The St Helena Connection

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Issue 29 - December 2020
Cumulative index since 2006
Society News
Membership Numbers
Committee Membership
Barbara George awarded BEM
Telecom Egypt Signs Sub-sea Cable Agreement
Lower Ruperts Development
Lower Ruperts Archaeology by Edward Baldwin
St Helena’s Public Service is Changing
Camp Bradley’s Diary by Addie Thomas
Archaeology of Jamestown Graveyards by A. Sizeland
Jonathan’s Hidden secrets by Joe Hollins
Views of St Helena: Boer Chessboard from Robin Woodruff
Book Review: Updated Bradt Guide
Napoleonic Bicentenary Trust
New St Helena Maps by Edward Baldwin
Father Fred Obituary by Edward Baldwin
From Honeymoon to Hearing Aid Support by Klaus Averberg
Gov. Hutchinson by his great, great-granddaughter Pril Rishbeth
The Fleeing Dutchman - Ron Moerenhout. Review by E. Baldwin.
The French Connection by Richard Grainger
Tristan da Cunha Marine Protection Zone
Fishing Vessel GeoSearcher sinks off Gough Island -
Issue 28 - June 2020
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Changes to meetings caused by coronavirus lockdown
News on the St Helena Cultural Centre
Governor Rushbrook – After One Year
The St Helena Governance Commission
St Helena Under Lockdown – Then and Now by Adam Sizeland
St Helena Welcome with a Difference – Bradley’s Quarantine
Titan Flight AWC001C Arrives at St Helena
The Garden Island by Donal McCracken
Book reviews:
Memories of a Childhood on Tristan da Cunha by Gill Kimber
St Helena Tales; More St Helena Tales by Geoffrey Martin
Rockfall Protection Construction Continues by Catherine Inglis
The Rockfall Fountain and its Replicas by Edward Baldwin
The Zulu Memorial by Edward Baldwin
Update on the RMS by Edward Baldwin
20th Anniversary of the Millennium Forest by Marina Peters
Green Turtles Nesting Attempts at Rupert’s Beach by St Helena National Trust
Life-long Connections with St Helena by John Firmin
The grave of Matthew Grimes at Thornton-le-Dale, Yorkshire
New Power Generation
RMS crew bet on the airport project
FoSH Publications -
Issue 27 - December 2019
Report on the Autumn MeetingDownload and View
Michael Binyon’s Talk – An Island for Our Times
The Website Development
Governor Rushbrook – After 100 Days on the Job
Governor Rushbrook - An open question: How do we want to Govern Ourselves?
New TDC Administrators
St Helena Research Institute Opens
Prosperous Bay Plain Invertebrate Survey by David Pryce
Solving St Helena’s Water Problems by Planting Endemics
The Remote Weathermen Charting the Climate Crisis by M. MacEacheran
Weather Data for May to September 2019
St Helena Tourism
St Helena's Storm Petrel may be endemic
Falklands Flights
Update on the Fibre Optic Cable
Discovery of the Charlie Boar Seamount
Life-long Connections with St Helena by Ingvar Backheus
Refurbishment of the War Memorial by Edward Baldwin
Update on the RMS by Edward Baldwin
Bona part-time: Napoleonic Impersonator Required on Island of St Helena
Around the World Voyage of the Herne Family: Plaque Unveiled
National Trust: The Honey Bee on St Helena -
Issue 26 - June 2019
Download and ViewReport on the AGM held at Oxford
AGM Meeting, talk on his personal Seven Wonders of St Helena by Simon Pipe
Edward Baldwin receives MBE.
Farewell from Governor Honan
Brian Frederick, a True Friend of St Helena
Miles Apart, 25 Years of Selling Books on the South Atlantic Islands
New Stamp Display by E. Baldwin
St Helena’s Tourist Numbers, A Subject of Controversy by Ian Mathieson
Jonathan, the World’s Oldest Land Animal at 187 Years as described by Guinness Book of Records
Governor Rushbrook’s Inauguration
Visit of Crude Oil Tanker Arafura
MV St Helena back in London in a new role
2019 Environmental Conference in Jamestown
Measuring Global Magnetism on St Helena by David Pryce
Getting My Wheels on the Ground (the travails of importing a long wheel-base Land Rover to St Helena) by David Pryce
The History and Re-Development of Rock Rose House by Henry Thorpe
A Journey to St. Helena, Home of Napoleon’s Last Days by Erica by Munkwitz & James L. Swanson
New Books
Auction News - The Melliss collection
Details of FoSH publications -
Issue 25 - December 2018
Report on the Autumn meetingDownload and View
Talk by Robin Woodruff entitled Art and Handicraft of the Prisoners from the Northern Cape
Dan Yon’s new film Mining Men: Legacies of St Helena in the Northern Cape
Meeting by members and Committee members with Governor Lisa Honan
Appointment of Dr Philip Rushbrook as Governor
Termination of Basil Read’s Contract to Operate the St Helena Airport by Edward Baldwin
Former RMS St Helena changes hands again by Edward Baldwin
Solomon’s Open Greenlands Department Store by Edward Baldwin
SAEx and Alcatel Submarine Networks begin survey for submarine cable network linking Southern Africa and Asia to the Americas
Michel Martineau’s MBE and French Ambassador’s Visit
The Hudson Lowe Exhibition at Plantation House
St Helena Visitors – Optimistic Data from the Statistics Department
The Longitude Problem: The Unification of Space and Time with Special Application to the Island of St Helena by Takeshi Sugimoto
Average Income from Full-time Employment Increases to £8,230 in 2016/17
St Helena’s Bottlenosed Dolphin’s Hunting Techniques by St Helena Tourism
St Helena and the Blue Belt Programme
All Saint Crew and Vessel – Cape to St Helena 2018
Auction News - A Rare St Helena Military Item in the Market Place by Edward Baldwin and Dave Marr -
Issue 24 - June 2018
Download and ViewReport on the AGM held at Oxford
Talk about Ascension and research into the behavior of sharks by Polly Burns
Ascension Island History by John Woolven-Allen
Sale and New Career of RMS St Helena by Edward Baldwin
St Helena Airport Shrugs off “World’s Most Useless” Tag by Andreas Spaeth and Flight News Update by Edward Baldwin
Number Resident on St Helena approach 5,000 (Stats Dept.)
