Wirebird magazine
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| Issue 1 - Spring 1990 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| The Launching of the new RMS St Helena - Dorothy Evans | |
| Collecting "St Helena" Part 1 (stamp collecting) - Robert C. Deakin | |
| The Plantation Poltergeist (ghosts at Plantation House) - Charles and Kim Dixon | |
| The Plight of the St Helena Olive - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Not the Prince of Wales (memories of a survivor from the torpedoed S.S. “City of Cairo”) - Douglas Quantrill | |
| Book Review: “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse (New Edition 1990) - Tony Cross | |
| St Helena's Day Address 1989 (the first broadcast from St Paul's Cathedral, St Helena, on BBC's World Service) - Lilian Crowie | |
| History in Postcards - Clifford J. Masters | |
| Issue 2 - Autumn 1990 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| St Heleniana in the royal collection (island items displayed at the 1990 “Royal Miscellany” exhibition) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| The Deaf Boys’ Project - Owen A. George | |
| Collecting St Helena Part 2 - The First Stamp (stamp collecting) - Robert C. Deakin | |
| St Helena of Colchester - Clarke Chapman | |
| The Wirebird: Past, present and future (article about the last surviving endemic bird) - Dr. Neil McCulloch | |
| Photographs of town and country 1962 - Members of Frost-Frater Film Unit | |
| Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II - Captain H.F. Driver | |
| The mahogany table mystery - a Napoleonic legend from St Helena (use of mahogany table for coffin) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Wahoo! (St Helena’s fish) - Tony Cross | |
| “St Helena Deserves Support” - Address to the A.G.M. Of “The Friends” 1990 - Sir Bernard Braine | |
| News of the Friends - Tony Cross | |
| Photograph, Garrison Band Concert - Captain H. F. Driver | |
| Issue 3 - Spring 1991 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Correspondence - correction to Autumn 1990 editorial - Captain H. F. Driver | |
| Return to St Helena - “A Short Term Expert” alias “The Glass Man” (description of St Helena visit) - Ken Harwood | |
| The Wirebird (a poem) - Dulcie Robertson | |
| Queen's Graduate's Memorial in St Helena (article about Dr W. J. J. Arnold) - Dr. Stephen Royle | |
| R.M.S. St Helena Island - Terence Holmes | |
| Collecting St Helena Part 3 (stamp collecting) - Robert C. Deakin | |
| Jonathan of Saint Helena (a description of St Helena’s ancient tortoise) - Sir James Harford | |
| Hall's Diary 1885-6 (Extract from a diary of a voyage from Australia describing visit to St Helena) - Mr Hall of Oxford | |
| Commodore Perry at St Helena in 1853 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Random Recollections - Captain H. F. Driver | |
| Official opening of Prince Andrew school library - Extract from St Helena News | |
| Issue 4 - Winter 1991 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Home once more (description of fifth home visit to St Helena) - Dulcie Robertson | |
| A Saint in Sussex (description of Pat Nichols’ woodworking skills at Rotherfield Hall) - Elizabeth Gocher | |
| The liberation of slaves in St Helena, Part 1 - George A. Lewis, M.B.E. | |
| Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II) - Captain H.F. Driver | |
| The enthronement of the Rt. Rev'd John Ruston OGS as 13th Bishop of St Helena in the cathedral Church of St Paul on Sunday 14th April 1991 - Gillian Jones | |
| Cardiff, 8th June 1991 (a visit to the RMS St Helena) - Tony Cross | |
| Book Review: “A Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Sir George Bingham KCB - Pamela McClintock | |
| St Helena and South Atlantic books in print 1991 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Book Review (Supplement): “The Emperor’s Last Stand, A Journey to St Helena” by Julia Blackburn - Tony Cross and Elizabeth Gocher | |
| Issue 5 - Spring 1992 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews): “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| A visit to St Helena in 1972 - Edward Hibbert | |
| Meeting St Helena’s water demands - Ian Mathieson | |
| The last voyage (description of the destruction of the Papanui by fire in 1911) - 'Tony Cross | |
| Wirebirds, donkeys and you - a talk broadcast on Radio St Helena 8th March 1972 ( description of the wirebird) - Arthur Loveridge | |
| Island school thirty years ago - a former pupil reminisces - Elizabeth Thurston née Cross | |
| The liberation of slaves in St Helena - Part 2 - George A. Lewis, M.B.E | |
| Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II) - Captain H.F. Driver | |
| Review: St Helena South Atlantic Ocean, a video by Charles and Julia Frater - Tony Cross | |
| Obituary: Mrs Doreen Ogborn - Owen A. George | |
| Issue 6 - Autumn 1992 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| A meteoric career: James Francis Homagee, 1846-1919 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Random recollections - the other Briars (St Helena’s Briars and its Australian namesake) - Captain H.F. Driver | |
| Fernao Lopes - St Helena's first settler - An English translation of the original account - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| Obituary: The Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan 1920-1992, Bishop of St Helena 1979-1985 - Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 1992 | |
| The funeral Of Bishop Cannan - Owen George | |
| The story of the S.S. Papanui - Continued (extracts from “The Wirebird”, 1957) - Tony Cross | |
| Book Review: “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan - David Young | |
