Interested in the history of St Helena? We have three recent webinars to view on our website, featuring rosy views of the island in the East India Company era, British politicking in the time of Napoleon's exile, and the long history of enslavement and abolition on the island. All free to watch.

We're thrilled to announce a pledged donation of £2,000 from The St Helena Independent, St Helena's weekly online newspaper, towards our campaign to send a conservation-accredited structural engineer to St Helena in January. This very generous contribution has helped us raise enough other gifts and offers of support in kind so that we are very close to sum we need. Huge thanks to Vince Thompson of the Independent. We couldn't have done it without your support!

Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from reliance on enslaved labour to free labour, focusing on how enslaved people themselves experienced the almost 50-year process. 

Bonhams are selling a fr agment of wallpaper reputed to have c ome from the room in Longwood House in which the Emperor Napoleon died in 1821. It is labelled on the reverse: 'Part of the paper of the room in which Napoleon died at St Helena brought over by an officer who was present at the time of his death.' The souvenir has an accompanying note of provenance: 'Authenticated by Mrs Nethercote (nee Allix) whose relative Colonel Allix fought at Waterloo, and left by will to he

Anthony Emmett of the Royal Engineers was only about 25, but already much battle-scarred, when he was appointed commanding royal engineer on St Helena during Napoléon's exile. It may have been his dream job...

Help us get a conservation engineer to St Helena Some of St Helena's most important historic monuments need urgent repair and protection. We are fundraising to send a conservation-accredited structural engineer to St Helena to assess the most appropriate means of stabilising and repairing them before more historic fabric is lost to the weather and the sea.  We have a highly qualified and experienced engineer in the UK who is willing to work largely pro bono if we can raise th

How did the English East India Company come to govern this tiny island in the middle of the South Atlantic? Why was St Helena so important to the expansion of Britain's commercial and political empire in Asia? And what did lemon trees have to do with it all? 

Stop Press! If you are in St Helena, you have a fortnight left to catch this moving and intriguing exhibition at the Museum of St Helena....

The willows weeping over Napoleon's grave in St Helena achieved iconic status in the imagery and writing about the island in the 19th century. Sketches and prints of the scene ranged from the realistic to the romantic, the latter including a fanciful sub-genre depicting the emperor's silhouette hidden between the trunks of the trees at the grave. One of the more conventional images of Napoleon's grave: 'The Tomb of Bonaparte', hand-coloured etching and aquatint by Thomas Suth

This magnificent panorama of St Helena - over 1 metre long - was painted by the Dutch clergyman and watercolourist, Jan Brandes...