St Helena Connection
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| Issue 1 - Autumn 2006 | |
| Latest News on the Airport - The Editor | |
| Welcome to the first edition - The Editor | |
| The Friends of St Helena (the committee, events, benefits of membership, forthcoming events, news) - The Editor | |
| Island News Digest - Vince Thompson | |
| Andrew Weir Shipping at the World Travel Market - Andrew Weir Shipping | |
| St Helena Island Society, Cape Town - Marilyn Crawford | |
| Ascension News - Vicky Wotton | |
| Saints on the Falklands (Airport Consultation & Saint’s construction business) - Susan Knipe | |
| News of Saints in the USA - Charmaine House | |
| St Helena Association (officers, announcements, news- Reading Sports 2006, death announcements, donations made by Association, events in 2007) - St Helena Association | |
| The 100 Men (talk and film by Dan Yon to members on the 21st October 2006) - Gail Thorpe | |
| St Helena Postcards (comprehensive catalogue being created) - The Editor | |
| An historical map of St Helena (illustrated map of island has been produced) - The Editor | |
| St Helena Connections (a list of St Helena-related societies and organisations with their interests, benefits, fees and website addresses) - The Editor | |
| News from the Tristan da Cunha Association - The Editor | |
| Book News (Vulcan 607 by Rowland White; RMS St Helena and the South Atlantic Islands by Robert A. Wilson; The Bennett Papers by Colin Fox; A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island by Alex Ritsema; Memoirs: North, South, East and West by Allan Crawford) - The Editor | |
| St Helena National Trust (protecting buildings, Witte Leeuw Salvage, the Flax Mill museum project, Overseas Territories Environment Programme and the wirebird project, participation of the Conservation Forum Conference at Jersey) - Cathy Hopkins | |
| Jamestown Museum (four exhibitions - A dot in the ocean; Vision of the Peaks; Art Show "Euphoria"; Preserving St Helena's Built Environment) - Lucy Caesar | |
| Return to St Helena (return to island after four years life in England) - Darrin Henry | |
| Issue 2 - Spring 2007 | |
| Departure of Two Close Friends of St Helena (death of Trevor Hearl and Tony Cross) - The Editor | |
| Friends of St Helena Elect First Saint Chairman (election of Pamela Ward) - The Editor | |
| The Passing of a Generation and a New Beginning (death of several other members including Geoffrey Guy, Joyce Thorpe and Allan Crawford) - The Editor | |
| The Friends of St Helena (the committee, events, forthcoming events, new members and membership) - The Editor | |
| Island News - Vince Thompson | |
| St Helena’s Commercial Representative in South Africa (profile of Adam Kossowski) - The Editor | |
| Longwood Relics in Bournemouth (auction of a wine cooler and an octagonal table at the Russell Cotes Museum) - Peter Lea | |
| Scotland Calling! (suggestion that Saints or people interested in St Helena living in northern Britain meet up) - Lynas Murdoch | |
| Ascension News (right of abode, land ownership and fiscal development blocked for the people of Ascension; 59,000 female turtle nesting on beaches; news of people) - Vicky Wotton | |
| Running St Helena What it Costs (Proposed aid package for 2007/08-2009/10) - The Editor | |
| Saints on the Falklands (births, wedding, uniformed Saints at the Queen's birthday parade) - Susan Knipe | |
| Saints in the USA - Charmaine House | |
| MBE for Rebecca Cairns-Wicks - The Editor | |
| Ethel Benjamin – A Life At Sea (working on the RMS and the replacement ship Centaur during the Falklands War) - Darrin Henry | |
| St Helena Connections (a list of St Helena-related societies and organisations with their interests, benefits, fees and website addresses) - The Editor | |
| Geoffrey Guy 1921-2006 (an obituary) - Gail Thorpe. | |
