettdown-Hardd Officer Commanding The Royal Artillery Woolwich Arsenal Sir: Before HMS Bermuda sets sail for London on the 21st instance, I hasten to get this report to you written of my journey to the City of Hamilton in these par...

A party isn’t complete without gourmet food, a dessert buffet, shape-shifters, live statues and an artist sketching portraits of one’s derrière — so proves Planning Factory Bermuda (PFB). The event planning company recently honoured its clients with...

‘The book recognises the birth of Caribbean museums from colonial-era institutions, which were faithful adjuncts to the status quo, to the present day institutions which in a dynamic way seek to protect, respect and promote cultural diversity as well...

One day in the three-year period 1833–36, perhaps around the heady days of Emancipation of the remaining slaves in Bermuda, the young Royal Artillery surgeon, Johnson Savage, set about on a walkabout in the Parish of St George’s, armed not with sword...