| The Colchester connection (associations between Colchester and St Helena) - Clarice Chapman | |
| News: Renewal of Curnow Shipping’s contract to provide shipping service to St Helena; Death of Mrs Hugh Crallan - Tony Cross | |
| Issue 7 - Spring 1993 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Following Ted Cannan’s funeral, a letter - K. A. Harwood | |
| Obituary: Mr Edward Hibbert (postal historian) and Mr Tony Cross (surgeon) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Thoughts on the “Papanui” articles - K. A. Harwood | |
| Darwin’s island - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| My fourth visit to the island - Dorothy Evans | |
| Oswell Blakeston visits the island in 1956 - Max Chapman | |
| Book Review: “Exploring St Helena: A Walker's Guide” by Ian Mathieson and Laurence Carter - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Issue 8 - Autumn 1993 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| U.K. organisations with St Helena interests: The Friends of St Helena; The St Helena Link Committee; The St Helena Diocesan Association; The St Helena Association (UK) - Owen George | |
| The Huguenots of St Helena - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Random recollections - the fall of a giant (felling of the largest tree on St Helena during the 2nd World War) - H. F. Driver | |
| The Atlantic colonies (an analysis of island colonies in the North and South Atlantic) - Steve Royle | |
| Rare “sergeants' peninsula marks (badges awarded to sergeants guarding Napoleon who served in the Peninsular war) - Tom Riordan (Lone Sapper) | |
| Issue 9 - Spring 1994 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Obituary: Sir James Harford - Daily Telegraph, 29 November 1993 | |
| Obituary: Sir James Harford - Brian Gresty | |
| Book Reviews: “Seasoned Tales” by Geoffrey Stamp; “St Helena” by Kenneth Bain - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| A debate in the House of Lords, 1 February 1994 (opportunities for work, citizenship, right of abode and access) - Hansard |
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| Book Review: “Schooling in the South Atlantic islands” by Dorothy Evans - Tony Cross | |
| Issue 10 - Autumn 1994 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Samuel Hopewell and St Helena - John Prince Hopewell, F.R.C.S. | |
| St Helena, an island of shopkeepers? (An analysis of the proliferation of retailers, wholesalers and traders on an island with a constrained economy) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Obituary: a tribute to the late Edward Charles Brooks, O.B.E - Owen A. George | |
| Three prisoners from the Persian Gulf - George A. Lewis, M.B.E. | |
| Louisa's soldier (biography of Louisa Howes following her marriage to Thomas Abrahart, a soldier) - Derek A. Bell | |
| Treasure Trove - St Helena's Day 1994 (discovery of watercolour paintings of Longwood house and Napoleon’s tomb) - Tony Cross | |
| British army engineers on St Helena 1816-1821 - T.M.J. Riordan | |
| Fairport (description of a four-masted barque and its connection to St Helena) - Tony Cross | |
| “From our own correspondent - St Helena” (BBC Radio 4 broadcast on 27 January 1994) - Mike Thomson | |
| From The Editor's Post Bag: Ian Mathieson on the Ascension Castaway story in Issue 1; St Helena Citizenship Commission Report - Tony Cross | |
| South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996) - Tony Cross | |
| Issue 11 - Spring 1995 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| It all began with Halley's Comet (how work at Royal Observatory led to an interest in Edmond Halley and, in turn, to joining Friends of St Helena) - Clarice Chapman | |
| Book Reviews: “St Helena Lifeline” by Ronnie Eriksen; “The First St Helena” by Barbara B. Montgomerie; “South Atlantic Haven” by Ken Denholme - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| What are they doing here? (Regimental and ecclesiastical records for St Helena found at the Royal Army Museum, Chelsea) - Derek Bell | |
| John Bailey - an obituary - Dorothy Evans, M.B.E | |
| Some surprising St Helena connections (discovery of Governor Wilks’ memorial tablet at the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair and further revelations about the Wilks family) - David Holt | |
| Rescuing St Helena 's incunabula (saving some of the first books printed on St Helena from being sold to an American dealer) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Assassination plot (background to the imprisonment of three Bahrain dissidents at St Helena - H.V. Mapp | |
| St Helenian treasures (record of St Helenian treasures owned by members of Friends) - Tony Cross | |
| South Atlantic islands seminar (description of meeting between government representatives, education departments, UK consultants and others at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education) - Dorothy Evans, M.B.E. | |
| Cecil Maggott - custodian of records (commentary on his contribution following thirty years employment at St Helena’s archives) - Brian Smith | |
| Earwig stamps (the giant earwig and other endemic insects to be featured on a new issue of stamps) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Issue 12 - Autumn 1995 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| A tribute to Gilbert Martineau - Geoffrey Guy, C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E. | |
| The facts behind the flax (use of St Helena’s flax in research to make novel textiles - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| The real shape of St Helena (new bathometric data reveals St Helena’s shape beneath the ocean) - David Holt | |
| The restoration of St James tower clock - Owen George | |