| Book News (Fernão Lopes - a South Atlantic ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Beau Rowlands; A Dutchman on Tristan da Cunha: The Quest for Peter Green by Sandra Kornet van Duyvenboden; Allan Crawford’s Memoirs - North South East & West by George Mann; Commemorative Publication to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of Tristan da Cunha by Richard Grundy) - The Editor | |
| Jamestown Flax Museum (expansion of small Museum display to the nearby Pipe Building in Back Way) - Edward Baldwin | |
| Photograph of Legco Meeting (chaired by Governor Guy in the late 1970s) - The Author | |
| 100th Voyage of the RMS (SHG celebration of the 100th voyage of the RMS with several presentations and the award of Certificates of Honour for services on the old RMS during the Falkland war) - The Editor | |
| Issue 3 - Autumn 2007 | |
| Governors Old and New in the News (appointment of Andrew Gurr as Governor; auction of Governor John Skottowe's portrait at Christies) - The Editor | |
| Friends Membership News (new members; deaths; membership) - The Editor | |
| Island Holidays Offers Fully Organised Holidays to St Helena (St Helena offered as a holiday destination; impressions of RMS and St Helena) - Libby Weir-Breen | |
| Island News - Vince Thompson | |
| The Saint Helena National Trust – Five Years On - Vince Thompson |
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| St Helena to Feature in UK Musical (plans to feature 'The Person Residing at Longwood' by Stephen M. Hunt) - The Editor | |
| Plantation House to Become an Hotel? (extract of a 1937 letter from Philip Gosse to the Colonial Office suggesting Plantation House was to large for Governors and should be converted into a hotel) - The Editor | |
| St Helena’s Built Heritage Project (conservation of island's older buildings and control of new developments) - Ben Jeffs | |
| Saints on the Falklands (25th anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands; tourism; people) - Susan Knipe | |
| Princess Royal Attends St Helena Diocesan Association - Diana Houghton | |
| The St Helena Association and Reading Sports - St Helena Association | |
| American Saint Visits the Island for the First Time (visit by Kyle Tingler) - Charmaine House | |
| Father Dale Bowers Interviewed by Darrin Henry - Darrin Henry | |
| RMS News - Alistair McLean | |
| St Helena’s Island Games Team Visits Rhodes - Jeremy Roberts | |
| Photograph - Singers at the at the Secondary Selective School - Bryan Heseltine | |
| Book News (St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha by Sue Steiner with updated text; For The Love of The Music: Capturing the Enthusiasm and Passion of the Saints by Emma-Jane Yon; Mary the Masked Booby by Tara Palemebe; A Little Piece of England by Andrew Gurr) - The Editor | |
| Progress at the Museum and Visitor Centre (Visitor centre to be established next to the museum; new exhibits) - Edward Baldwin | |
| Estella Lawrence Weds Iain Denholm on 18th August 2007 in Scotland - Estella Lawrence-Denholm | |
| Friends Autumn Meeting (presentation by Governor Gurr and talk by Tara Palemebe on South Atlantic conservation issues) - The Editor | |
| Issue 4 - Summer 2008 | |
| Friends’ AGM at Elveden Hall (25th AGM on the 17th May 2008; description of Elveden Hall; talk by Steve Royle on the early years of St Helena following its annexation by the East India Company in 1659) - The Author | |
| From the Editor (reflections on the changes at St helena over the past two decades and comments on the future) - Ian Mathieson | |
| Jamestown Cliff Stabilisation Project - Edward Baldwin | |
| Island News Digest November 2007 to April 2008 (wind turbines; impact of new Governor removing secrecy from Executive Council, communication, closure Half Tree Hollow School; Congolese stowaways cast onto life raft off island; European wasp; further collapse of High Knoll Fort; 10% increase in Brize Norton Air charges; 75 gumwood sapling planted at Prince Andrews; value for money evaluation of St Helena Airport contracts; arrival of Father Michael Griffith to serve Catholic worshippers) - Vince Thompson | |
