Search St Helena’s original records

Explore a searchable collection of St Helena’s colonial government records under the East India Company: ultimately around 250 closely handwritten volumes of council proceedings, two-way correspondence with London, wills, leases, deeds and more.

This site lets researchers search the entire body of primary sources at once for a specific word or phrase, rather than relying on later second-hand histories.

Why the original records matter

Much of St Helena’s history rests on a handful of standard older works, such as those by Brooke and Gosse. The many errors in these books have been entrenched by circular citation, each generation of authors drawing on them rather than on the primary records themselves.

Janisch’s extracts from the records, published in 1885, have long served as the primary guide to navigating the archives, yet they possess two distinct flaws. First, he necessarily restricted his selection to a limited number of entries, based on his own assessment of their historical significance. Second, his phrasing often diverges significantly from the source material, largely because the original information was dispersed across separate sections, sometimes within a single volume and sometimes across several. Without access to the records, later authors have fallen into the trap of repeating Janisch’s modified statements instead of the original text. Furthermore, it is sometimes difficult to know how far his commentary draws upon his personal opinion.

For most of the island’s history, consulting the original records was simply impractical, as St Helena’s remoteness kept them out of reach. That changed once they were photographed and made available as images on the British Library website.

This site builds on that work: the original records, transcribed in full and fully searchable. Transcription is ongoing, working forward in time from the oldest volumes, with new material added regularly.

A page of a letter sent from England to St Helena in 1680, in dense seventeenth-century handwriting with marginal notes
A letter from England to St Helena, 21 January 1680

Searching the records

Each search looks through the transcriptions and returns every page that contains your term. Every page corresponds to a single image of the original documents, identified by its British Library film number. In each result this film number is a link, so you can open the original image and check the exact wording for yourself.

You can refine a search using single words, exact phrases, wildcard symbols and Boolean operators. The Boolean keywords (AND, OR or NOT) must be typed in capitals.

Examples of searches What it does
Slave A single word (upper or lower case) finds every page containing that word.
^Coulson A caret runs a phonetic search, finding similar-sounding words. This is especially useful for surnames, where variant spellings in the original text and mistranscriptions are common. For example, ^Coulson finds not only that name but also Colson, Coleson or Cowson.
Governor Council Two or more words are treated as alternatives, finding pages containing any of these words.
"Mary French" Quotation marks find an exact phrase and nothing else on pages.
?ates A question mark stands for a single unknown character, so this finds pages with words such as Bates, Gates, Oates, Yates and so forth.
Harr* An asterisk is a wildcard matching the start of a word, so this finds pages with words such as Harris, Harrison, Harrington and so on.
Pyke AND slave AND, written in capitals, returns only pages that contain both these words.
Brooke OR Beale OR, written in capitals, returns pages containing either word.
Powder NOT Fuse NOT, written in capitals, excludes a word, returning pages with powder but not fuse.

The records

Where the records are held

St Helena’s records for the 150 years of East India Company (EIC) rule, up to 1836, are held in two places: the Archives Office in Jamestown, and the India Office Records at the British Library. Many documents survive in both, a result of the Company’s practice of sending duplicate copies to its directors in London.

The two collections are not equivalent. The British Library is the better source for understanding St Helena’s place within the wider Company network, while the Jamestown Archives Office holds the fuller record of the island itself and its population. The British Library is, of course, far easier to reach than St Helena, but it does not hold the whole story.

Neither collection is indexed or searchable. To find anything, a researcher must first know the rough date, then work out whether the information is likely to sit in the council consultations, in letters to or from St Helena, or elsewhere, and only then search the densely handwritten pages by hand.

Photographing the records

In 2022, concerned that the records at Jamestown were vulnerable to fire, water and termites, the British Library sponsored a team from the St Helena National Trust to photograph more than 110,000 pages of the Jamestown records, covering the whole of the EIC period. All these images are now available on the British Library’s website.

This lets researchers read the records without travelling to London or St Helena, but finding information remains slow, because the images themselves cannot be searched. Reading them is hard work too, made harder still where the handwriting is poor or the paper is foxed or marred by ink bleeding through from the other side.

Transcribing the records

This project was set up to transcribe as much of these records as possible. Transcribing by eye gives the most accurate result, but the sheer volume of material makes that impractical, so the images have been transcribed using AI.

With experience, the AI was set two distinct tasks: first to transcribe each image as accurately as possible, and second to render that text into a modern English explanation. Each page was then supplemented with an analysis in two parts: an interpretations section, which explains the meaning of the archaic text and defines some of the terms used, and a speculations section, which considers what the record may imply beyond what it states. As the work proceeded, a short handover file was created at the end of each volume, allowing details to be cross-referenced against information from earlier records.

How the records are presented on this site

Each page of the records is presented as a single row of four columns. The first two give the source reference: the British Library film number and the page number within the volume. The third column holds the verbatim transcription, and the fourth the modern English explanation together with the interpretations and speculations. Keeping the transcription and the commentary in separate columns means the reader can always see where the original records end and the analysis begin.

Every film number is also a link to the original image on the British Library’s website, so readers can examine the source for themselves. This matters, because the records cannot be taken as flawless. The original documents contain misspellings, including many variant spellings of the same name, and the AI itself may also mistranscribe a word. Linking each entry to its source image means any reading can be checked against the original.

All the transcriptions can either be searched from this website or downloaded as PDF files.

Two photographs: on the left, a member of the team photographing a bound volume on a copy stand while wearing white gloves; on the right, gloved hands lifting a fragile, insect-damaged leaf from a box of records
Photographing the records and termite damaged pages

Images courtesy of The Friends of St Helena.

St Helena: Books, Academic Articles and Thesis by Subject

Within each subject heading, the links are listed first (alphabetically by author, then date), followed by articles from Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena. Works spanning more than one subject appear under each relevant heading.

Contents

Reference, General Histories, and Island Biographies

Comprehensive histories of St Helena, gazetteers, directories, and reference works spanning the island's whole story.

Anon, The St. Helena Calendar and Directory, for 1832, St Helena, 1832

Anon. Recollections of St Helena. The United Service Magazine 122 (January 1870): 256-65.

Anon (By a Bird of Passage), Saint Helena, Houlston and Wright, London, 1865

Bain, Kenneth. St Helena: The Island, Her People and Their Ship. York: Wilton 65, 1993.

Baker, Ian. 'A Magnificent Obsession'. India International Centre Quarterly 36, no. 1 (2009): 108-21.

Barnes, John, A Tour through the Island of St. Helena; with notices of its geology, mineralogy, botany, &c. &c. collected during a residence of twelve years; with some particulars respecting the arrival and detention of Napoleon Buonaparte, M. Richardson: London, 1817

Beatson, Alexander, Tracts Relative to the Island of St. Helena: Written During a Residence of Five Years, London, W. Bulmer and Company, 1816

Brandreth, Henry Rowland, and Edward Walpole. A Precarious Livelihood: St Helena 1834: East India Company Outpost to Crown Colony. Edited by Colin Fox and Edward Baldwin. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2016.

Brooke, Thomas H., A history of the island of St. Helena: from its discovery by the Portuguese to the year 1806; to which is added an appendix, Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1808

Brooke, Thomas H. History of the Island of St. Helena, from Its Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1823. 2nd ed. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1824.

Cardozo, Manoel. 'The Idea of History in the Portuguese Chroniclers of the Age of Discovery'. The Catholic Historical Review 49, no. 1 (1963): 1-19.

Castell, Robin. St Helena, Island Fortress (1977); St Helena: A Photographic Treasury 1856-1947 (2008); St Helena Illustrated; St Helena in Focus. St Helena: The Castell Collection. No publisher web page exists (privately published; sold only through second-hand dealers).

Chaplin, Arnold. A St. Helena Who’s Who; or, A Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1919.

Downing, Keith, The Saint Helena Railway

Duncan, Francis (M. D.), A description of the Island of St. Helena, R. Phillips, 1805

Farrington, Anthony. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834. London: The British Library, 1999.

Foster, William. 'The Acquisition of St. Helena'. The English Historical Review XXXIV, no. CXXXV (1 July 1919): 281-89.

Galway, Henry L. 'A Sojourn in St. Helena'. Journal of the Royal African Society 40, no. 160 (1941): 223-37.