| Wilberforce Arnold - St Helena colonial surgeon 1903-1925 (biography) - Stephen Royle and the late Tony Cross | |
| Two members honoured (Allan Crawford and Trevor Hearl awarded Honary Life Membership of the Friends) - Tony Cross | |
| Some memories of 1962 (recollections of visit to St Helena in 1962) - Charles B. Frater | |
| St Helena's early Baptists - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| St Helena's soldiers (collation of a databank of military history and personnel of the island’s troops) - Derek A. Bell | |
| Issue 13 - Summer 1996 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Extracts from “A voice from St Helena” 1822 - Barry E. O'Meara | |
| Extracts from “A naturalist’s voyage around the world" - Charles Darwin | |
| Diary of a passenger on the “Seagull” on her maiden voyage from South Africa, 1866 - Anon | |
| Maldivia in the spotlight (details of Maldivia House) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| An English ship at St Helena, 1617 (details of an early landing by Captain William Keeling) - Brian Smith | |
| Obituary: A tribute to the late Louisa Georgina Till, matron - Owen A. George | |
| Early pictorial news coverage (a summary of all known early pictorial images of St Helena in the news media) - Tony Cross and Trevor Hearl | |
| The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society publish a 20th Anniversary anthology of articles - SHATPS | |
| Censorship St Helena-style (an analysis of government control over the island’s news media) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| St Helena diary, part 1 (recording a visit in 1961/2, being part of a small group making the film “Island of St Helena”) - Jean Johnston | |
| Issue 14 - Autumn 1996 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| St Helena diary, part 2 (recording a visit in 1961/2, being part of a small group making the film “Island of St Helena") - Jean Johnston | |
| When penal reform was on trial at St Helena (a history of Victorian penal policy on the island) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| From the editor's post bag: From Ian Mathieson (additional images of St Helena in the news media to those listed in Issue 14); from Pam McLintock (description of an earthquake at St Helena in 1817 - Tony Cross | |
| How did Napoleon die? A review of some new books on the subject (“Assassination at St Helena Revisited” by Ben Weider and Sven Forschufvud; “The Fall of Napoleon” by David Hamilton-Williams; “Jack Juggler and the Emperor’s Whore” by John Arden - Ian Mathieson | |
| Ascension Island's odd man out (forward to a critique by Canon Nicholas Turner of “The Queer Dutchman” published in 1994 by an author using the pen name “C. Adler) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| St Helena - beacon of hope (description of the sinking of S.S. City of Cairo in 1942) - Fraser Simm | |
| The Napoleon I collection of the late Mr Allan Lazarus (description of 35 lots by Sotheby’s, several relating to St Helena) - Ian Mathieson | |
| St Helena’s watercolours at Christie’s (description of two paintings of St Helena to be sold by auction) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Book Review: “A Guide to the Manuscript Sources for the History of St Helena” by Brian S. Smith - Tony Cross | |
| A sad story (Tesco's canned tuna from St Helena rapidly withdrawn due to cost/supply problems) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Magazine Insert: Typescript of newspaper coverage of St Helena during April/May 1997, including reports of “riots”. These arose from an article in the Financial Times written by Angela Wigglesworth on the 8th March 1997 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Issue 15 - Spring 1997 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| To St Helena - Christmas 1996, part 1 (letter to Charles and Julia Frater describing island visit) - Bob Johnston | |
| Book reviews: Reprint of Hugh Crallan’s Report, “Listing and Preservation of Buildings of Architectural Interest”; “St Helena - Preserving the Island’s Historic Buildings” by Alan Cheetham - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Book Review: “My Napoleon” by Catherine Brighton - Tony Cross | |
| Alexander The Rat - F. W. Alexander, Chief Censor, Deadwood Camp, St Helena - Stephen Royle | |
| St Helena - an official report from 1927 - HMSO | |
| South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996) - Tony Cross | |
| Issue 16 - Autumn 1997 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Green light for the 2002 appeal! (Friends’ support of the Museum Improvement Project) - Terry Spens | |
| Well Dressing at Wormhill, Derbyshire (ceremony blessing well featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, St Helena) - Geoffrey Guy | |
| Address given by at the well dressing ceremony, 24th August 1997 - Andrew Bell | |
| General election (St Helena) commentary 1997 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Results of St Helena general election 1997 - Tony Cross | |
| When St Helena trembles (earthquake activity on the island) - David Holt | |
| Joao Da Nova and the lost carrack (correct rendering of Da Nova’s name and the truth behind the legend that Da Nova lost a carrack on the island) - Alexander Hugo Schulenburg | |
| Book review - “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha” by Alan Day - Tony Cross | |
| Sixth visit to St Helena, July 1997 - Dorothy Evans | |
| Getting “romantic St Helena” out of the doldrums (commentary on the House of Commons debate on the 22nd January 1997) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Operation Raleigh - the experiences of two St Helenians (student projects experienced in Zimbabwe) - Dorothy Evans | |
