St. Helena has only ever been successfully invaded once. Taken from “A History of the Island of St. Helena”, by T. H. Brooke, Esq., published in 1824
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There is an abundance of interesting historic buildings on St Helena which you can explore. In Jamestown alone, excluding the wharf, there are 18 Grade I List...
From 1907 until 1966 St. Helena’s flax industry was the engine of its economy. Now there is nothing left. Prompted by the withdrawal of the Liberated Afric...
St. Helena’s role as a prison island started a long time before Napoleon. Portuguese Nobleman Fernão Lopez became a voluntary exile here as early as 1515, a...
St. Helena has a recorded history spanning just over 500 years and is Britain’s second oldest colony (after Bermuda). Discovered on 21st May 1502 by the G...
From 1900 to 1902 St. Helena had to to house nearly 6,000 Boer prisoners-of-war. The first shipment of 514 prisoners arrived on the 10th April 1900, includin...