Games, Alison. 'Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography'. In Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders, edited by Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, 357-72. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Gosse, Philip. St. Helena, 1502–1938. London: Cassell, 1938. [sainthelenaisland.info, full PDF]

Grant, Benjamin, A Few Notes on St Helena and Descriptive Guide to which is added some remarks on the island as a health resort; Captain Oliver's Geology of the Island and numerous appendices

Green, Lawrence G. There’s a Secret Hid Away: Memories of Unusual Experiences and Mysteries in Southern Africa and African Isles. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1956. (St Helena features from chapter 20.) [digitised on Archive.org; see FIBIwiki listing]

Green, Lawrence G. Eight Bells at Salamander. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1960.

Hanke, Steve, and Matt Sekerke. 'St Helena's Forgotten Currency Board'. Central Banking XIII, no. 3 (February 2003): 77-81.

Hearl, Trevor W. ‘St Helena Day’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015): 32–46. [sainthelenaisland.info, full PDF]

Jackson, E. L. (Emily Louise). St. Helena: The Historic Island, from Its Discovery to the Present Date. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1903. [digitised on Archive.org; see FIBIwiki listing]

Jackson, E.L, St. Helena: the historic island from its discovery to the present date, Thomas Whittaker, New York, 1905

Janisch, Hudson Ralph. Extracts from the St. Helena Records. St. Helena: Benjamin Grant, 1885.

Kitching, G.C., A Handbook and Gazetteer of the Island of St Helena Including a Short History of the Island under the Crown 1834-1902. St. Helena: GC Kitching, 1937.

Lewis, Colin, The bells of Jamestown, South Atlantic Ocean, The Ringing World, September 24, 2004

Lockwood, Joseph, A Guide to St. Helena, descriptive and historical, with a visit to Longwood, and Napoleon's Tomb (with a Sketch of the History of the Island Saint Helena), 1851, Geo. Gibb, St Helena

Lucas, Charles P. 'Islands, Peninsulas and Empires'. The Geographical Teacher 10, no. 4 (1920): 126-30.

MacGregor, Arthur. St Helena: An Island Biography. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024. [publisher page; in-copyright]

Martin, Robert Montgomery, History of the British possessions in the Indian & Atlantic Oceans; comprising Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, the Falkland Islands, St. Helena, Ascension, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Cape Coast Castle, &c., &c., London, Whittaker, 1837 (St Helena and Ascension are covered in Book 4 from page 184)

Martucci, David B. 'Flag and Symbol Usage in Early New England'. Raven: A Journal of Vexillology 13 (2006): 40-68.

Melliss, John Charles. St. Helena: A Physical, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Island, Including Its Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875. [St Helena Virtual Library and Archive (B. Weaver)]

Melliss, John C. St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island, Including its Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875.

Melliss, John C. 'The Island of St. Helena'. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 57, no. 2941 (1909): 404-10.

Royle, Stephen. 'St. Helena: A Geographical Summary'. Geography 76, no. 3 (1991): 266-68.

Royle, Stephen A. 'Island History, Not the Story of Islands: The Case of St Helena'. Shima 13, no. 1 (2019).

Royle, Stephen A. Review of St Helena: An Island Biography, by Arthur MacGregor. The English Historical Review 140, no. 602 (2025): 278–80. [Oxford Academic; in-copyright]

Runciman, Walter Runciman, The tragedy of St. Helena, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911

Schulenburg, A. H. 'St Helena: British Local History in the Context of Empire'. The Local Historian 28, no. 2 (1998): 108-22.

Schulenburg, Alexander. Note. Philip Gosse and the Discovery of St Helena'. Notes & Queries 45, no. 4 (1998)

Schulenburg, Alexander H. 'St Helena Historiography, Philately, and the "Castella" Controversy'. South Atlantic Chronicle XXIII, no. 3 (1999).

Schulenburg, Alexander, Thesis, Transient observations: the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse, University of St Andrews, 1999

Schulenburg, A. H. "'Island of the Blessed': Eden, Arcadia and the Picturesque in the Textualizing of St Helena". Journal of Historical Geography 29, no. 4 (2003): 535-53.

Wirebird articles

Colin Fox (Transcription). ‘Governor William Grey-Wilson, Letters to his mother (Letters donated by Bernard Mabbett written in 1887 when working as Acting Governor, describing the island at that time and describing his duties)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

R Stephen/Colin Fox [ed]. ‘Extract from "Around the Atlantic" (WW2 memories of a radio telegraphist)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 46 (2017).

A Lady. ‘A letter from a Lady’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Extract from 1827 meeting SH Ag & Hort. Soc.. ‘Report of Surf in James' Bay from 5th to 8th March 1821 (A report of the loss of life and damage inflicted on the island resulting from 'rollers')’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘News in brief:  Brewery start-up investigation; substantial shortfall in forecast island revenue’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘TV ‘beneficial’ to youngsters (research concludes little change in anti-social behaviour by children after introduction of television on St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘On the net and firmly in the 21st century - South Atlantic web sites’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Edward Baldwin. ‘A History of St Helena's Public Seal’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Rev. Thomas Bankes. ‘An 18th century account of St Helena (circa 1795), Transcribed by H. F. Driver’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Andrew Bell. ‘Address given by at the well dressing ceremony, 24th August 1997’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Bill Birch. ‘The Billy Birch (The story behind the name)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Sir Bernard Braine. ‘“St Helena Deserves Support” - Address to the A.G.M. Of “The Friends” 1990’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1991).

Ian Bruce. ‘Robert Bruce:  Memories of the Early Island Civil Service (article published in American newspaper in 1930s)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

Ian Bruce. ‘Biography:  Thomas R. Bruce - The Life of a Saint (1862-1956)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 37 (2008).

Ian Bruce and Nick Thorpe. ‘William A Thorpe, 1842-1918 (a "most outstanding island-born businessman") - Ian Bruce & Nick Thorpe’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Ian Bruce. ‘The first Dozen Years’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Ian Bruce. ‘Alfred Mosely (Early 20th C benefactor)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 46 (2017).

Ian Bruce. ‘St Helena Lace and Needlework’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Ian Bruce. ‘St Helena during the First World War’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Ian Bruce. ‘The Origin of the name Castella’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Ian Bruce. ‘Escaping St Helena: the desertion and return of John Brown, 1799-1801’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Ian Bruce. ‘Lies, distortions and data: Unpicking the myths about St Helena's illegitimacies’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

Jeremy Cairns-Wicks. ‘Minted for the Millennium (sterling silver tokens issued by Soloman & Co)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). ‘Alice in Tristan - a letter to Lord Salisbury’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Clarke Chapman. ‘St Helena of Colchester’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Clarice Chapman. ‘The Colchester connection (associations between Colchester and St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Chris and Sheila Hillman. ‘Some Observations on the St Helena Man and Horse Signal Station - Chris and Sheila Hillman’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Edwin H. Collard. ‘Saint Helena (a poem published in 1944)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

‘A Correspondent’. ‘A fragment  (poem originally published in St Helena Monthly Register, 1810)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Tony Cross. ‘News of the Friends’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Tony Cross. ‘Review:  St Helena South Atlantic Ocean, a video by Charles and Julia Frater’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Elizabeth Thurston née Cross. ‘Island school thirty years ago - a former pupil reminisces’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘Book Review:  “Schooling in the South Atlantic islands” by Dorothy Evans’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘St Helenian treasures (record of St Helenian treasures owned by  members of Friends)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Tony Cross and Trevor Hearl. ‘Early pictorial news coverage (a summary of all known early pictorial images of St Helena  in the news media)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Tony Cross. ‘Book Review:  “A Guide to the Manuscript Sources for the History of St Helena” by Brian S. Smith’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Tony Cross. ‘From the editor's post bag:  From Ian Mathieson (additional images of St Helena in the news media to those listed in Issue 14); from Pam McLintock (description of an earthquake at St Helena in 1817’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Tony Cross. ‘Book review - “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha” by Alan Day’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Colin Dawes. ‘Museums are forever . . . (background to the planning of the museum and its displays)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Robert C. Deakin. ‘Collecting "St Helena" Part 1 (stamp collecting)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Robert C. Deakin. ‘Collecting St Helena Part 2 - The First Stamp (stamp collecting)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Robert C. Deakin. ‘Collecting St Helena Part 3 (stamp collecting)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Gay Denbow. ‘A new home for the Museum: the Old Power House (record of work since March 2000)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Correspondence - correction to Autumn 1990 editorial’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Random Recollections’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Random recollections (memories of St Helena during World War II)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Peter Ellis. ‘Australia via St Helena, 1911 (letter from a passenger of the SS Papanui destroyed by fire off Jamestown)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Dorothy Evans. ‘South Atlantic islands seminar (description of meeting between  government representatives, education departments, UK consultants and others at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Dorothy Evans. ‘John Bailey - an obituary’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Education, young people and the Museum (description from an educational perspective)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Book review:  “St Helena: One Man's Island” by Ian Baker’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Obituary:  A Tribute for Trevor Hearl’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Colin Fox. ‘Obituary:  Trevor Hearl’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Colin Fox. ‘Excerpt from the St Helena Gazette 18 September 1806 - recommendations from a surgeon/dentist, plus amusing anecdote - Colin Fox’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Colin Fox. ‘Mutiny on the Worcester (the Court case and its aftermath)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Colin Fox. ‘Saul Solomon and the Margate Murder (a "foul murder" in 1786) - Colin Fox’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Charles Frater. ‘Preface (comments on the background to Robert Johnston's article)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 39 (2010).

