Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena
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Issue 52: 2023
Spider research on St Helena: past, present and future -- Daniella Sherwood and Liza Fowler
The archaeology and historic landscape of Lemon Valley -- Andrew Pearson
Slavery in early St Helena, part 3: the consolidation of slavery 1695-1730 -- Michael D, Bennett
Creating a Digital Past: St Helena and the Endangered Archives Programme -- Shelley Magellan-Wade, Aidan Plato, Radka Henry, Andrew Pearson and Helena Bennett
The One Hundred Men: on questions of race, identity and belonging -- Daniel Yon
Cumulative index issues 1-52 -
Issue 51: 2022
Andrew Pearson: EditorialDownload and View
Stephen Royle: Fernando de Noronha: A Brazilian St Helena?
Michael Bennett: Slavery in early St Helena, Part Two: the Barbadian Plantation System and the expansion of slavery, 1683-1694
Ian Bruce: The Discovery of St Helena
Andrew Pearson: Rupert's Valley and the Liberated Africans: a retrospective
David Taylor: Railways and rails of St Helena
James Wylor-Owen, Beth Taylor and Kenickie Andrews: A record of novel natural history observations from the first comprehensive period of visual marine surveying of St Helena's Marine Protected Area
Cumulative index from 1990 -
Issue 50 - 2021
Download and ViewColin Fox: Napoleon’s Coffin (was it partly made from a domestic mahogany table?)
Ian Bruce: Deceiving Bishop Welby (the story of two clergymen who tried to pull the wool over the Bishop's eyes)
Dr Michael D. Bennett: Slavery in Early St Helena, Part 1: The “Black Servant” System, 1659-1682
Richard Grainger: St Helena then and now: a personal view
Rev John Walker: St Helena as I saw it: 1886
Richard Grainger: Diplomatic Wireless Station, St Helena, Piccolo and Islanditis -
Issue 49 - 2020
Download and ViewDr Paul Murray: St Helena and the Irish Civil War
Ian Bruce: Black Oliver and the Dutch Invasion
Rev. David Hall: St Helena 1963 (appointed as a secondary school teacher, memories of life on the island)
Colin Fox: Two Governors: Robert Brooke and Robert Patton (two governors who separately aided British military operations with very different outcomes)
Father David Musgrave and Edward Baldwin: Flags over St Helena - An Overview
Colin Fox: Fernando de Noronha? (How this Brazilian island connects with St Helena) -
Issue 48 - 2019
Richard Grainger: Mixed Medical Memories of St Helena 1966-69Download and View
Sizakele Gumede: Maldivia House once belonged to the Natal Government of South Africa
Ian Bruce & John Turner: Lafitte’s Map (the first detailed map of Jamestown)
Colin Fox: Musophaga Rossae (description of new bird species named after Lady Eliza Ross of St Helena)
“Nauticus”: Phenomenon at St Helena (description of the violent effect of rollers in 1821)
Richard Grainger: St Helena and the Cross, Anglican church at Blue Hills and the Mutlah bell
Jane Hall (Ed): Plantation Notes
Ian Bruce: St Helena during the First World War
Sizakele Gumede: The French connection: visits to the graves of Napoleon and the Prince Imperial
Ian Bruce: The Origin of the name Castella
Colin Fox: The Reverend George Bennett
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Issue 47 - 2018
Ian Bruce: St Helena Lace and NeedleworkDownload and View
Bill Birch: The Billy Birch, The story behind the name
Colin Fox: Henry Russell, A Nabob's sojourn on St Helena
Margaret Rodenberg: St Helena's link to Cuba (through the liberated African slaves)
Ian Bruce: The SS Papanui (the final voyage and a suggestion that the fire on this and its sister ship had a common cause)
Ian Bruce: Boothby's Arrival (the dangers of landing before a wharf was built and whether the EIC's later occupation is attributable to Boothby -
Issue 46 - 2017
Maryanne O’Donnell: A Doctor for the people: Dr Ian ShineDownload and View
Ian Bruce: Alfred Mosely (Early 20th Century benefactor who unsuccessfully tried to set up a fish export industry despite plentiful catches and then campaigned to transport most of the population to California where they could seek better fortunes)
John Pinfold: A St Helena Seedling: the early history of the Salvation Army on the island.
S Morgan/J C Hillman: Alexander Frederick Charles Contest: A St Helena freed slave in Australia
R Stephen/Colin Fox: Extract from “Around the Atlantic” (WW2 memories of a radio telegraphist) -
Issue 45 - 2016
John Humphries: A Timely tributeDownload and View
Ian Bruce: The First Dozen Years: Description of the turbulent years 1900-1911
Dr JC & SM Hillman: John Hillman and Family
Colin Fox: Encounters with the slavers: Excerpts from the diary of Hamilton Laird 1849
Colin Fox: Napoleon Bonaparte POW
Heidi Bauer-Clapp: A Small Step: Honouring St Helena’s Liberated Africans -
Issue 44 - 2015
William Clark: William Clark's 20th Regiment RecollectionsDownload and View
Margaret Dyson: St Helena sergeant James Renton
Ian Bruce: St Helena Day - Why the traditional Discovery Date of 21 May is wrong
Susan O’Bey: A Place of Confinement
A Lady: A letter from a Lady
David Ranzan: An island of historical attraction: A young American Sailor’s visit to the island of St Helena
Colin Fox: Sir Stamford Raffles interview with Napoleon, Voyage of EIC Ship William Pitt to St Helena 1819 -
Issue 43 - 2014
Colin Fox: Mutiny on the Worcester (the Court case and its aftermath)Download and View
Lichen: Memories of St Helena (Originally published under the title “St Helena as it was sixty-five years ago”)
Colin Fox: Information ref. researching at the British Library (St Helena East Company records)
Colin Fox: Saul Solomon and the Margate Murder (a “foul murder” in 1786)
Ian Bruce and Nick Thorpe: William A Thorpe, 1842-1918 (a “most outstanding island-born businessman”)
John Tyrrell: The Legend of the “Slaves” of Maldivia (the source of this legend appeared in Governor Janisch’s Extracts from the St Helena Records)
Takeshi Sugimoto: The Historic Japanese Visitors to St. Helena (a literature survey)