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....

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