John Gardiner. ‘The Caesars of St Helena (earliest ancestors, ethnicity, emancipation and later generations)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 38 (2009).

Owen A. George. ‘The Deaf Boys’ Project’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Owen A. George. ‘Obituary:  Mrs Doreen Ogborn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Owen George. ‘U.K. organisations with St Helena interests:  The Friends of St Helena; The St Helena Link Committee; The St Helena Diocesan Association; The St Helena Association (UK)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 8 (1993).

Owen A. George. ‘Obituary:  a tribute to the late Edward Charles Brooks, O.B.E’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Owen George. ‘The restoration of St James tower clock’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Owen A. George. ‘Obituary:  A tribute to the late Louisa Georgina Till, matron’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Owen A. George. ‘Obituary:  A tribute to the late Peter Theodore Joshua’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Owen A. George. ‘The Annual General Meeting - a tribute to our Chairman (Terry Spons)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Gavin George. ‘Sports Report (shooting, golf and Prince Andrew School’s facilities)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Basil George. ‘Obituary:  Trevor Hearl - A Tribute’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Sergio Ghione. ‘Memories of St Helena - Part I’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Sergio Ghione. ‘Memories of St Helena - Part 2’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Elizabeth Gocher. ‘A Saint in Sussex (description of Pat Nichols’ woodworking skills at Rotherfield Hall)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Richard Grainger. ‘Mutiny of the Frank N. Thayer, 1886 (report written on mutiny by American Consul, James A. MacKnight’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 38 (2009).

Richard Grainger. ‘St Helena then and now: a personal view’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Richard Grainger. ‘Diplomatic Wireless Station, St Helena, Piccolo and Islanditis’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Brian Gresty. ‘Obituary:  Sir James Harford’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

Sizakele Gumede. ‘Maldivia House once belonged to the Natal Government of South Africa’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Geoffrey Guy, C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E.. ‘A tribute to Gilbert Martineau’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Rev. David Hall. ‘St Helena 1963 (appointed as a secondary school teacher, memories of life on the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

K. A. Harwood. ‘Following Ted Cannan’s funeral, a letter’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Heleniana in the royal collection (island items displayed at the 1990 “Royal Miscellany” exhibition)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Helena and South Atlantic books in print 1991’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘A meteoric career: James Francis Homagee, 1846-1919’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Obituary:  Mr Edward Hibbert (postal historian) and Mr Tony Cross (surgeon)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book Reviews:  “Seasoned Tales” by Geoffrey Stamp; “St Helena” by Kenneth Bain’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book Reviews:  “St Helena Lifeline” by Ronnie Eriksen; “The First St Helena” by Barbara B. Montgomerie; “South Atlantic Haven” by Ken Denholme’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Rescuing St Helena 's incunabula (saving some of the first books printed  on St Helena from being sold to an American dealer)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Earwig stamps (the giant earwig and other endemic insects to be featured on a new issue of stamps)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Maldivia in the spotlight (details of Maldivia House)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘A sad story (Tesco's canned tuna from St Helena rapidly withdrawn due to cost/supply problems)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘When penal reform was on trial at St Helena (a history of Victorian penal policy on the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Magazine Insert: Typescript of newspaper coverage of St Helena during April/May 1997, including reports of “riots”.  These arose from an article in the Financial Times written by Angela Wigglesworth on the 8th March 1997’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Ascension Island's odd man out (forward to a critique by Canon Nicholas Turner of “The Queer Dutchman” published in 1994 by an author using the pen name “C. Adler)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Helena’s watercolours at Christie’s (description of two paintings of St Helena to be sold by auction)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book reviews:  Reprint of Hugh Crallan’s Report, “Listing and Preservation of Buildings of Architectural Interest”;  “St Helena - Preserving the Island’s Historic Buildings” by Alan Cheetham’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book review:  “St Helena, South Atlantic Island” by Helmut and Alexander Schulenburg’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Trevor Hearl. ‘Book review “St Helena 500 - A Chronological History of the Island”  by Robin Gill and Percy Teale’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

Trevor Hearl. ‘A philatelic conundrum (letters from St Helena carry Cardiff post mark following breakdown of RMS at sea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Obituary: Anthony Nelson, publisher, 1932-2002’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Obituary: Miss Clarice Chapman, 1926-2004’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘John Charles Melliss, 1835-1910’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Lawson Henry. ‘Obituary:  Trevor Hearl’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

HMSO. ‘St Helena - an official report from 1927’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

David J. Hollamby. ‘A day in the life of . . . the Governor and Commander-in Chief’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Sarah Holland. ‘Creating the 'Nuseum' (new nickname given to new museum)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

David Holt. ‘Sarah Bazett: St Helena’s own ‘My Fair Lady’ (biography of Sarah, Countess of Essex)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

John Prince Hopewell, F.R.C.S.. ‘Samuel Hopewell and St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Cathy Hopkins. ‘Obituary:  Michael Colvin MP’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Cathy Hopkins. ‘A day in the life of . . . the St Helena Government UK Representative’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

‘A person late of this Island’. ‘Lines Written on the Island of St Helena (poem originally published in 1810)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Dr JC & SM Hillman. ‘John Hillman and Family’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Roger Leighton. ‘Members New and Old’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Roger Leighton. ‘New Members (impressions of St Helena by Graham & Sylvia Evans)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Lichen. ‘Memories of St Helena (Originally published under the title "St Helena as it was sixty-five years ago") - Lichen’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Joseph Lockwood. ‘A St Helena “Court Journal” (extract from Joseph Lockwood’s 1851 Guide to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Shelley Magellan-Wade, Aidan Plato, Radka Henry, Andrew Pearson and Helena Bennett. ‘Creating a Digital Past: St Helena and the Endangered Archives Programme’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

Clifford J. Masters. ‘History in Postcards’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Book reviews: Update of “The Overseas Territories Handbook” by George Drower; “A Union Castle Purserette” by Ann Haynes; “Castaway” by Yvette Christianse; “Penguins, Potatoes and Postage Stamps” by Alan Crawford; “Tristan Da Cunha the Legendary Island” by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Ian Mathieson. ‘The Africana Museum Catalogue of Prints and Paintings (discussion of over 100 St Helena prints)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Obituary:  Quentin Keynes, 1921-2003’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

Pamela McClintock. ‘Sir George Bingham KCB’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Austin Meares. ‘The Napoleonic Stamps of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Michael D. Mueller. ‘Obituary:  Trevor Hearl: Teacher, Historian, and Pianist’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Dr Paul Murray. ‘St Helena and the Irish Civil War’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

Father David Musgrave & Edward Baldwin. ‘Flags over St Helena - An Overview’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

Extract from St Helena News. ‘Official opening of Prince Andrew school library’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Susan O'Bey. ‘A Place of Confinement’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Barry E. O'Meara. ‘Extracts from “A voice from St Helena” 1822’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Robin Palmer. ‘The Tristan relief stamp (overprinting of Tristan Da Cunha stamps to raise money for islanders evacuated because of volcanic eruption)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Andrew Pearson. ‘The archaeology and historic landscape of Lemon Valley’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

Andrew Pearson. ‘Death Valley: Joseph Lockwood and the curious case of a skeleton near Sugarloaf’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

John Pinfold. ‘The Trevor Hearl Collection at Rhodes House Library, Oxford (Description of books, some extremely rare, donated with research papers to the Bodleian Library)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

John Pinfold. ‘Book Review - St Helena Britannica (Review of book by Trevor W. Hearl and edited by A.H. Schulenburg) - John Pinfold’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Douglas Quantrill. ‘Not the Prince of Wales (memories of a survivor from the torpedoed S.S. “City of Cairo”)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Manfred Rippich. ‘Radio St Helena (broadcasting on the island since 1967)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Dr. Stephen Royle. ‘Queen's Graduate's Memorial in St Helena (article about Dr W. J. J. Arnold)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘The Atlantic colonies (an analysis of island colonies in the North and South Atlantic)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 8 (1993).