| St Paul's Cathedral, St Helena - an architectural footnote (design and construction of the island’s largest country church) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| South Atlantic Triangle, Part 2 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996) - Tony Cross | |
| Book review: “St Helena, South Atlantic Island” by Helmut and Alexander Schulenburg - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Issue 17 - Spring 1998 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| An 18th century account of St Helena (circa 1795), Transcribed by H. F. Driver - Rev. Thomas Bankes | |
| A longer holiday on St Helena (two-month holiday in 1997) - Mure Smith | |
| A special report of a 1997 visit to Diana's Peak national park illustrated from a video made at the time - Charles Frater | |
| Memories of the St Helena coastal battery R.A., 1941-1943 - William Akam | |
| “You’ve got to grind them down” - the Boer prisoner of war camps on St Helena, 1900-1902 - Stephen A. Royle | |
| Items from local newspapers of interest to Friends - “Islanders meet Lifesavers” at Frenchay Hospital Bristol / “Joint charity effort sends minibus to remote St Helena" - Bristol Evening Post/ Truro & District Packet | |
| Obituaries: Alison Bevan nee Ogborn / The Right Reverend Edmund Capper - Owen George/The Daily Telegraph | |
| Good news from Bridgewater College (Honorary Doctorate awarded to Dorothy Evans) - Tony Cross | |
| Issue 18 - Autumn 1998 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| Obituary: A tribute to the late Peter Theodore Joshua - Owen A. George | |
| Radio St Helena (broadcasting on the island since 1967) - Manfred Rippich | |
| A visit to Tristan Da Cunha (describing a visit in 1998) - Ian Mathieson | |
| The Museum Project of the St Helena Heritage Society (update on project) - Terry Spens | |
| To St Helena - Christmas 1996, part 2 (letter to Charles and Julia Frater describing island visit) - Bob Johnston | |
| Cutting the cake (photo, the 10th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Helena) - | |
| The Longwood and Briars Museums - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Shooting straight to limelight (full-bore shooters from St Helena attend the Commonwealth Games) - The Daily Telegraph | |
| Issue 19 - Summer 1999 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| St Helena and the Great Fire of London (whether early inhabitants were victims of the Great Fire) - Alexander Hugo Schulenburg | |
| Superman or media hype at St Helena? (Newspaper story of a clandestine visit to Longwood in 1818) - Victor Blair | |
| The Annual General Meeting - a tribute to our Chairman (Terry Spons) - Owen A. George | |
| The hand of affection (fund-raising for the Heritage Society to open the Jamestown museum) - Terry Spens | |
| Let the ‘Old Saints’ go marching on! In search of the St Helena Regiment (1842-63) - David Marr | |
| Sarah Bazett: St Helena’s own ‘My Fair Lady’ (biography of Sarah, Countess of Essex) - David Holt | |
| St Helena's 16th century astronaut - the adventures of Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger (portrayal of St Helena in fictional account of a voyage to the moon) - Trevor Hearl | |
| A journey of a lifetime (a visit to Tristan Da Cunha in 1999) - Dorothy Evans | |
| Issue 20 - Spring 2000 | |
| Editorial - Tony Cross | |
| St Helena: Where have all the beaches gone? (why the island's marine sand/shells is located over 1,500 feet above sea level) - David Holt | |
| Tale of a testimonial (details of the 1859 Kempthorne Testimonial with 195 Saints’ signatures) - Trevor Hearl | |
| Obituary: The Rt. Revd. Michael Houghton, Bishop of Ebbsfleet - Dorothy Evans, M.B.E. | |
| Happy warrior: William Forbes Macbean of the St Helena Regiment (1842-63) - David Marr | |
| Book review “St Helena 500 - A Chronological History of the Island” by Robin Gill and Percy Teale - Trevor Hearl | |
| Extracts from three letters from Mr Michael Titmarsh to Miss Smith of London (disinterment of Napoleon at St Helena in 1840) - Dorothy Evans | |
| Issue 21 - Summer 2000 | |
| The Friends of St Helena - what next? - Mure Smith | |
| End of an era for Wirebird (departure of Tony Cross and appointment of Angela Wigglesworth as editor) - Charles Frater | |
| At last - the real Royal Charter (publication of the first definitive edition of the 1673 Royal Charter) - Canon Nicholas Turner | |
| Curnow news (changes in personnel) - Mark Vincent | |
| Citizenship Commission update (issuing of full UK passports to Saints in 2002) - Canon Nicholas Turner | |
| News: Tax benefit (St Helena tax allowance increased from £1,200 to £2,000) / Cheaper calls (cost of weekend phone calls halved) - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| Minted for the Millennium (sterling silver tokens issued by Soloman & Co) - Jeremy Cairns-Wicks | |
| The new museum, development of St Helena through the ages (update on fundraising project) - Terry Spens | |
| A day in the life of . . . the St Helena Government UK Representative - Cathy Hopkins | |
| Obituary: Michael Colvin MP - Cathy Hopkins | |
| It’s never too late (letter to the Prime Minister calling for the efforts of Saints working at Ascension and on the RMS to be properly recognised) - Pamela Ward | |
| Spotlight on the wirebird (investigation by Reading University into decline of wirebird population) - Dr Neil McCulloch | |
| Campaign to save the albatross (launch of the Save The Albatross Campaign) - John Cooper | |
| Boer War Prisoners on St Helena - Basil George | |
| The Tristan relief stamp (overprinting of Tristan Da Cunha stamps to raise money for islanders evacuated because of volcanic eruption) - Robin Palmer | |