| Progress With the New Visitor Centre (interim report on the building reconstruction and discoveries made during the work) - Edward Baldwin | |
| Death of Lord Beaumont (obituary) - The Editor | |
| Scientist Following in Darwin’s Footsteps (determining the radiological age of limpet shells and bird bones at St Helena) - Colin Lewis | |
| Chef’s Meals Fit for Royals (Jason Bellord given two-week work experience in Buckingham Palace's kitchens) - Petersfield Post/Derek Bellord | |
| Tristan Near Bankruptcy (Administrator warns that the cost of an ageing population, health and education is resulting in a mounting deficit which means reserves will be exhausted within a few years) - The Editor | |
| A New Set of Aerogrammes (set of six aerial photographs of St Helena will be released by the Post Office) - The Editor | |
| The Government Printer (photographs of the Government Print Shop in 1990) - The Editor, Photos by Nick Thorpe | |
| News From the USA – Reconnecting with One of Our Own! (meeting of Saints at Robertsville in Orlando, Florida) - Charmaine House | |
| RMS News (arrival of ship at Portland) - Alistair Maclean | |
| Interview with Alan Hudson, Chief Engineer - Darrin Henry | |
| Richard James International (relationship with South Atlantic island in the delivery of freight via the RMS and flights to Ascension) - Richard James International |
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| Book News (St Helena Then and Now by Michel Martineau; Curious Little World: A Self-Imposed Exile on St Helena by Rex Bartlett; A Voyage to Remember by Calvin Woodward; A Tour Through the Island of St Helena by Robin Castell; Glimpsing Utopia Tristan da Cunha 1937-38 by Cathrine Snyder) - The Editor | |
| News From the St Helena Association - The Author | |
| St Helena Tugs of War in 1979 - Photos from Bryan Heseltine’s collection) | |
| Issue 5 - Autumn 2008 | |
| Airport On or Off? (Autumn meeting on the 25th September 2008 in which Nigel Kirby, DFID's airport project manager, expressed uncertainty whether the project would gain ministerial approval) - The Editor | |
| Editorial (on the subject of the airport) - The Editor | |
| Reading Sports (The St Helena Association's annual get-together on August bank holiday) - The Editor | |
| Obituaries (Arnold Flagg, Bryan Heseltine, Anthea Pooley, Bery Patricia Orchard and Alexander Sylvanus Williams) - Charles Frater & The Editor | |
| St Helena's Top Model (Lisa-Jane Fowler one of 14 competitors in Living TV's Britain's Next Model) - Vilma Dawson-Goodey | |
| Ascension News (new island Council; two retirements; new Banana Bridge on Green Mountain) - Vicky Wotton | |
| Jamestown Rockfalls (damage to Baptist Church Hall, housing and Ladder Hill Road; rock stabilisation work above the wharf; Wharf Improvement Project) - Edward Baldwin | |
| Latest news on the Museum of St Helena's Visitor Centre - Edward Baldwin | |
| St Helena News Digest (census of rabbit population; lack of public participation with Legco and Exco; heavy rain; Ruperts Valley grave excavations; future island needs for water, electricity and roads reviewed; increased electricity charges; survey of all plant species and rediscovery of tuft sedge; increased RMS fare, celebrate 30 years service; rockfall; sinking of Portiz, the last ocean-going fishing boat; participation in Commonwealth Youth Games; Jacob's Ladder voted top "wonder of St Helena"; census results) - Vince Thompson | |
| Tammy Williams, recording artist (interview) - Sharon Henry | |
| Book News (The Faraway Island by Dianne Hofmeyr; Napoleon and St Helena: on the Island of Exile by Johannes Willms; St Helena: A Photographic Treasury 1856-1947; One Hundred Mean by Dan Yon [DVD]; The heartbeat of St Helena by Elizabeth Hoveson and Lothar Kuter [DVD]) - The Editor | |