Stephen Royle and the late Tony Cross. ‘Wilberforce Arnold - St Helena colonial surgeon 1903-1925 (biography)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘Alexander The Rat - F. W. Alexander, Chief Censor, Deadwood Camp, St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘St Helena and the Great Fire of London (whether early inhabitants were victims of the Great Fire)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘The Parliamentarian and the Civil Servant: Two Views of St Helena in the 1950s (contrasting portrayals of St Helena in reports by Cledwyn Hughes MP and by Aaron Emanuel from the Colonial Office)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Review essay: The St Helena Monograph Project (comments about and criticism of a planned series of monographs by Robin Taylor about St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘The St Helena Independent (launch of newspaper in November 2005)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Review:  “St Helena: The Forgotten Island” by Quentin Keynes Bob Russell MP’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘A Brief History of Cinema on St Helena (covers the period between early 1900s to 1980s)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘The St Helena Tea-Gardens, London (description of tavern/tea-garden near Royal Dock Yard in Southwark on Corbets/Cobbets Lane, today known as St Helena Road.’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘CD Review: St Helena -1962 by Charles Frater’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Biography:  Capt. Matthew Bazett (d.1719)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 37 (2008).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Writing about St Helena: Purposes, motives and preparations’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 38 (2009).

SHATPS. ‘The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society publish a 20th Anniversary anthology of articles’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Anna Siraut and John Newman. ‘Obituaries:  Elizabeth Scholtz;  Alan Hoole CMG OBE’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Brian Smith. ‘Cecil Maggott - custodian of records (commentary on his contribution  following thirty years employment at St Helena’s archives)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Mure Smith. ‘The Friends of St Helena - what next?’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Mure Smith. ‘The Museum opens (on the 21st May 2002)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Terry Spens. ‘Green light for the 2002 appeal! (Friends’ support of the Museum Improvement Project)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Terry Spens. ‘The Museum Project of the St Helena Heritage Society (update on project)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Terry Spens. ‘The hand of affection (fund-raising for the Heritage Society to open the Jamestown museum)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Terry Spens. ‘Museum News’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

David Taylor. ‘Railways and rails of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Daily Telegraph, 29 November 1993. ‘Obituary:  Sir James Harford’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

Owen George/The Daily Telegraph. ‘Obituaries:  Alison Bevan nee Ogborn / The Right Reverend Edmund Capper’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

The Daily Telegraph. ‘Shooting straight to limelight (full-bore shooters from St Helena attend the Commonwealth Games)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Mike Thomson. ‘“From our own correspondent - St Helena” (BBC Radio 4 broadcast on 27 January 1994)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

John Turner. ‘Letter From St Helena (working from the top floor of the Post Office)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Members of Frost-Frater Film Unit. ‘Photographs of town and country 1962’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1991).

Neil Walklate. ‘Biography:  William Thomas of Coity, Wales, and St Helena (1797-1829)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 37 (2008).

Lord Beaumont of Whitley. ‘Correspondence (tribute to Trevor Hearl)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Andrew Whitworth. ‘St Helena's place in global information networks’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Angela Wigglesworth. ‘News:  Tax benefit (St Helena tax allowance increased from £1,200 to £2,000) / Cheaper calls (cost of weekend phone calls halved)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Angela Wigglesworth. ‘Fleeing carnage, Hutu boy stows away to St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Angela Wigglesworth. ‘Obituary:  Tony Cross and Trevor Hearl - A Tribute’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Dan Yon. ‘Obituary:  For Trevor Hearl’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Dan Yon. ‘St Helena Diaspora:  Writing and visualising the St Helena Diaspora:  One Hundred Men and Sathima's Windsong’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Anon. ‘Cutting the cake (photo, the 10th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Anon. ‘In memoriam: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1900-2002’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Anon. ‘The Return of the Martin Guerre of St Helena, from the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1825 (case in which fraudster who robbed woman after convincing her he was her son from St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Anon. ‘Correspondence (reaction to comments made about Parliamentary errors about St Helena in Issue 31)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

“Nauticus”. ‘Phenomenon at St Helena (description of the violent effect of rollers in 1821)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Portuguese Discovery and the Age of Exploration

The discovery of St Helena, Fernao Lopes, Portuguese maritime expansion, and the early navigators of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Axelson, Eric. 'Prince Henry the Navigator and the Discovery of the Sea Route to India'. The Geographical Journal 127, no. 2 (1961): 145-58.

Azzam, Abdul Rahman. The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of St Helena and a Paradise Lost. London: Icon Books, 2017.

Barros, João de. Da Asia de João de Barros e de Diogo de Couto (24 vols.). Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1778-88.

Beazley, C. Raymond. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895.

Berjeau, J. Ph., trans. Calcoen: A Dutch Narrative of the Second Voyage of Vasco da Gama to Calicut. London: B. M. Pickering, 1874.

Birch, Walter de Gray, trans. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, Vol. 3. London: Hakluyt Society, 1880.

Boehrer, George C. A. 'The Franciscans and Portuguese Colonization in Africa and the Atlantic Islands, 1415-1499'. The Americas 11, no. 3 (1955): 389-403.

Boothby, Richard. A Briefe Discovery or Description of the Most Famous Island of Madagascar or St Laurence in Asia. London, 1646. [EEBO-TCP, public domain]

Cardozo, Manoel. 'The Idea of History in the Portuguese Chroniclers of the Age of Discovery'. The Catholic Historical Review 49, no. 1 (1963): 1-19.

Crowley, Roger. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire. London: Faber & Faber, 2015. [publisher page; in-copyright]

Davies, Arthur. 'The "First" Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci in 1497-8'. The Geographical Journal 118, no. 3 (1952): 331-37.

Dias, Carlos Malheiro, ed. História da Colonização Portuguesa do Brasil. Porto: Litografia Nacional, 1921-24.

Disney, A. R. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 1: From Beginnings to 1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. [user upload, may be impermanent]

Domingues, Francisco Contente. 'Vasco da Gama's Voyage: Myths and Realities in Maritime History'. Portuguese Studies 19 (2003): 1-8.

Dunn, Joseph. 'The Brendan Problem'. Catholic Historical Review 6, no. 4 (January 1921): 395-477.

Ferguson, Donald. 'The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506'. Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 19, no. 59 (1907): 284-385.

Fontes da Costa, Palmira. 'Secrecy, Ostentation, and the Illustration of Exotic Animals in Sixteenth-Century Portugal'. Annals of Science 66, no. 1 (January 2009): 59-82.

Fontoura da Costa, A. 'The Discovery of Brazil in 1500'. International Hydrographic Review 16, no. 1 (1939): 113-23.

Greenlee, William Brooks, trans. The Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral to Brazil and India. London: Hakluyt Society, 1938.

Greenlee, William B. 'The Captaincy of the Second Portuguese Voyage to Brazil, 1501-1502'. The Americas 2, no. 1 (1945): 3-12.

Hearl, Trevor W. ‘St Helena Day’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015): 32–46. [sainthelenaisland.info, full PDF]

Hearl, Trevor W. ‘Everyone Knows João da Nova Castella Discovered St Helena – or Did He?’ Friends of St Helena, 2015. [Friends of St Helena, full PDF]

Ijoma, J. O. 'Portuguese Activities in West Africa before 1600: The Consequences'. Transafrican Journal of History 11 (1982): 136-46.

Kimble, George H. T. 'Portuguese Policy and Its Influence on Fifteenth Century Cartography'. Geographical Review 23, no. 4 (1933): 653-59.

Lane, Frederic C. 'The Mediterranean Spice Trade: Further Evidence of Its Revival in the Sixteenth Century'. American Historical Review 45, no. 3 (April 1940): 581-90.

Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van. The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies (2 vols.). Ed. Arthur Coke Burnell and P. A. Tiele. London: Hakluyt Society, 1885. (Contains the earliest printed description and drawings of St Helena.) [digitised on Archive.org (PAHAR mirror); see FIBIwiki listing]

Livermore, H. V. A History of Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. [page marked copyright-protected; view may be limited]

Livermore, Harold V. ‘Santa Helena, a Forgotten Portuguese Discovery’. Estudos em Homenagem a Luís António de Oliveira Ramos, 2004. [University of Porto, full PDF]

Livermore, Harold. 'Santa Helena, A Forgotten Portuguese Discovery''. Estudos Em HOmenagem a Louis Antonio de Oliveira Ramos, 2004, 623-631.

Martins, Jose Augusto Silva. 'Linschoten and the Dutch Maritime Expansion in the Seventeenth Century'. Accessed 5 October 2019.

McIntosh, Gregory C. The Piri Reis Map of 1513. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

McIntosh, Gregory C. The Vesconte Maggiolo World Map of 1504 in Fano, Italy. Plus Ultra Publishing, 2015. [Plus Ultra has no live site; ResearchGate holds a partial only. Relevant only if this, not the Piri Reis book, is your McIntosh title]

Metcalf, Alida C. 'Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map'. e-Perimetron 7, no. 1 (2012): 36-44.

Newitt, Malyn. 'Formal and Informal Empire in the History of Portuguese Expansion'. Portuguese Studies 17 (2001): 1-21.

Newitt, Malyn. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion, 1400-1668. London: Routledge, 2005.

Northrup, David. 'Vasco da Gama and Africa: An Era of Mutual Discovery, 1497-1800'. Journal of World History 9, no. 2 (1998): 189-211.

Nothnagle, John. 'Two Early French Voyages to Sumatra'. Sixteenth Century Journal 19, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 97-107.

O'Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 'Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets?'. Economic History Review 62, no. 3 (2009): 655-84.

Paine, Robert. 'Columbus and Anthropology and the Unknown'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 1 (1995): 47-69.

Randles, W. G. L. 'Portuguese and Spanish Attempts to Measure Longitude in the Sixteenth Century'. The Mariner's Mirror 81, no. 4 (1995): 402-08.

Ravenstein, E. G. 'The Voyages of Diogo Cão and Bartholomeu Dias, 1482-88'. The Geographical Journal 16, no. 6 (1900): 625-55.

Robinson, T. F. Thesis: William Roxburgh (1751-1815). University of Edinburgh, 2003.

Santos, T. A., N. Fonseca, and F. Castro. 'Naval Architecture Applied to the Reconstruction of an Early 17th Century Portuguese Nau'. Marine Technology and SNAME News 44, no. 4 (2007): 254-67.

Scammell, G. V. The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c. 1400-1715. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. 'Holding the World in Balance: The Connected Histories of the Iberian Overseas Empires, 1500-1640'. The American Historical Review 112, no. 5 (2007): 1359-85.

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. Travels in India (2 vols.), trans. V. Ball. London: Macmillan, 1889.

Tilley, Arthur. 'Rabelais and Geographical Discovery. I. The "Novus Orbis" of Simon Grynaeus'. Modern Language Review 2, no. 4 (1907): 316-26.

Uhden, R. 'The Oldest Portuguese Original Chart of the Indian Ocean, A.D. 1509'. Imago Mundi 3, no. 1 (1939): 7-11.

Wilson, William Jerome. 'The Textual Relations of the Thacher Manuscript on Columbus and Early Portuguese Navigations'. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 34, no. 3 (1940): 199-220.

Ólafsson, Jón. The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India. Trans. Bertha S. Phillpotts. London: Hakluyt Society, 1923.

Wirebird articles

Ian Bruce. ‘St Helena Day’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Ian Bruce. ‘The discovery of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Tony Cross. ‘Book Review: “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse (New Edition 1990)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Tony Cross. ‘Treasure Trove - St Helena's Day 1994 (discovery of watercolour paintings of Longwood house and Napoleon’s tomb)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

David Holt. ‘Some surprising St Helena  connections (discovery of Governor Wilks’ memorial tablet at the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair and further revelations about the Wilks family)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Discovery of the Endemic Invertebrates of St Helena and ‘The Belgians’ (description of past surveys and alleged extinction of species through over-collection of samples)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Fernao Lopes - St Helena's first settler - An English translation of the original account’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613 (an analysis of the earliest Portuguese ships and captains)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Errata to Wirebird No 28, “Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613”’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘The Tristan da Cunha Discovery Fleet, 1506, and a Suggested Exact Date of Discovery’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Fernão Lopes - a South Atlantic ‘Robinson Crusoe’’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Joao Da Nova and the lost carrack (correct rendering of Da Nova’s name and the truth behind the legend that Da Nova lost a carrack on the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘The discovery of St Helena: the search continues (investigation of which Portuguese discovered St Helena and when, based on documentary and cartographic evidence)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Recent Books of Interest (“Tristan da Cunha: History, People, Language” by Daniel Schreier and Karen Lavarello-Schreier/ “Isolation and Language Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan” by Daniel Schreier/ “Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002”/ “Journal of Historical Geography”, Vol.29’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book reviews: “Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002 “ by David Smallman; “The Proud and the Passionate” by Robert MacMillan Robertson’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Reviews:  “The Bennett Letters:  A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and Cape Town” by Colin Fox; “Fernão Lopes ‑ A South Atlantic Robinson Crusoe” by Beau W. Rowlands,’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

David Young. ‘Book Review:  “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

The East India Company, Trade, and the Maritime World

St Helena as an East India Company colony and victualling station, the Company's ships and servants, and the wider world of oceanic trade.

Anon, The Time-Ball of St. Helena, The Nautical Magazine, vol. 4 (London: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1835), 658-60.

Atkinson, C. T. The Proposed Expedition to the River Plate in 1798: Contemporary Letters of Colonel Robert Brooke, Governor of St Helena. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 26, no. 106 (1948): 69-76.

Bennett, Michael D. 'Caribbean Plantation Economies as Colonial Models: The Case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the Late Seventeenth Century'. Atlantic Studies 20, no. 4 (2023): 508-39.

Bensassi, Sami. 'From Regional to Intercontinental Trade: The Successive European Trade Empires from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century in Asia'. MPRA Paper 23637. Munich: University Library of Munich, 2010.

Bowen, H. V., Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid, eds. Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. [Cambridge Core; all chapters paywalled]

Boxer, C. R. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800. London: Hutchinson, 1965.

Boxer, C. R. 'Some Second Thoughts on the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 19 (1969): 67-94.

Brandreth, Henry Rowland, and Edward Walpole. A Precarious Livelihood: St Helena 1834: East India Company Outpost to Crown Colony. Edited by Colin Fox and Edward Baldwin. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2016.

Bruce, John. Annals of the Honorable East-India Company, from Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707–8 (3 vols.). London: Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, 1810.

Chatterton, E. Keble. The Old East Indiamen. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1914.

Cotton, Sir Evan. East Indiamen: The East India Company's Maritime Service, ed. Sir Charles Fawcett. London: Batchworth Press, 1949.

Crouch, Nathaniel (R.B.). The English Empire in America. London: Nath. Crouch, 1698.

Davis, Ralph. The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London: Macmillan, 1962.

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Farrington, Anthony. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834. London: The British Library, 1999.

Foster, William. 'The Acquisition of St. Helena'. The English Historical Review XXXIV, no. CXXXV (1 July 1919): 281-89.

Fox, Colin. The Bennett Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and the Cape. Gloucester: The Choir Press, 2006.

Fox, Colin. A Bitter Draught: St Helena and the Abolition of Slavery, 1792–1840. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2017.

Furber, Holden. 'The Beginnings of American Trade with India, 1784-1812'. The New England Quarterly 11, no. 2 (1938): 235-65.

Games, Alison. 'Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography'. In Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders, edited by Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, 357-72. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

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Grove, Richard H. ‘Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and Their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660 to 1854’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 2 (1993): 318–51. [Cambridge Core; in-copyright]

Grove, Richard. 'Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and Their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660 to 1854'. Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 2 (1993): 318-51.

Günaydın, Adem. 'A Comparison of Dutch and English East India Companies'. Master's thesis, 2011.

Hakluyt, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation (12 vols.). Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-05.

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Hook, Theodore Edward, Facts, illustrative of the treatment of Napoleon Buonaparte in Saint Helena, London, W. Stockdale, 1819

Irwin, Douglas A. 'Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade'. Journal of Political Economy 99, no. 6 (December 1991): 1296-314.

