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