Society news
  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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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. 

Society news  
  Tom Lines Remembers a Visit to St Helena with his Partner Roy Hayter  
  Kitching Papers now available on the Website
  Society Membership on the increase
  Membership payment methods
Roman Catholic and Baptist Data Added to Family History Database by Ian Bruce 
Fibre Optic Cable Progress 
Fungus Weevil found at Horse Point
Census 2021 – Preliminary Results 
Plantation Garden Party. 
Reaching Napoleon’s grave 60 years ago ny Richard Grainger
200th  Anniversary of Napoleon’s Death by E. Baldwin 
Travel to St Helena in the Time of Covid by E. Baldwin 
St Helena Olive Researcher Seeks Help 
Street Lighting in Jamestown by E. Baldwin 
200th  Anniversary of the Publication of Wathen’s Views of the Island of St Helena by Ian Mathieson  
Teutonic Hall 2021 by Addie Thomas 
A Foray Through My St Helena Memories by Manfred Rippich  
Napoleon’s Longwood Bedroom Key sells for £81,000 by M. Dancoisne-Martineau 
The Drifting Coffin by Josh Garner 
The Napoleonic Bicentenary Trust 
New Books Relating to St Helena 
  St Helena The Undivided Back Picture Post Cards 1900-1902 by Bernard Mabbett and Cliff Masters
  St Helena Small island: Napoleon’s Ultimate Mystery by Sergio Ghione 
  Softback publication of Distant Freedom: St Helena and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1840-1872 by Andrew Pearson 
  Saint Helena Tales, Vol 3 by Geoffrey Martin 
The Life and Times of Governor Sir Dermod Murphy by Richard Grainger 
Why a Tiny Island Created the Biggest Marine Sanctuary in the South Atlantic by Luke Fater 
FoSH Publications

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 

 

New Website boosts membership numbers
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

Report on the Autumn Meeting
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

Report 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

Report on the Autumn meeting
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

Report 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

Report 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