Jeula, Henry. 'Some Statistics Relating to the Traffic Through the Suez Canal; to Merchant Vessels Touching at St. Helena; and to Losses Posted on "Lloyd's Loss Book"'. Journal of the Statistical Society of London 35, no. 3 (1872), 327-33.

Kendrick, T. D. British Antiquity. London: Methuen, 1950.

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McAleer, John. 'Looking East: St Helena, the South Atlantic and Britain's Indian Ocean World'. Atlantic Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 85-107.

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Pearson, Andrew. 'Lemon Valley, St Helena: An East India Company and British Colonial Landscape in the South Atlantic'. Post-Medieval Archaeology 57, no. 1 (2023): 51-74.

Pearson, Andrew. ‘Lemon Valley, St Helena: An East India Company and British Colonial Landscape in the South Atlantic’. Post-Medieval Archaeology 57, no. 1 (2023): 51–74.

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Royle, Stephen A. The Company’s Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007. [publisher page; in-copyright]

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Stern, Philip J. 'Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State: The Case of St Helena, 1673-1709'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 35, no. 1 (March 2007): 1-23.

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Sutton, Jean. Lords of the East: The East India Company and Its Ships (1600-1874). London: Conway Maritime Press, 1981; rev. 2000. [Conway is now a Bloomsbury imprint; if the page is dead, please supply a British Library record]

Swartz, Rebecca, and Johan Wassermann. '"Britishness", Colonial Governance and Education: St Helenian Children in Colonial Natal in the 1870s'. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44, no. 6 (2016): 881-899.

Tobin, George. Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; Including Some Sketches from Later Voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811. Watercolour album, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. [State Library of NSW, fully digitised; picture album]

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Winterbottam, Anna E. Thesis: 'Company Culture: Information, Scholarship, and the East India Company Settlements 1660-1720s'. Queen Mary, University of London, 2010.

Wise, Henry. An Analysis of One Hundred Voyages to and from India, China, &c. London, 1839. [Google Books, full view]

Wright, Laura. 'On the East India Company Vocabulary of the Island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1676-1720', 2015.

Wirebird articles

Anna and John Siraut. ‘Citizenship by 2002 is the aim of island-loving MP (Bob Russell’s speech at the October Friends meeting)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘How to keep in touch - and to help the Island and its people (The St Helena Association; The Link Committee; The St Helena Diocesan Association; The South Atlantic Working Group; The Island Commission on Citizenship’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘Saint at the wheel (Rodney Young becomes the first Saint to captain the RMS)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anon. ‘Diary of a passenger on the “Seagull” on her maiden voyage from South Africa, 1866’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Bill Beattie. ‘The Loss of the SS Papanui, 1911:  A Letter (from a passenger en-route to Australia)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

Andrew Bell. ‘The Birth of St Helena's Own Shipping Service (description of events leading to Curnow Shipping winning contract to operate St Helena’s shipping link)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Ian Bruce. ‘The SS Papanui (the final voyage and the fire on this and its sister ship)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Ian Bruce. ‘Boothby's Arrival (the dangers of landing & later occupation by the EIC)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Jon Bursey. ‘The 36th Governor Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Elliott (Description of overall career)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Dennis Bush-King. ‘Our Melliss Family - A St Helena Connection (The Life of John Melliss who was an Assistant Surgeon in the HEIC, posted to St Helena) - Dennis Bush-King’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Tony Cross. ‘Cardiff, 8th June 1991 (a visit to the RMS St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

'Tony Cross. ‘The last voyage (description of the destruction of the Papanui by fire in 1911)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘The story of the S.S. Papanui - Continued (extracts from “The Wirebird”, 1957)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘News:  Renewal of Curnow Shipping’s contract to provide shipping service to St Helena; Death of Mrs Hugh Crallan’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘From The Editor's Post Bag:  Ian Mathieson on the Ascension Castaway story in Issue 1; St Helena Citizenship Commission Report’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘Fairport (description of a four-masted barque and its connection to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘Two members honoured (Allan Crawford and Trevor Hearl awarded Honary Life Membership of the Friends)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 2 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Charles Darwin. ‘Extracts from “A naturalist’s voyage around the world"’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Dorothy Evans. ‘The Launching of the new RMS St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Colin Fox. ‘Information ref. researching at the British Library (St Helena East Company records) - Colin Fox’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Robin Gill. ‘How far is St Helena from the Gates of Trafalgar? (Midshipman Horatio Nelson’s visit to St Helena in 1776)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Richard Grainger. ‘World affairs and their effect on St Helena shipping (description of shipping calling at or passing St Helena, mainly in the 1960s’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 38 (2009).

J. Hale. ‘Correspondence (comment on ownership of RMS St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Hansard. ‘A debate in the House of Lords, 1 February 1994 (opportunities for work, citizenship, right of abode and access)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

K. A. Harwood. ‘Thoughts on the “Papanui” articles’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Commodore Perry at St Helena in 1853’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Censorship St Helena-style (an analysis of government control over the island’s news media)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Trevor Hearl. ‘St Helena's 16th century astronaut - the adventures of Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger (portrayal of St Helena in fictional account of a voyage to the moon)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Trevor Hearl. ‘A philatelic conundrum (letters from St Helena carry Cardiff post mark following breakdown of RMS at sea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Australia's First Fleet: A St Helena Sequel (description of St Helena in 1792 by Lieut. Bradley on HMS Sirius on homeward voyage after shipping first batch of convicts to Australia)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

Terence Holmes. ‘R.M.S. St Helena Island’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

John Humphries. ‘A Timely tribute’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

David Jones, medal Section, Maritime & Coastguard Section. ‘RMS crew miss Falklands medal by two days (ministerial response to Pamela Ward’s appeal for recognition of Saints role in the Falklands conflict)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Mr Hall of Oxford. ‘Hall's Diary 1885-6 (Extract from a diary of a voyage from Australia describing visit to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Andy Parker. ‘Sailing Equipped’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Katherine Pearson. ‘Isambard Kingdom Brunel, steam ships and St Helena: the visit of the SS Great Britain, 1852’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613 (an analysis of the earliest Portuguese ships and captains)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Errata to Wirebird No 28, “Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613”’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘The BOU checklist The Birds of St Helena - an update on birds, and relevant ships’ movements, 1942 and 1944 (new St Helena birds listed by British Ornithologist’s Union; tracing WWII ship movements from records held by Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Joao Da Nova and the lost carrack (correct rendering of Da Nova’s name and the truth behind the legend that Da Nova lost a carrack on the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘DVD Review: “RMS St Helena: A South Atlantic Voyage” by Gisela Kraus & Günther Benze’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Review: “RMS St Helena and the South Atlantic Islands” by Robert A. Wilson’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Review: “The Company's Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour” by Stephen Royle’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 38 (2009).

Fraser Simm. ‘St Helena - beacon of hope (description of the sinking of S.S. City of Cairo in 1942)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Brian Smith. ‘An English ship at St Helena, 1617 (details of an early landing by Captain William Keeling)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Mure Smith. ‘This year, next year, sometime? (Commentary on the delay in restoring British citizenship to Saints)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Canon Nicholas Turner. ‘Citizenship Commission update (issuing of full UK passports to Saints in 2002)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Stephane Van de Velde. ‘Chasing the Slavers:  The establishment of the Vice Admiralty Court of St Helena and its early cases’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Mark Vincent. ‘Curnow news (changes in personnel)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Pamela Ward. ‘It’s never too late (letter to the Prime Minister calling for the efforts of Saints working at Ascension and on the RMS to be properly recognised)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Angela Wigglesworth. ‘Letter: Resignation as editor of Wirebird due to illness.  Editorship assumed by Anna and John Siraut’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Dan Yon. ‘The One Hundred Men: on questions of race, identity and belonging’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

Anon. ‘Curnow Shipping Fraud Case (accusations that former executives of Curnow Shipping conspired to defraud St Helena Line Ltd collapse in court case)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Anon. ‘Voyage of EIC Ship William Pitt to St Helena 1819’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Voyages, Travel Accounts, and Views

Published voyages and travellers' narratives that call at St Helena, together with the aquatint and engraved 'Views' of the island.

Anon. Recollections of St Helena. The United Service Magazine 122 (January 1870): 256-65.

