Category: History
Winnie Childs Celebrates Her 106th Birthday
Winifred ‘Winnie’ Childs celebrated her 106th birthday today [Aug 10] with a cake and balloons marking the event. The Westmeath Residential and Nursing Care Home resident was joined by family members and friends, with Deputy Premier Walter Roban stopping by to offer the birthday celebrity best wishes and join in on the celebrations. Family... Read more of this article
Guild Of The Holy Compassion Annual Service
The Guild of the Holy Compassion recently held their annual service off St. David’s Head, with the organisers explaining that the event held to commemorate the St. George’s Pilots lost off St. David’s when their pilot gig Ocean Queen 11 capsized in a storm of the East End in 1927. “Additionally, the service was held for the men lost from... Read more of this article
Old Bermuda Posters For Auction In New York
A series of vintage travel posters featuring Bermuda from the 1940s and 1950s will be on offer at Swann Auction Galleries Vintage Posters sale next month in New York. A spokesperson said, “A series of vintage travel posters celebrating the delights of Bermuda will be on offer at Swann Auction Galleries Vintage Posters sale on August 7 in New York. “Highlights... Read more of this article
Minister: Emancipation Commemoration Events
A number of events are taking place this month to recognise the 185th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Bermuda, Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports Lovitta Foggo said, adding that the events “will strengthen our understanding of who we are, where we come from, and the strength of the shoulders that we all stand upon.” Speaking... Read more of this article
Premier: ‘Finally Does Justice After 116 Years’
Premier David Burt tabled the Writ by which the Governor granted the posthumous pardon to Rev. Monk in the House of Assembly, saying it was a “decision made on the strength of the facts presented and one that finally does justice after 116 years.” “Just over a year ago I advised this Honourable House that I had invited the Governor,... Read more of this article
Posthumous Pardon Granted To Reverend Monk
[Updated] Governor John Rankin has granted a posthumous pardon to the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk in accordance with Section 22 of the Constitution. “The Reverend Monk was convicted, imprisoned and fined in 1903 for publishing an article in the press on the living and working conditions of Jamaican nationals employed to work at the dockyard in... Read more of this article
National Museum Dockyard Clock Chimes Again
Recent visitors to the National Museum of Bermuda [NMB] may have noticed the reassuring chimes of the Dockyard Clock are back, faithfully alerting them to the time every fifteen minutes. Originally installed in the south turret of the Great Eastern Storehouse [now the Clocktower Shopping Mall], the mid-Victorian clock mechanism was made by John Moore... Read more of this article
Series Of Events To Highlight Emancipation Day
A series of events will be hosted this month in the lead up to the Emancipation Day observances. A Government spokesperson said, “The Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo, is encouraging the public to support a series of events being hosted this month in the lead up to the Emancipation Day observances. “Emancipation... Read more of this article
Randy Horton Featured On Football Book Cover
“Pele and Eusebio couldn’t have done it by themselves; there were the other black pioneers, some of whom predated Pele, who played major roles in making the NASL a great league. Among them were Bermudian Randy Horton, who played for the New York Cosmos and led the team to its first NASL title.” This is an extract from the recently... Read more of this article
‘Mary Prince Legacy Bus Tour’ Being Held
Titan Express – in partnership with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs – is getting set to present ‘The Mary Prince Legacy Bus Tour,’ being held every Friday in July. A spokesperson said, “The story of Mary Prince is of significant importance to the history of emancipation, which took place in Bermuda on August... Read more of this article
Bermudians & The First Age Of Revolution Talk
The latest installment of the Department of Community and Cultural Affair’s Bermudian Heartbeats lecture series – a joint event in partnership with the National Museum of Bermuda and the Bermuda College – saw historians Dr. Clarence Maxwell, Dr. Theodore Francis II and Alexandra Mairs-Kessler share the research for their new book Prudent Rebels:... Read more of this article
‘Bermudians & The First Age Of Revolution’
The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, Government of Bermuda and National Museum of Bermuda Press have recently launched a new publication, Prudent Rebels: Bermudians and the First Age of Revolution [1774-1849] by renowned Bermudian historian Dr. Clarence Maxwell, with contributions from Bermudian Dr. Theodore Francis II and Alexandra Mairs-Kessler. “Prudent... Read more of this article