| Napoleon and St Helena: On the Island of Exile by Johannes Willms (book review) - Sarah Wheeler / The Guardian | |
| James Miranda Barry story to be featured in new film - The Editor | |
| SHG Loses Two Prominent Members (retirement of Pamela Lawrence as Chief Education Officer and Ivy Ellick as Chief Health and Social Services Officer) - St Helena Government | |
| Shipping News from AWS (new web site; 30 year anniversary of the RMS) - Andrew Weir Shipping | |
| More Airport Photos (photographic visuals showing the likely appearance of the view across Deadwood; the northern end of the runway; the proposed jetty and temporary wharf at Ruperts Bay) - The Editor | |
| Issue 6 - Spring 2009 | |
| Airport Postponed, Liberated Slaves Take the Limelight (DfiD announce a pause and then a consultation on airport; summary of AGM on 16th May, including talk about excavation of liberated African graves) - The Editor |
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| Editorial (reflections on the impact of liberated African slaves at St Helena) - The Editor |
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| Chairman’s Report and Accounts May 2009 (review of past year; Statement Of Receipts and Payments 2008/09) - Pamela Ward Pearce | |
| Obituary John Massingham - Basil George |
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| Obituary John Noakes and Elizabeth Gilpin - Pamela Ward Pearce | |
| Holiday of a Lifetime (return to St Helena after nearly 50 years) - Cyril and Deanne Thomas | |
| Airport Project Goes to Consultation - The Editor | |
| A Look Back at the Thornton Affair (review with photos of street demonstrations at the time, of the controversy in which Tony Thornton, a South African citizen who acquired a majority stake in Solomon & Co, was eventually barred from the island) - Richard Grainger | |
| High Knoll Fort (update of gradual collapse of building structure with a brief history of the structure) - Edward Baldwin | |
| News from the Museum of St Helena (description of Visitor Centre; St Helena Images Project in which a series of photographs, videos, and interviews were collected in 2008; development of a Scrap Book of St Helena to stimulate the interest of young children) - Lucy Caesar and Edward Baldwin | |
| Reading Sports Update (further updates on last year's meeting) - The Editor | |
| Jack Thorpe-Yon – Chasing a Dream (selection as a county cricket player) - Peter Thorpe-Yon | |
| Book News (St Helenian English: Origins Evolution and Variation by Daniel Schreier) - The Editor | |
| Inhuman Traffic: Excavations of the Liberated African Cemeteries at Ruperts Valley - Dr Andrew Pearson | |
| Interview with Maureen Jonas (includes details of Farm Lodge Country House Hotel) - Darrin Henry | |
| Darwin and St Helena (description of Darwin's analysis of St Helena's geology) - Trevor Hearl and Ian Mathieson | |
| Jonathan, Page 3 Pin-Up (review of national newspaper speculation that Jonathon the tortoise is the the oldest living creature in the world) - The Editor | |
| St Helena Association (over £6,000 donated to island) - St Helena Association | |
| News from the Falklands & Ascension - Susan Knipe | |
| Issue 7 - Autumn 2009 | |
| Friends Autumn Meeting (description of talk by Dan Yon about emigration to South africa between 1850-1948) - The Editor | |
| Editorial (change in magazine content) - The Editor | |
| Meet the Friends Committee - The Editor | |
| Girl Guiding St Helena (brief story of guiding since 1921) - Pamela Ward Pearce and David Ward | |
| St Helena Connections Discovered (origins of Thomas Henry Gardiner) - John Gardiner | |
| Solo Circumnavigators and St Helena: No 1 Joshua Slocum - Ian Mathieson | |
| Business Growth and Development on St Helena (description of the St Helena Development Agency [SHDA]) - Mercia George | |
| Al Pacino for St Helena? (magazine speculation that the actor will play the lead part in the proposed film adaptation of the book "Betsy and the Emperor" by Staton Rabin) - The Editor | |