| Book reviews: Update of “The Overseas Territories Handbook” by George Drower; “A Union Castle Purserette” by Ann Haynes; “Castaway” by Yvette Christianse; “Penguins, Potatoes and Postage Stamps” by Alan Crawford; “Tristan Da Cunha the Legendary Island” by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi - Ian Mathieson | |
| Book review: “Napoleon in Exile - The Houses and Furniture supplied by the British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St Helena” by Martin Levy - Trevor Hearl | |
| RSPB to publish island bird book - Jim Stevenson | |
| Fleeing carnage, Hutu boy stows away to St Helena - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| News from ‘The House’ (update by Speaker of The House) - John Newman | |
| A philatelic conundrum (letters from St Helena carry Cardiff post mark following breakdown of RMS at sea) - Trevor Hearl | |
| The Cairns-Wicks Column (air flights to St Helena a viable alternative to travel by sea) - Julian Cairns-Wicks | |
| Sports Report (shooting, golf and Prince Andrew School’s facilities) - Gavin George | |
| Reading the economic runes - an airport, St Helena’s last opportunity (commentary on the St Helena Government’s “Strategic Review”) - Trevor Hearl | |
| Issue 22 - Summer 2001 | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| Citizenship by 2002 is the aim of island-loving MP (Bob Russell’s speech at the October Friends meeting) - Anna and John Siraut | |
| This year, next year, sometime? (Commentary on the delay in restoring British citizenship to Saints) - Mure Smith | |
| Saint at the wheel (Rodney Young becomes the first Saint to captain the RMS) - Anna and John Siraut | |
| RMS crew miss Falklands medal by two days (ministerial response to Pamela Ward’s appeal for recognition of Saints role in the Falklands conflict) - David Jones, medal Section, Maritime & Coastguard Section | |
| Obituaries: Elizabeth Scholtz; Alan Hoole CMG OBE - Anna Siraut and John Newman | |
| A day in the life of . . . the Governor and Commander-in Chief - David J. Hollamby | |
| How to keep in touch - and to help the Island and its people (The St Helena Association; The Link Committee; The St Helena Diocesan Association; The South Atlantic Working Group; The Island Commission on Citizenship - Anna and John Siraut | |
| ‘The Proper Study of Mankind’ - St Helena’s first human development report - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| End in sight to airport saga? - Anna and John Siraut | |
| On the net and firmly in the 21st century - South Atlantic web sites - Anna and John Siraut | |
| Alice in Tristan - a letter to Lord Salisbury - C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) | |
| Book Reviews: “St Helena 500: A Chronological History of the Island” by Robil Gill and percy Teale; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “St Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History”; “His Majesty’s Grant of the Island of St Helena” by Jeff Cant; “Come with me to St Helena” by B. W. Marshall; “A Tourist Guide to the Anglo-Boer War” by Trevor Westby-Nunn - Ian Mathieson | |
| Letter: Resignation as editor of Wirebird due to illness. Editorship assumed by Anna and John Siraut - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| Museum News - Terry Spens | |
| Birds of St Helena - an update - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| News in brief: Brewery start-up investigation; substantial shortfall in forecast island revenue - Anna and John Siraut | |
| TV ‘beneficial’ to youngsters (research concludes little change in anti-social behaviour by children after introduction of television on St Helena - Anna and John Siraut | |
| Issue 23 - Autumn 2001 | |
| From the Editor - Dr A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman's letter - Mure Smith | |
| Late 19th Century photo of St Helena’s Salvation Army Band - | |
| A fragment (poem originally published in St Helena Monthly Register, 1810) - ‘A Correspondent’ | |
| ‘Same old t’ings’ from your own correspondent (diary of May - September 2001 St Helena election period) - Cathy Hopkins | |
| Saints on Ascension Island in the inter-war period - Stephen R. Royle | |
| Early anti-slavery sentiments on St Helena - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| The Africana Museum Catalogue of Prints and Paintings (discussion of over 100 St Helena prints) - Ian Mathieson | |
| Air access for St Helena (public consultation whether St Helena should go ahead with Air Access Project planned to be held in 2002) - Office of the Governor, press release | |
| A St Helena “Court Journal” (extract from Joseph Lockwood’s 1851 Guide to St Helena) - Joseph Lockwood | |
| George Gabriel Powell: The First Speaker of South Carolina (story of a respected American politician who was exiled from St Helena for misappropriation of funds) - Yvonne Stadler | |
| Book Review: “Napoleon Bonaparte, England’s Prisoner: The Emperor in Exile 1816-21” by Frank Giles - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 24 - Spring 2002 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| In memoriam: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1900-2002 - | |
| The Museum prize raffle visit to St Helena (visit in November 2000) - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| The discovery of St Helena: the search continues (investigation of which Portuguese discovered St Helena and when, based on documentary and cartographic evidence) - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Obituary: Anthony Nelson, publisher, 1932-2002 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| The St Helena match girl: a 19th century mystery (identity of St Helena-born sent to England for her education but sent onto the streets as a match girl by her guardians) - From Bells’ Weekly Messenger, 1831 | |