A New Approach View of St Helena by Laurence Carter
Astronomer Jets in to Launch Star Gazing Event – SH Tourism
Country Shops of St Helena (parts 3 and 4) by Sharon Henry
Owen George: A Tribute
Another Luny painting on the Market
A Visit to St Helena by Laurence Carter
PASH Global to Provide Solar Energy for St Helena by SHG
Plastic Reaches St Helena Beaches by Leigh Morris of BLUE
A View from the Castle, David Smallman – Review by I. Mathieson
St Helena’s Diverse Islands Environment Conference – Abstract of Papers
St Helena’s Whale Sharks by St Helena Tourism
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan on BBC’s Mastermind -
Issue 23 - November 2017
Download and ViewReport on the autumn meeting and book launch
Review of A Bitter Draught
Waterwitch: A Warship and its Voyages by Andrew Pearson
SA 8131 – The St Helena Flight Experience by E. Baldwin
Easter Island: A Model for St Helena’s Tourism? I. Mathieson
Country Shops of St Helena (part 2) by Sharon Henry
St Helena Sea Life by Richard Hewitt
The Mantis St Helena Hotel Opens by Edward Baldwin
Napoleon’s Representative on Earth: M Martineau’s new book by John Tyrrell
Book Page by Ian Mathieson
St Helena’s Genealogical Database by Chris & Sheila Hillman
Fibre-Optic Cable is the Way to Go by Christian von der Ropp
St Helena’s Endemic Species by St Helena Tourism -
Issue 22 - Summer 2017
Download and ViewReport on the AGM and St Helena Cultural Centre
Measuring the Tide at St. Helena during the Past Two and a Half Centuries by P. Woodhead
Obituaries: Mure Smith, Dorothy Evans, Cathy Hopkins, Rodney Young.
St Helena’s Transport Crisis by Edward Baldwin.
Update on the Mantis Hotel by Edward Baldwin.
Country Shops of St Helena by Sharon Henry.
Country Shops / A New Master for the RMS
Sailing Ships at St Helena by Edward Baldwin.
Ladder Hill: An Ambitious Sewerage Scheme by Edward Baldwin
“Gunman” Strikes Again: The Airport Guns by Museum of St Helena
Charles Frater
New Books
St Helena National Trust Update
Luny Painting Unveiled at Museum of St Helena by Museum of St Helena
St Helena’s Prisoners by Barbara George -
Issue 21 - Autumn 2016
Download and ViewMatthew Woodthorpe, St Helena Cultural Centre
Andrew Bell, A New ship for St Helena: the Gestation of the RMS St Helena
Edward Baldwin, A Visit to the Airport
The Launch of the RMS by T Hearl, Luny painting, book
Review RMS St Helena by John Bryant
An English frigate at anchor off the island of St Helena by Thomas Luny.
New Exhibit at St Helena Museum
A New Hotel in Jamestown by Edward Baldwin
Historic Departure of the RMS from Tilbury, 14.6.2016 by Edward Baldwin
Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh 22 January 1957
A Childhood in Two Boats Village by John Woolven-Allan
Death of tortoise Myrtle. Wirebirds recover numbers
St Helena’s New Marine Protected Area / Restoring Bertrand’s Cottage. -
Issue 20 - Summer 2016
Download and ViewRMS in London
St Helena Cultural Centre – Progress
Paris Exhibition: Napoleon a Sainte-Helene
Friends Thames Cruise to Wish Farewell to the RMS
Governor Mark Capes: Final Report
New Governor Lisa Phillips
Flights and Ships: Airport Update
Wass Report on Child Safeguarding Issues
Climate Change. St Helena Cranefly
First Settlement of Ascension by John Woolven-Allen
Book reviews and Announcements
Jonathan’s New Diet / Ascension Marine Reserve
St Helena’s Population and Revenue Statistics
Insider’s Guide to St Helena: Basil George