| 150th Anniversary of the Arrival of St Helena’s first Bishop (re-enactment of the Bishop Piers Claughton's arrival in 1859, re-enacted by Bishop John Salt, landing at the Steps and being conveyed into Town from the Wharf) - Edward Baldwin | |
| A Tribute to Terry Spens on her 90th Birthday - Ivy Ellick | |
| Museum of St Helena Visitor Centre Update - Edward Baldwin | |
| St Helena Association (Reading Sports Day; Young Persons Award 2009) - St Helena Association | |
| Jack Thorpe-Yon Chasing a Dream, part 2 (selection as a county cricket player) - Peter Thorpe-Yon | |
| St Helena Fifty Years Ago – Extracts from St Helena Wirebird (topics featured in magazine throughout 1959) - The Editor | |
| Interview with Gareth Drabble - From Prince Andrew School to Bedfordshire University - Darin Henry | |
| New Books (Napoleon’s Poisoned Chalice: the Emperor and his Doctor’s on St. Helena by Dr Martin Howard; Napoleon’s Britons and the St Helena Decision by Paul F. Brunyee; The Apocalypse of Napoleon: His Last Years from Waterloo to St Helena: A Medical Biography by Dr Robert Richardson; Down Memory Lane: Recollections of a Wandering Missionary by Father Brendan Sullivan) - The Editor | |
| Rupert’s Valley Archaeological Project: an update (post-excavation research includes osteological study of skeletons to learn more about the age, sex, diet, injuries, level of malnutrition, deseases and place of origin in Africa) - Andrew Pearson | |
| Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A., 1804-1886 (sale of paintings featuring views of St Helena) - The Editor | |
| Sale of Seale’s Geognosy of St Helena (auction sale of Philip Gosse's copy of book; sale at same auction of Frederick Miller's watercolours of St Helena) - The Editor | |
| St Helena Christmas Quiz - Laurence Carter | |
| Issue 8 - Spring 2010 | |
| Banks Battery Further Damaged During 2010 Roller Season - Barbara George and Ed Thorpe | |
| Editorial - The Editor | |
| Report on AGM (Chairman’s Address; talk about the St Helena National trust by Ben Jeffs including the restoration of High Knoll Fort) - The Editor | |
| Letters - Pam Cowan & Ivy Ellick | |
| Meeting of the St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society (SHATPS) - The Editor | |
| Robert Mainwaring Legacy to the Friends - The Editor | |
| The St Helena Association (committee members and activities) - St Helena Association | |
| St Helena’s Rollers of 1846 (an account of the destruction of several ships as a result of Rollers in 1846) - Anon | |
| The Women’s Corona Society on St Helena - Rosemary Brown | |
| Solo Circumnavigators and St Helena: No 2 Harry Pidgeon - Ian Mathieson | |
| Tea with Jessica March - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| The St Helena Heritage Construction Skills Project - Edward Baldwin | |
| Michael John Clancy 1949-2010 (an obituary) - John Price | |
| Bob Johnston Remembered (an obituary) - Charles Frater | |
| More Farewells (John Newman 1929-2010; Clive Warren 1945-2010) - Ivy Ellick and Basil George | |
| Ascension Island – A Long Way From Home (impressions of Ascension by Simon and Caroline Croson) - Simon Croson | |
| Extracts from Roots and Shoots Exhibition (Darrin Henry's exhibition in Jamestown of photographs themed on Saints accompanied by a written interview about a facet of their lives) - Darrin Henry | |
| Book Page (Terrible Exile: the Last Days of Napoleon on St Helena by Brian Unwin; The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction by D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, E. W. Schneider and J. P. Williams) - The Editor | |
| St Helena features in Radio 4 Play (plot revolves around the invasion of St Helena by the Angolan Navy) - The Editor | |
| Tortoise Trouble (review of controversy regarding the welfare of St Helena's tortoise population) - The Editor | |
| St Helena’s Population (further figures from the 2008 census) - The Editor | |
