The St Helena Connection
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Issue 36: June/July 2024
Cumulative Index, issues 1-36
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
Writing a book is a lot of work (Joe Hollins) -
Issue 34: June 2023
EditorialDownload and View
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
EditorialDownload and View
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
Book: Napoleon's Garden Island by D. P. McCracken (reviewed by Edward Baldwin) -
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).
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Issue 30 - June 2021
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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
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Issue 29 - December 2020
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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
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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
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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