| The St Helena National Trust (Projects: described - saving endemic species; St Helena museum; restoration of a flax mill; a school project - | |
| Saint Helena (a poem published in 1944) - Edwin H. Collard | |
| Book Reviews: “St Helena - The Chinese Connection: The History of the Chinese Indentured Labourers On St. Helena 1810-1836 and beyond” by Barbara George; “St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha - The Bradt Travel Guide” by Sue Steiner - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 25 - Autumn 2002 (SPECIAL ISSUE: THE NEW ST HELENA MUSEUM) | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| A new home for the Museum: the Old Power House (record of work since March 2000) - Gay Denbow | |
| On parade: the making of a soldier for the Museum (construction of life-sized model soldier dressed in St Helena Regiment uniform, 1842-63) - David Marr | |
| The Museum opens (on the 21st May 2002) - Mure Smith | |
| Education, young people and the Museum (description from an educational perspective) - Dorothy Evans | |
| Creating the 'Nuseum' (new nickname given to new museum) - Sarah Holland | |
| Museums are forever . . . (background to the planning of the museum and its displays) - Colin Dawes | |
| Comments from the Visitor& Book (567 comments left on day of opening and 586 over next 9 weeks) - | |
| Court Circular: The Princess Royal at St Helena (diary of Princess Anne’s visit, November 2002) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| In search of the St Helena Magazine - Part 1 (description of the St Helena (Diocesan) Magazine and its importance in documenting the island over the first half of the 20th century) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Issue 26 - Spring 2003 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| In search of the St Helena Magazine - Part 2 (description of the St Helena (Diocesan) Magazine and its importance in documenting the island over the first half of the 20th century - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| I was a Foreign Office Consultant: Big fish on a small island or catching wahoo off Ascension (description of one-month visit) - Stephen A. Royle | |
| The St James' Restoration Action Group (extract from leaflet published by Action Group) - | |
| Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in the UK's Overseas Territories - Frances Marks | |
| Aspects of the Lives of the ‘Liberated Africans’ on St Helena (religious conversion/physical recovery of slaves/recruitment as troops/employment and settlement/disturbance of Ruperts Bay graves) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in the UK's Overseas Territories - Frances Marks | |
| Aspects of the Lives of the ‘Liberated Africans’ on St Helena (religious conversion/physical recovery of slaves/recruitment as troops/employment and settlement/disturbance of Ruperts Bay graves) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Correspondence (description of St Helena Regiment’s uniform) - Derek Bell | |
| Issue 27 - Autumn 2003 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| News in Brief - Appointment of new governor (of Michael Clancy)/St Helena Link (Management of Education Support Programme taken on by Centre for International Development and Training, Wolverhampton - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Obituary: Quentin Keynes, 1921-2003 - Ian Mathieson | |
| Recent Books of Interest (“Scanty Particulars”: The life of Dr James Barry” by Rachel Holmes / “Outpost: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British empire” by Simon Winchester / “The Pirate Hunter: The true story of Captain Kidd” by Richard Zacks - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| British Parliamentarians visit St Helena - Roger Jones | |
| Some ‘Anglo-Indian’ and other Memorials at St Helena (a description of headstones at St James Church Garden, Knollcombes, Jamestown Baptist church, St Matthews, St James, St Paul’s and lack of a memorial at Ruperts Bay - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| The Parliamentarian and the Civil Servant: Two Views of St Helena in the 1950s (contrasting portrayals of St Helena in reports by Cledwyn Hughes MP and by Aaron Emanuel from the Colonial Office) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| A Comedy of Errors or The Pitfalls of Genealogy (disproving family tradition that ancestor served as a soldier guarding Napoleon) - Roy A. Rickard | |
| Book Reviews: “The Monsters of St Helena” by Brooks Hansen / “Turtle Island: A journey to Britain’s Oldest Colony” by Sergio Ghione - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 28 - Spring 2004 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Mure Smith | |
| Lines Written on the Island of St Helena (poem originally published in 1810) - ‘A person late of this Island’ | |
| Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613 (an analysis of the earliest Portuguese ships and captains) - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| Air Access Updates (rejection of four outline proposals to develop air access to St Helena and background briefing by Sharon Wainright, Air Access Project Coordinator - St Helena Government/ DfID | |