| A New Fire Engine for St Helena (donation of fire engine by Dorset Fire Service) - Edward Baldwin | |
| A POW Pistol Pen Holder (memorabilia originating from one of the Boer POW camps on St Helena) - Robin Woodruff | |
| The Queen Mary 2 Visit (photographs of ship's arrival in March 2010) - Ed Thorpe | |
| Issue 9 - Autumn 2010 | |
| A New Look for Lower Jamestown – EXCO Unveils its Plans - The Editor | |
| Editorial - The Editor | |
| Society Matters (resignation of Alexander Schulenburg from Committee and editor of Wirebird; appointment of Colin Fox as editor of Wirebird and Ian Bruce to manage web site) - The Editor | |
| A New Look at St Helena Association (new Committee members) - The Editor | |
| Napoleon and His Time on St Helena (summary of talks given by four speakers at the Autumn meeting in October 2010) - The Editor | |
| Saving Napoleon’s Residence on Saint Helena – An Appeal - Professor Peter Hicks | |
| Solo Circumnavigators and St Helena: No 3 Alain Gerbault - Ian Mathieson | |
| Angela Wigglesworth Remembers Meeting George Benjamin - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| The St Helena National Trust Strategic Vision - Edward Baldwin | |
| Edmond Halley and St Helena (description of Halley's astronomical work and clearance of site at Halley's Mount most probably used for observations) - John C Brandt | |
| The Denzil Ibbetson Sale in New Zealand (auction of artefacts dating back to Denzil Ibbetson, who was stationed at St Helena during the period of Napoleon's incarceration) - Colin Fox | |
| Exploring your St Helena Ancestry (use of some less well know sources including The Times Online, The London Gazette, Google Books and India Office records) - Colin Fox | |
| Confessions of a Napoleonic Blogger - John Tyrrell | |
| A Flag for Ascension (suggested designs for the island which does not yet have its own flag and by default still flies the Union flag) - The Editor, sourced from The Islander | |
| Experts rediscover plant thought extinct for 60 years (rediscovery of the endemic parsley fern Anogramma ascensionis on Ascension) - The Editor | |
| Durer’s Rhinoceros: the First Recorded Animal to Visit St Helena (arrival of an Indian rhinoceros at St Helena on a Portuguese ship in 1515) - The Editor and Beau Rowlands | |
| Airport News (DfID make surprising announcement that funding will be provided for the construction of an airport on St Helena subject to four conditions) - The Editor | |
| Photograph of Car No 1 (an Austin Seven imported in 1929 by Homfry Welby Solomon) - Charles Frater | |
| St Helena Fifty Years Ago – Extracts from St Helena Wirebird - The Editor | |
| Book Page (Four Years on St Helena by Lynas Murdoch; Sainte-Hélène: La Captivité, la Maladie, la Mort, et les Médecins autour de Napoléon by Albert Benhamou) - The Editor | |
| The Jamestown Wharf Improvement Project - Edward Baldwin | |
| St Helena at Auction (sundry items recently auctioned including three Chinese rice paper painting of St Helena views, a Melliss first edition and Read's 1815 map of the island) - The Editor | |
| St Helena Christmas Quiz - Laurence Carter | |
| Issue 10 - Spring 2011 | |
| High Knoll Reopens (reopening marked by dramatic photos taken from a helicopter) - The Editor | |
| Editorial - The Editor | |
| Society Matters (at Kenwood House on 21st May 2011; new web site launched; next meeting at the Victory Club on the 29th October; donation and participation at the reopening of High Knoll Fort; talk about the emancipation of St Helena's slaves and about archaeological discoveries at Lemon Valley and Ruperts Valley) - The Editor | |
| Shape (St Helena's Active Participation in Enterprise) - The Editor and Basil George | |
| Circumnavigators and St Helena: No 4 Captain Voss - Ian Mathieson | |
| The XX - Talented Newcomers to the Music Scene with St Helena Links (success of music group that includes a second generation St Helenian, Oliver Sim) - David Ward | |
