The St Helena Connection
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Issue 39: December 2025
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Society News from the Chair
Secretary Wanted
Annual General Meeting 2026
Membership Information
St Helena Youth Parliament
New Rupert's Bay Facility for Cargo Handling and Delivery
Historic Addition: RMS St Helena Maquette
St Helena Built Heritage Grant Scheme 2025
Louis Youde & Smudge Dog Media
Scanning St Helena's History
A Three-Dimensional Jigsaw Puzzle
A Final Note: Don't Throw That Out!
Titans Take Flight
Worldwide Support for St Helena
What the Flax?
Profile: Stedson Stroud OBE
Half Tree Hollow Playground
Saleroom News
Book Reviews
Obituary: Andrew Bell OBE
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Issue 38: July 2025
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Society news
Executive Committee nominations and AGM2025
DARWIN2000: An Historic Visit to St Helena
Jamestown Wharf, What Does the Future Hold?
A Leading Role in Efforts to Protect St Helena's Unique Biodiversity
Ascension Island and the Starlink Saga
The St Helena Culture Centre -- Where are we now?
"So who you is? Who you belongs to, lovey?"
Wanderlust Travel Award Nomination
St Helena Tourism Board Announces New Leadership Team
Saleroom News
Ladder Hill Road Closed for July
Book Reviews
AGM Speakers
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Issue 40: June 2026
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Editorial
FoSH committee job descriptions
Society News
Annual General Meeting 2026
Membership Information
St Helena Day flag raising ceremony in London
Schrödinger's Tortoise
Re-lighting Jacob's Ladder
Growing together: how SHAPE is changing lives on St Helena
Girl Guiding in the British Overseas Territoris
New Banknotes for St Helena
St Helena Culture Centre update
Airport shutdown
Saleroom news
AGM talks
Update: Half Tree Hollow Playground Project
Book reviews
St Helena Tourism: Enhancing the visitor experience
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Issue 37: February 2025
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Society newsSt Helena Tourism, by Beth Tracy Online research conference, by Drew Whitworth Commonwealth Heritage Forum & Jamestown Heritage Conservation Management Plan, by Peregrine Bryant New Jacob's Ladder Records, by Beth Tracy East India Company tours, by Lisa Honan Field Road re-opens, by Edward Baldwin Dr Arnold Commemorated, by Maxina Yon and Richard Grainger Flight Delays, by Edward Baldwin and Pat Harris MV Seven Seas Splendor visit, by Edward Baldwin Museum Acquisitions, by Adam Sizeland Cape to St Helena Yacht Race, by Beth Tracy Prince Andrew School and Computers, by Drew Whitworth Land Rover Cruise, by Joey George Electric Subaru on St Helena, Subaru UK -
Issue 36: June/July 2024
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Society news
Enhancing St Helena's Water Supply
SHCC Groundbreaking ceremony
The iRecord Database
Pathogens in the Cloud Forest
Progress with Internet Access
Cannon Incident
The visit of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Culture Month
Field Road & Ruperts Update
Extreme Weather
St Matthews Church Windows and H T Bosdet
St Helena Research & Innovation -- Online conference
Book review: St Helena, a Biography
Other new books
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Issue 35: December 2023
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Editorial/Society News
St Helena Cloud Forest Project by Kirsten Ellis
St Helena Travel Statistics and Air Services
UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum report
Descent from Admiral Cockburn
Flights and Shipping Update
Further Saleroom Notes
Obituary: Michael D Mueller 1951-2023
On the Wings of a Wirebird by Sophie Gresswell
DNA reveals origins of St Helena's Liberated Africans/St Helena genetic study
Book reviews; Vet at the End of the Earth / They Stood Tall
Album of Chinese rice paper paintings sold at auction
Field Road and Sidepath reconstruction and port development at Ruperts
Cultural Heritage on St Helena
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Issue 34: June 2023
