History is a living thing. Time changes everything, and – thereby – everything has history. Celebrated South African writer Njabulo Ndebele once championed the idea of ‘rediscovering the ordinary’. Ndebele’s concern was South African literature,…
When heavyweight boxer Clarence Hill captured bronze at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, he became the first Bermudian to ever win a medal at the quadrennial competition, and the island became the least…
Devonshire Colts Football Club was established in 1958, born out of the Howard Academy school football team, also known as Skinners School. At the centre of that origin story are two men whose vision reached…
In April 1876, a little-known grass court tennis tournament took place at Admiralty House, Spanish Point. Likely a first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, it cemented Bermuda’s place in the annals of tennis…
One of our greatest mistakes in Bermuda today, according to Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe, is that we don’t know our history well enough. Mr Justice Wolffe witnesses the outcome of this every time someone appears…