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Bermuda has a beginning, a middle and an end, like a good story, with many good mini-plots in between. They are parts of considerable differences, with the middle, the City of Hamilton, more devoid of built heritage than the beginning or the end, not...

‘Tourism is Bermuda’s second largest industry…The island attracts tourists through advertisements, word-of-mouth, and creating an environment that suits both citizens and visitors.’Ashley Bento, Berkeley Institute, The Bermuda Sun, 2 March 2012. ‘I ...

February 29, 2012 Dear Sir, I have been reading Dr Harris’ weekly contribution entitled ‘Heritage & Tourism’ and find them exceptionally good reading and too true to reality, especially the February 25 contribution ‘defending Bermuda’. Dr Harris, I...

For Captain Roy Kenneth Todd, news of the once-legendary Bermudian tender Canima now rusting at port in Canada is an occasion for a wealth of memories. Mr Todd, who retired five years ago after a life on the water for Marine and Ports, spent ten year...

A project to recreate the earliest dwellings built by Bermuda’s settlers has been given the official go-ahead by the Department of Planning. St David’s Historical Society President Rick Spurling said the group hopes to start soon on building a home l...

Heritage comes in a number of forms, or species if you will, some endemic, or arising out of a place as unique, others native, or imported as ideas or material shapes. Some heritage is intangible and impossible to preserve, except by practice and rep...

Between 1767 and 1955, eighty-two senior officers of the Royal Navy served as Commanders-in-Chief of British naval forces in the western North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, known successively as the “North America” and the ‘“River St Lawrence...

The remains of Sir Jacob Wheate, discovered buried beneath St Peter’s Church, were recently examined by a bio-archaeologist. Sir Jacob, the Captain of the HMS Ceberus, commonly known as the ‘Musket Ball Wreck’, died in Bermuda in 1783. In 2008, his ...

‘It was with a sudden and unexpected thrill in early 2009 that I stumbled upon the then unfinished mural by Graham Foster in what is now known as the Hall of History in the Commissioner’s House on the grounds of the National Museum of Bermuda. Only a...

Divers have discovered what appears to be a Bermuda Cedar tree root still planted in its original location - 53ft deep and nine miles to the north of Bermuda. Now the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and the Department of Conservation Servic...

The last Commanding Officer of HMS Malabar has labelled the deterioration of the historic west end building “a crying shame”. In the 16 years since Government took over the building from the Royal Navy, Commander Robin Bawtree said the building has b...

The archipelagos of the Azores in the east and Bermuda in the west dominate the central seas of the North Atlantic, for while they are but small patches of dry land supported on oceanic volcanoes, they are all that the distressed mariner can hope to ...