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Society News
Society Accounts
Commons Environment Meeting by Edward Baldwin
Update on Shipping and Flights by Edward Baldwin
High speed broadband project by Vince Thompson
A chainsaw is needed to rescue a cow: Joe Hollins
Tourism sector showing positive signs of recovery: SHG
Beau Rowlands by Ian Mathieson
Eyewitness view of Napoleon's funeral by Edward Baldwin
Prince's Lodge by Edward Baldwin
A Voyage on the St Helena by Urs Steiner
Reviews: Too Small a World by V. Milton Smith [Edward Baldwin], Take the Opportunities by S. Sugrue [J Garner], Stroling Players of Empire by K. Wilson
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Issue 33 - December 2022
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Visit of the RRS Discovery to St Helena
The Coming of the Cable -- Drew Whitworth (talk given at 2022 AGM)
'A Story of Bones': An Update
Who is, when is, what is St Helena Government? -- John Tyrrell
Jacob's Ladder Repair Project -- Edward Baldwin
Upgrading of Sidepath -- Edward Baldwin
UK Health Security Agency's Report on St Helena
Plastic Pollution on Ascension Island -- BBC News
Nick Thorpe 1949-2002 -- Edward Baldwin
Reburial of the Liberated African Remains -- Adam Sizeland
The Chinese Artists of St Helena -- Tony Cross (ed. Simon Butt)
Rob Castell 1941-2022 -- Ian Mathieson
Island's Cargo Shipping Service Under Review
Book: Britain's Island Fortresses by Bill Clements
St Helena: A Dream Island? -- Ivor Bryant
Price Inflation Continues Upward Trend
Miracles on St Helena -- Richard Grainger
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Issue 32 - June 2022
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Website development
Website management
Update on the Equiano Cable
Some Background to the Thornton Story -- Edward Baldwin and Nick Thorpe
Sidepath Reconstruction Severely Delayed -- Edward Baldwin
Hall Road to St Helena 2021 -- David Hall
Football on St Helena -- Drew Whitworth
20th Anniversary of St Helena's Museum -- Adam Sizeland
Museum Receives Donation of Half a Ton of Books -- Edward Baldwin
A Remarkable Boer War Scrap Book -- Edward Baldwin
St Helena Veterans Association -- Mike Durnford
St Helena Cloud Forest Update
Writing The Company's Island -- Stephen Royle
The Road From St Helena -- Steve Bicknell
Book Reviews
Nothing Can Stop Us by Richard Grundy and Neil Robson
Napoleon's Garden Island by Donal McCracken
Exiles: Three Garden Journeys by Sara Wheeler
Railways at the End of the World by Martin Coombs and David Sinclair
St Helena Cloud Forest Project Funding
Completion of the New Ladder Hill Flagstaff
FoSH Publications
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Issue 31 - December 2021
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Society News
Due to covid restrictions, the cancellation of all events connected to 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death.
Colin Fox has relinquished his 10-year editorship of Wirebird.
The editorship of Wirebird will now be assumed by Andy Pearson.
Overall membership now stands at 406 members.
Appeal made for a volunteer to run the Society's website.
Copyright permission has been given to host many of Trevor Hearl's articles on the website.
Members are invited to voice their opinion on whether to hold meetings once a year or twice.
Further information on Napoleon's tomb and Governor Murphy by J. Coyle.
Visit to St Helena by HMS Protector by Edward Baldwin.
Landing of the Equiano Cable by Edward Baldwin.
St Helena Revisited: Changes in a Decade by Urs Steiner.
The Dutch Territorial Stone from Teutonic Hall by R Moerenhout.
What Happened with Thornton: An Inside View by J.Coyle.
The Waterwitch Commemoration by Adam Sizeland.
The Endangered Archive Programme on St Helena by Andy Pearson.
Saving the Cloud Forest Project by SHG.
Ascension & St Helena Temperature & Precipitation Data Series by P. Jones & D. Lister.
The Mitey Minors of St Helena by Richard Grainger.
Nothing Can Stop Us: Tristan’s volcanic eruption by R. Grundy and N. Robson (new book publication).
Sidepath Upgrading by Edward Baldwin.
Ascension by Oliver Harris (new fictional book publication).
FoSH Publications.