Anon (By a Bird of Passage), Saint Helena, Houlston and Wright, London, 1865

Barnes, John, A Tour through the Island of St. Helena; with notices of its geology, mineralogy, botany, &c. &c. collected during a residence of twelve years; with some particulars respecting the arrival and detention of Napoleon Buonaparte, M. Richardson: London, 1817

Bellasis, G. H., Views of St. Helena, London, Tyler, 1815

Bligh, William, W. W. Doveton, Alexander Anderson, James Seton, and Henry Shirley. 'Paper in Colonies and Trade'. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 12 (1794): 303-17.

Boothby, Richard. A Briefe Discovery or Description of the Most Famous Island of Madagascar or St Laurence in Asia. London, 1646. [EEBO-TCP, public domain]

Colvocoresses, George M., Four years in a government exploring expedition to the island of Madeira, Cape Verd islands, Brazil, Coast of Patagonia, Chili, Peru, Paumato Group, Society Islands, Navigator Group, Australia, Antarctic Continent, New Zealand, Friendly Islands, Fejee Group, Sandwich Islands, Northwest Coast of America, Oregon, California, East Indies, St. Helena, &c., &c., New York : Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1852 (St Helena is discussed in chapter 25, from p 353)

David, Andrew. Bligh's Successful Breadfruit Voyage. RSA Journal 141, no. 5444 (1993): 821-24.

Duncan, Francis (M. D.), A description of the Island of St. Helena, R. Phillips, 1805

Fowler, T.E.,Views of St. Helena, London, Day & Son, 1863

Galway, Henry L. 'A Sojourn in St. Helena'. Journal of the Royal African Society 40, no. 160 (1941): 223-37.

Gillespie, Alexander. Gleanings and Remarks Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper Country. Leeds: B. Dewhirst, 1818.

Godwin, Francis. The Man in the Moone: or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither. London: John Norton, 1638.

Green, Lawrence G. There’s a Secret Hid Away: Memories of Unusual Experiences and Mysteries in Southern Africa and African Isles. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1956. (St Helena features from chapter 20.) [digitised on Archive.org; see FIBIwiki listing]

Green, Lawrence G. Eight Bells at Salamander. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1960.

Hall, Basil, Voyage to Loo-Choo, and other places in the eastern seas, in the year 1816. Including an account of Captain Maxwell's attack on the batteries at Canton; and notes of an interview with Buonaparte at St. Helena, in August 1817, Edinburgh, A. Constable & Co., 1826 (St Helena discussed Chapter 7, from page 302)

Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. New York: A. L. Fowle, 1900.

Lee, Ida. Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the South Sea. London: Longmans, Green, 1920.

Lockwood, Joseph, A Guide to St. Helena, descriptive and historical, with a visit to Longwood, and Napoleon's Tomb (with a Sketch of the History of the Island Saint Helena), 1851, Geo. Gibb, St Helena

McKay, Helen M. 'William John Burchell in St. Helena'. South African Journal of Science 31, no. 07 (1934): 481-489.

Melliss, G. W., Views of St. Helena: illustrative of its scenery and historical association, St Helena, 1857

Murdoch, Lynas, Four Years on St Helena, AuthorHouse, 2010

Pocock, William Innes, Five Views of the Island of St. Helena, from drawings taken on the spot, to which is added a concise account of the Island, Fuller, London, 1815

Spalding, J. W., The Japan expedition. Japan and around the world; an account of three visits to the Japanese empire, with sketches of Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, China, and Loo-Choo, New York, Redfield, 1855. (St Helena is covered in Chapter 2 from p 36).

Stewart, Charles Samuel, A visit to the South Seas: in the United States' ship Vincennes during the years 1829 and 1830, including Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, Vol 2, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1832 (St Helena is described from chapter 77, page 332)

Taylor, Charles, Five years in China. With some account of the great rebellion, and a description of St. Helena, J. B. McFerrin; New York, 1819 (see chapter 31, page 394 for the section on St Helena)

Tobin, George. Sketches on H.M.S. Providence; Including Some Sketches from Later Voyages on Thetis and Princess Charlotte, 1791-1811. Watercolour album, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. [State Library of NSW, fully digitised; picture album]

Vernon, B. J, Early recollections of Jamaica with the particulars of an eventful passage home via New York and Halifax, at the commencement of the American War in 1812; to which are added, trifles from St. Helena relating to Napoleon and his suite, London: Whittaker and Co: Oxford: J. (St Helena is discussed from page 149)

Walker, John. 'St Helena as I Saw It: Extracted from a Travelling Diary'. Albury, New South Wales: Adams, Cooper & Adams, 1886

Walond, R. F., A transport voyage to the Mauritius and back; touching at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, John Murray, London. 1851 (St Helena is described in chapter 8 from page 293)

Warden, William, Letters written on board His Majesty's ship the Northumberland, and at St. Helena in which the conduct and conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte, and his suite, during the voyage, and the first months of his residence in that island, are faithfully described and related, Published for the author, by R. Ackermann, London, 1816

Wathen, James, A series of views illustrative of the island of St Helena, Clay, London, 1821

Ólafsson, Jón. The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India. Trans. Bertha S. Phillpotts. London: Hakluyt Society, 1923.

Wirebird articles

Colin Fox [ed]. ‘Encounters with the slavers: Excerpts from the diary of Hamilton Laird 1849’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Anon. ‘Diary of a passenger on the “Seagull” on her maiden voyage from South Africa, 1866’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Victor Blair. ‘Superman or media hype at St Helena? (Newspaper story of a clandestine visit to Longwood in 1818)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Ian Bruce. ‘Boothby's Arrival (the dangers of landing & later occupation by the EIC)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Julian Cairns-Wicks. ‘The Cairns-Wicks Column (air flights to St Helena a viable alternative to travel by sea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Max Chapman. ‘Oswell Blakeston visits the island in 1956’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Tony Cross and Elizabeth Gocher. ‘Book Review (Supplement):  “The Emperor’s Last Stand, A Journey to St Helena” by Julia Blackburn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘Cardiff, 8th June 1991 (a visit to the RMS St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 1 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

Tony Cross. ‘South Atlantic Triangle, Part 2 (personal account of RMS voyage, November/December 1996)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Dorothy Evans. ‘My fourth visit to the island’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Operation Raleigh - the experiences of  two St Helenians (student projects experienced in Zimbabwe)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Sixth visit to St Helena, July 1997’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Dorothy Evans. ‘A journey of a lifetime (a visit to Tristan Da Cunha in 1999)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Colin Fox. ‘Henry Russell, A Nabob's sojourn on St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Charles B. Frater. ‘Some memories of 1962 (recollections of visit to St Helena in 1962)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Charles Frater. ‘A special report of a 1997 visit to Diana's Peak national park illustrated from a video made at the time’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Owen George. ‘Reflections on a Visit to St Helena (edited draft of address given at the 2004 AGM)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Robin Gill. ‘How far is St Helena from the Gates of Trafalgar? (Midshipman Horatio Nelson’s visit to St Helena in 1776)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Sizakele Gumede. ‘The French connection: visits to the graves of Napoleon and the Prince Imperial’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Jane Hall. ‘Plantation Notes’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

K. A. Harwood. ‘Return to St Helena - “A Short Term Expert” alias “The Glass Man” (description of St Helena visit)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book Review:  “Exploring St Helena: A Walker's Guide” by Ian Mathieson and Laurence Carter’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

Trevor Hearl. ‘Book review: “Napoleon in Exile - The Houses and Furniture supplied by the British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St Helena” by Martin Levy’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Court Circular:  The Princess Royal at St Helena (diary of Princess Anne’s visit, November 2002)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Edward Hibbert. ‘A visit to St Helena in 1972’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Cathy Hopkins. ‘‘Same old t’ings’ from your own correspondent (diary of May - September 2001 St Helena election period)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Jean Johnston. ‘St Helena diary, part 1 (recording a visit in 1961/2, being part of a small group making the film “Island of St Helena”)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 13 (1996).

Jean Johnston. ‘St Helena diary, part 2 (recording a visit in 1961/2, being part of a small group making the film “Island of St Helena")’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Bob Johnston. ‘To St Helena - Christmas 1996, part 1 (letter to Charles and Julia Frater describing island visit)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

Bob Johnston. ‘To St Helena - Christmas 1996, part 2 (letter to Charles and Julia Frater describing island visit)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Robert H. Johnston. ‘Historic Saint Helena:  Island Near the Sun (description of a visit to the island in January 1962)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 39 (2010).

