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.

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?