| Community, Dependency, Migration: Historical Observations on Contemporary St Helena Problems (analysis of dependency by Crown Commissioners in 1834/5 before coming under Crown control /post Crown control emigration patterns/ suggestions for mass emigration from island in 1715 and 1936 - Dr A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Recent Books of Interest (“Tristan da Cunha: History, People, Language” by Daniel Schreier and Karen Lavarello-Schreier/ “Isolation and Language Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan” by Daniel Schreier/ “Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002”/ “Journal of Historical Geography”, Vol.29 - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Obituary: Miss Clarice Chapman, 1926-2004 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Australia via St Helena, 1911 (letter from a passenger of the SS Papanui destroyed by fire off Jamestown) - Peter Ellis | |
| Book review: Neil McCulloch, “A Guide to the Birds of St Helena and Ascension Island” - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Book review: Ben Fogle, “The Teatime Islands: Journeys to Britain’s Faraway Outposts” - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Review essay: The St Helena Monograph Project (comments about and criticism of a planned series of monographs by Robin Taylor about St Helena) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 29 - Autumn 2004 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Guy Marriott | |
| Members New and Old - Roger Leighton | |
| Reflections on a Visit to St Helena (edited draft of address given at the 2004 AGM) - Owen George | |
| ‘Derby Days’ at Deadwood: Highlights of Horse-racing at St Helena - Part 1 (horse-racing during the Napoleonic and an earlier period) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Memories of St Helena - Part I - Sergio Ghione | |
| Curnow Shipping Fraud Case (accusations that former executives of Curnow Shipping conspired to defraud St Helena Line Ltd collapse in court case) - | |
| Book review: “St Helena: One Man's Island” by Ian Baker - Dorothy Evans | |
| Errata to Wirebird No 28, “Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613” - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| Issue 30 - Spring 2005 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Guy Marriott | |
| Correspondence (comment on ownership of RMS St Helena) - J. Hale | |
| How far is St Helena from the Gates of Trafalgar? (Midshipman Horatio Nelson’s visit to St Helena in 1776) - Robin Gill | |
| ‘Derby Days’ at Deadwood: Highlights of Horse-racing at St Helena - Part 2 (horse-racing during the Napoleonic and a later period) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Endemic Invertebrates, the Airport and the St Helena Environment Charter (description of past studies of endemic invertebrates, their disappearance and impact of new airport) - Myrtle Ashmole | |
| Memories of St Helena - Part 2 - Sergio Ghione | |
| The Return of the Martin Guerre of St Helena, from the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1825 (case in which fraudster who robbed woman after convincing her he was her son from St Helena) - | |
| Book reviews: “Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002 “ by David Smallman; “The Proud and the Passionate” by Robert MacMillan Robertson - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 31 - Autumn 2005 | |
| From the Editor - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Guy Marriott | |
| A Week of Highs and Lows: Cycling Round St Helena - Part 1 - Simon Levell | |
| New Members (impressions of St Helena by Graham & Sylvia Evans) - Roger Leighton | |
| The Tristan da Cunha Discovery Fleet, 1506, and a Suggested Exact Date of Discovery - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| Letter From St Helena (working from the top floor of the Post Office) - John Turner | |
| The St Helena Independent (launch of newspaper in November 2005) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Confusion at Westminster or ‘Broad Bottom Airport’ and the ‘Firebird’ (Parliamentary confusion about the identity of St Helena’s endemic bird and the location of the proposed airport) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| DVD Review: “RMS St Helena: A South Atlantic Voyage” by Gisela Kraus & Günther Benze - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 32 - Spring 2006 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Chairman’s letter - Guy Marriott | |
| Diocese of St Helena Day (special Festival Day to be held at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport) - | |
| Discovery of the Endemic Invertebrates of St Helena and ‘The Belgians’ (description of past surveys and alleged extinction of species through over-collection of samples) - Myrtle & Philip Ashmole | |
| Ecological Restoration on St Helena: Diana's Peak National Park and the Millennium Forest (progress achieved over last 15 years in protecting endemic plant and insect population - Myrtle & Philip Ashmole | |
| ‘To Be Sold & Let - Slaves’: Reclaiming an Icon of St Helena’s Shameful Past (widely featured public notice shown to be 1829 slave sale at Jamestown under the trees in front of The Cannister) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| A Week of Highs and Lows: Cycling Round St Helena - Part 2 - Simon Levell | |
| Book Review: “St Helena: The Forgotten Island” by Quentin Keynes Bob Russell MP - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Correspondence (reaction to comments made about Parliamentary errors about St Helena in Issue 31) - | |
| Issue 33 - Autumn 2006 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Pictures from Italy: ‘The Death of Napoleon’ (description of play seen in Genoa in 1844-5) - Charles Dickens | |
| A Brief History of Cinema on St Helena (covers the period between early 1900s to 1980s) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Second World War Defences on St Helena (includes description of the armaments removed from the island and those still remaining) - Bill Clements | |
