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One of the most important classes of seamen in Bermuda until the Age of Steam revolutionised the ‘sailing’ technology of ships was the pilot cadre. These were men, mostly from the west and east ends of Bermuda, who ventured to sea in ‘pilot gigs’, sm...

‘In 1889, the Corporation completed the erections of a handsome galvanised cast iron BAND STAND made to their order by the Sun Foundry, Glasgow’ — Bermuda Almanack 1893 Given its size, the City of Hamilton could not afford the luxury of a ‘central p...

‘As yet I have no where abroad seen such peculiar and beautiful scenery’ — James Williamson, 1929 By Dr Edward Harris Communication is key to human life, not to say that it is not to the birds and bees (what is left of both), but that humans develop...

‘An Island as beautiful as Bermuda cries out to be explored; there is no finer way to do this than to travel, in your own time, along the right of way which once carried the Bermuda Railway’ — Colin A Pomeroy, 1993 Aside from a wonderful article on ...

“We have learned from one who knew and frequently conversed with Bowen that he was born of creditable parents in the island of Bermuda who gave him a good education befitting him for the sea.” — Captain Charles Johnson, 1724. Seven hundred years aft...

It took over a thousand years after their heyday in Europe for the Vikings to arrive at Bermuda and as they did in other lands, from Ireland to Anatolia, they settled in and reproduced. In this ‘Genetic Age’, given a swab or two followed by a test (p...

‘L’Herminie was one of the last frigates built before the shift to auxiliary steam power in French warships’ — Dr Gordon Watts In the 1830s, the temperature in the lands that then comprised Mexico was heating up, not due to the addition of chilli pe...

The entrance to the Bermuda Dockyard, headquarters of the North America and West Indies Station of the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century, was originally a complicated access comprised two ditches, an outwork fort, a rampart to the Great Wharf and ...

‘I love the articles in the “Heritage Matters” reprints: now I can tell my visitors the truth’ Anonymous Taxi Driver Many in Bermuda yet object to the fact that local history was not generally taught in schools in previous generations and thus there ...

It’s been said that history is to a people what memory is to an individual. Just as when a person suffers amnesia, a community that doesn’t know where it has been, will have no clue where it is, let alone where it is going. It will become disoriente...

By Dr Edward Harris Heritage Matters A little over nine hundred miles to the south of Bermuda lies the great archipelago of the Bahamas, a group of hundreds of islands and cays associated with Bermuda since the inception of its settlement by European...

All voyages begin somewhere, usually at a fixed position such as a wharf or dock, or on the ground below the last step of the front stairs of a home. Behind one voyage usually lie many others and they take various forms, sometimes starting before the...