| A Field Guide to St Helena's Plant Life (imminent publication of a new guide to St Helena's endemic and imported plants) - Phil Lambdon | |
| St Helena National Trust opens Heart Shaped Waterfall Trail - Edward Baldwin | |
| Celebrating the Rediscovery of the St Helena Ebony (plant rediscovered by George Benjamin in 1980; includes photographs of ebony-themed art by Michel Dancoisne-Martieau, Angela Price and Iris Fowler) - Edward Baldwin | |
| Is St Helena's Climate Changing? (Antarctica's ozone hole may be resulting in wetter weather at St Helena) - The Editor | |
| Shipwreck at Tristan da Cunha - The Editor | |
| Ascension Island Another Green World: Like Easter Island, Ascension has lessons for the planet - cheerful ones (reforestation of Green Mountain) - Abridged from the Economist, 16th December 2010 | |
| A Lock of Napoleon's Hair Sold at Auction - The Editor | |
| Book Page (The St Helena Volcanoes by Ian Baker; A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 by Alex Ritsema; What's Cooking on St Helena? by the Ladies Craft Group) - The Editor | |
| Unthinkable? Banishing Tyrants to Exile - a formal system to lure tyrannical has-beens away from their nations is needed (suggestion that St Helena would be an ideal place to revive the practice of banishing tyrants to remote islands) - The Editor and Editorial from The Guardian on 9th April 2011 | |
| Major Moss M. C. - one of St Helena's Finest Sons (a brief biography) - David Marr | |
| St Helena the most extraordinary place on earth (description of St Helena's Tourism Project) - Mike Dean | |
| Issue 11 - Autumn 2011 | |
| Announcement that St Helena Airport will be built - The Editor | |
| Obituary Terry Spens 1919-2011, Founding Chairman of the Friends - The Editor | |
| Editorial - The Editor | |
| Society Matters (Autumn Meeting at the Victory Club; description of talks given - Dr Phil Lambdon on St Helena's vegetation and Dr Ian Baker on the island's volcanic geology; introduction of a recording system of talks at meetings). - The Editor | |
| Terry Spens 1919 - 2011 - A Tribute to our Founding Chairman (Biography) - The Editor, Andrew Corbett and Ivy Ellick | |
| St Helena's New Governor, Mark Capes - Editor | |
| Falkland Island Tourist Board forecast 64,000 visitors in 2011. - Merco Press | |
| Circumnavigators and St Helena: No 5: Roger & Edith Strout - Ian Mathieson | |
| Airport News (some details of the Memorandum of Understanding) - The Editor | |
| Obituary: Sharon Wainwright, 1960 - 2011 - Pamela Ward Pearce | |
| Michel Dancoisne-Martineau: A St Helena Passion (An Interview) - Irene Delage | |
| One Last Effort for the Emperor's Home (Report on the progress made in collecting funds to restore and save Longwood House) - Thierry Lentz | |
| MBE for Patsy Flagg - Pamela Ward-Pearce | |
| 50-Year Commemoration with Pictures from the Illustrated London News of the Tristan da Cunha Volcano Eruption and Evacuation of the Community, October 1961 - The Illustrated London News | |
| Jamestown, St Helena Wharf Improvements, Phase 2 - Edward Baldwin | |
| Centenary of the Wreck of the SS Papanui (description of the event and of exhibits at the Jamestown Museum) - Edward Baldwin | |
| St Helena and the Hideaway Tour (description of tour organised in collaboration with Magma Tours learning about its geology, vegetation,avifauna and history) - Colin Lewis | |
| St Helena Fifty Years Ago - Extracts from St Helena Wirebird (summary of events on the island in 1961) - Ian Mathieson | |
| St Helena Christmas Quiz - Laurence Carter | |
| The Book Page (Chroniques de Sainte-Helene by Michel Dancoisne-Martineau; Napoleon & I or the Significant Miss Fanny Mitchell by Robert Shelley (Robert Richardson); That Curious Fellow Captain Basil Hall, RN by James McCarthy; William Burchell 1781-1863 St Helena 1805-1810 by Robin Castell) - The Editor | |
| St Helena at Auction - The Editor | |