| Fernão Lopes - a South Atlantic ‘Robinson Crusoe’ - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| The St Helena Tea-Gardens, London (description of tavern/tea-garden near Royal Dock Yard in Southwark on Corbets/Cobbets Lane, today known as St Helena Road. - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| The BOU checklist The Birds of St Helena - an update on birds, and relevant ships’ movements, 1942 and 1944 (new St Helena birds listed by British Ornithologist’s Union; tracing WWII ship movements from records held by Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury) - Beau W. Rowlands | |
| Book Review: “RMS St Helena and the South Atlantic Islands” by Robert A. Wilson - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 34 - Spring 2007 | |
| From the Editor - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Obituary: Trevor Hearl: Teacher, Historian, and Pianist - Michael D. Mueller | |
| Obituary: For Trevor Hearl - Dan Yon | |
| Correspondence (tribute to Trevor Hearl) - Lord Beaumont of Whitley | |
| Obituary: A Tribute for Trevor Hearl - Dorothy Evans | |
| Obituary: Trevor Hearl - A Tribute - Basil George | |
| Obituary: Trevor Hearl - Colin Fox | |
| Obituary: Tony Cross and Trevor Hearl - A Tribute - Angela Wigglesworth | |
| Obituary: Trevor Hearl - Lawson Henry | |
| How Secure Was St Helena in 1815? (commentary of James Johnson’s description of St Helena as a secure place to hold Napoleon) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| John Charles Melliss, 1835-1910 - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| St Helena - An Economic Snapshot (past attempts by UK administrators to achieve viable economy for the island) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| The Birth of St Helena's Own Shipping Service (description of events leading to Curnow Shipping winning contract to operate St Helena’s shipping link) - Andrew Bell | |
| Issue 35 - Autumn 2007 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| The St Helena Wirebird: The Island’s Only Endemic Bird is Now a Critically Endangered Species - Vince Thompson | |
| A ‘Wicked’ Design: The St Helena Slave Rebellion of 1695 - Stephen R. Royle | |
| Potato Patch Pedal Power: Exploring Tristan da Cunha by Bicycle - Simon Levell | |
| St Helena Parallels with El Hierro in the Canary Islands (economic differences between the two islands) - Ian Mathieson | |
| Napoleon on HMS Bellerophon and HMS Northumberland: A Letter - Eunice Shanahan | |
| CD Review: St Helena -1962 by Charles Frater - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 36 - Spring 2008 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| The Loss of the SS Papanui, 1911: A Letter (from a passenger en-route to Australia) - Bill Beattie | |
| St Helena's Millennium Forest: A Symbol of the Fight to Defend Fragile Eco-Systems (reforestation of part of the Great Wood area) - Vince Thompson | |
| Robert Bruce: Memories of the Early Island Civil Service (article published in American newspaper in 1930s) - Ian Bruce | |
| Australia's First Fleet: A St Helena Sequel (description of St Helena in 1792 by Lieut. Bradley on HMS Sirius on homeward voyage after shipping first batch of convicts to Australia) - Trevor W. Hearl | |
| Book Reviews: “The Bennett Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and Cape Town” by Colin Fox; “Fernão Lopes ‑ A South Atlantic Robinson Crusoe” by Beau W. Rowlands, - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 37 - Autumn 2008 (SPECIAL ISSUE: ST HELENA FAMILY HISTORY) | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Biography: Thomas R. Bruce - The Life of a Saint (1862-1956) - Ian Bruce | |
| Biography: William Thomas of Coity, Wales, and St Helena (1797-1829) - Neil Walklate | |
| Biography: Capt. Matthew Bazett (d.1719) - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 38 - 2009 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| World affairs and their effect on St Helena shipping (description of shipping calling at or passing St Helena, mainly in the 1960s - Richard Grainger | |
| The Caesars of St Helena (earliest ancestors, ethnicity, emancipation and later generations) - John Gardiner | |
| Writing about St Helena: Purposes, motives and preparations - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Mutiny of the Frank N. Thayer, 1886 (report written on mutiny by American Consul, James A. MacKnight - Richard Grainger | |
| Book Review: “The Company's Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour” by Stephen Royle - A.H. Schulenburg | |
| Issue 39 - 2010 | |
| From the Editor - A. H. Schulenburg | |
| Preface (comments on the background to Robert Johnston's article) - Charles Frater | |
| Historic Saint Helena: Island Near the Sun (description of a visit to the island in January 1962) - Robert H. Johnston | |
| Issue 40 - 2011 | |
| From the Editor - Colin Fox | |
| Chasing the Slavers: The establishment of the Vice Admiralty Court of St Helena and its early cases - Stephane Van de Velde | |
| The Emperor's Grave: A sketch of St Helena,1839 (in addition to section about the tomb, also includes a description of visit including disembarkation, buildings, botanical gardens, Saul Solomon and Longwood) - Mrs Postans | |
| The Latter Days of Slavery: Where did all the women go? (under-representation of female slaves in the statistics) - Colin Fox | |
| St Helena Diaspora: Writing and visualising the St Helena Diaspora: One Hundred Men and Sathima's Windsong - Dan Yon | |
| The Belle Poule and the Exhumation of Napoleon - John Tyrrell | |
| Tailpiece (request for articles and guidelines to be followed) - Colin Fox | |