St. Helena Island is named after Saint Helena, a christian saint. Saint Helena or Saint Helen (in Latin Flavia Iulia Helena Augusta), c.250 - c.330ad, was th...
For well over twenty years St. Helena was garrisoned by its own infantry regiment, Her Majesty’s St. Helena Regiment of Foot; the most popular corps to serv...
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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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 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...