Roger Jones. ‘British Parliamentarians visit St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

Simon Levell. ‘A Week of Highs and Lows: Cycling Round St Helena - Part 1’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Simon Levell. ‘A Week of Highs and Lows: Cycling Round St Helena - Part 2’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Simon Levell. ‘Potato Patch Pedal Power: Exploring Tristan da Cunha by Bicycle’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

Ian Mathieson. ‘How did Napoleon die?  A review of some new books on the subject (“Assassination at St Helena Revisited” by Ben Weider and Sven Forschufvud; “The Fall of Napoleon” by David Hamilton-Williams; “Jack Juggler and the Emperor’s Whore” by John Arden’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Ian Mathieson. ‘A visit to Tristan Da Cunha (describing a visit in 1998)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Book Reviews: “St Helena 500: A Chronological History of the Island” by Robil Gill and percy Teale; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “St Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History”; “His Majesty’s Grant of the Island of St Helena” by Jeff Cant; “Come with me to St Helena” by B. W. Marshall; “A Tourist Guide to the Anglo-Boer War” by Trevor Westby-Nunn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Mr Hall of Oxford. ‘Hall's Diary 1885-6 (Extract from a diary of a voyage from Australia describing visit to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Katherine Pearson. ‘Isambard Kingdom Brunel, steam ships and St Helena: the visit of the SS Great Britain, 1852’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Mrs Postans. ‘The Emperor's Grave:  A sketch of St Helena,1839 (in addition to section about the tomb, also includes a description of visit including disembarkation, buildings, botanical gardens, Saul Solomon and Longwood)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

David Ranzan. ‘An island of historical attraction: A young American Sailor's visit to the island of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Dulcie Robertson. ‘Home once more (description of fifth home visit to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘The Museum prize raffle visit to St Helena (visit in November 2000)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘I was a Foreign Office Consultant: Big fish on a small island or catching wahoo off Ascension (description of one-month visit)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Reviews:  “St Helena - The Chinese Connection: The History of the Chinese Indentured Labourers On St. Helena 1810-1836 and beyond” by Barbara George; “St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha - The Bradt Travel Guide” by Sue Steiner’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Reviews:  “The Monsters of St Helena” by Brooks Hansen / “Turtle Island:  A journey to Britain’s Oldest Colony” by Sergio Ghione’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Recent Books of Interest (“Scanty Particulars”:  The life of Dr James Barry” by Rachel Holmes / “Outpost:  Journeys to the surviving relics of the British empire” by Simon Winchester / “The Pirate Hunter:  The true story of Captain Kidd” by Richard Zacks’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book review: Ben Fogle, “The Teatime Islands: Journeys to Britain’s Faraway Outposts”’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Mure Smith. ‘A longer holiday on St Helena (two-month holiday in 1997)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Takeshi Sugimoto. ‘The Historic Japanese Visitors to St. Helena (a literature survey) - Takeshi Sugimoto (Kanagawa University)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Rev John Walker. ‘St Helena as I saw it: 1886’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Anon. ‘Comments from the Visitor& Book (567 comments left on day of opening and 586 over next 9 weeks)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Cartography, Maps, and Surveying

The mapping of St Helena and the Atlantic, the history of cartography, and the surveys and charts in which the island featured.

Crone, G. R. Maps and Their Makers: An Introduction to the History of Cartography. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1953.

Fontoura da Costa, A. 'The Discovery of Brazil in 1500'. International Hydrographic Review 16, no. 1 (1939): 113-23.

Gaspar, Joaquim Alves. 'Blunders, Errors and Entanglements: Scrutinizing the Cantino Planisphere with a Cartometric Eye'. Imago Mundi 64, no. 2 (2012): 181-200.

Gaspar, Joaquim Alves. 'The Planisphere of Juan de la Cosa (1500): The First Padrón Real or the Last of Its Kind?'. Terrae Incognitae 49, no. 1 (2017): 1-20.

Harley, J. B. 'Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe'. Imago Mundi 40 (1988): 57-76.

Hinks, Arthur R. Maps and Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.

Kimble, George H. T. 'Portuguese Policy and Its Influence on Fifteenth Century Cartography'. Geographical Review 23, no. 4 (1933): 653-59.

Markham, Clements R. Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography. London: Macmillan, 1895.

McIntosh, Gregory C. The Piri Reis Map of 1513. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

McIntosh, Gregory C. The Vesconte Maggiolo World Map of 1504 in Fano, Italy. Plus Ultra Publishing, 2015. [Plus Ultra has no live site; ResearchGate holds a partial only. Relevant only if this, not the Piri Reis book, is your McIntosh title]

Melliss, G. W., Views of St. Helena: illustrative of its scenery and historical association, St Helena, 1857

Metcalf, Alida C. 'Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map'. e-Perimetron 7, no. 1 (2012): 36-44.

Metcalf, Alida C. 'Who Cares Who Made the Map? La Carta del Cantino and Its Anonymous Maker'. e-Perimetron 12, no. 1 (2017): 1-23.

Palmer, Edmund. 'Notes to Accompany the Map of St. Helena'. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 30 (1860): 260-266.

Roukema, Edzer. 'Some Remarks on the La Cosa Map'. Imago Mundi 14 (1959): 38-54.

Roukema, E. 'Brazil in the Cantino Map'. Imago Mundi 17 (1963): 7-26.

Siebold, Jim. 'Slide #306 Monograph: Chart for the Navigation of the Islands Lately Discovered in the Parts of India, Known as the Cantino World Map'. Cartographic Images, 2015.

Uhden, R. 'The Oldest Portuguese Original Chart of the Indian Ocean, A.D. 1509'. Imago Mundi 3, no. 1 (1939): 7-11.

Van Duzer, Chet. 'Cartographic Invention: The Southern Continent on Vatican MS Urb. Lat. 274, Folios 73v-74r (c.1530)'. Imago Mundi 59, no. 2 (2007): 193-222.

Wade, Geoff. 'The "Liu/Menzies" World Map: A Critique'. e-Perimetron 2, no. 4 (Autumn 2007): 273-80.

Wirebird articles

Myrtle Ashmole. ‘Endemic Invertebrates, the Airport and the St Helena Environment Charter (description of past studies of endemic invertebrates, their disappearance and impact of new airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Ian Bruce & John Turner. ‘Lafitte’s Map (the first detailed map of Jamestown)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Discovery of the Endemic Invertebrates of St Helena and ‘The Belgians’ (description of past surveys and alleged extinction of species through over-collection of samples)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘The discovery of St Helena: the search continues (investigation of which Portuguese discovered St Helena and when, based on documentary and cartographic evidence)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Takeshi Sugimoto. ‘The Historic Japanese Visitors to St. Helena (a literature survey) - Takeshi Sugimoto (Kanagawa University)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Canon Nicholas Turner. ‘At last - the real Royal Charter (publication of the first definitive edition of the 1673 Royal Charter)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

James R Wylor-Owen, Beth Taylor, Kenickie Andrews. ‘A record of novel natural history observations from the first comprehensive period of visual marine surveying of St Helena's Marine Protected Area’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Napoleon's Exile, Captivity, and Death

The exile of Napoleon on St Helena (1815-1821): eyewitness memoirs, the Longwood household, the controversy with Hudson Lowe, and the debate over his death.

Abbott, John Stevens Cabot, Napoleon at St. Helena: or, interesting anecdotes and remarkable conversations of the emperor during the five and a half years of his captivity collected from the memorials of Las Cases, Montholon, Antommarchi and others, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1855

Abell, Mrs, (Late Miss Elizabeth/Betsy Balcombe), Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, during the first three years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena: including the time of his residence at her father's house, "The Briars", John Murray, London, 1844

Allen, H. Merian. 'Napoleon: A False Note in History'. The Sewanee Review 22, no. 2 (1914): 206-12.

Anon, Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte, his ministers, his generals, his soldiers, and his times. His disinterment at St. Helena, and his second internment in France, London, undated

Bhattacharya, Kaushik, and Neela Bhattacharya. 'Napoleon Bonaparte: An Emperor Who Died Needing Good Surgical Care'. Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine 4, no. 4 (2022): 174-76.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, Montholon, Charles-Tristan, Napoleon's Appeal to the British nation, on his treatment at Saint Helena, the official memoir, dictated by him and delivered to Sir Hudson Lowe, William Hone, London, 1817

Brookes, Mabel (Dame). St Helena Story. London: Heinemann, 1960. (On Napoleon’s exile and the Balcombe family of The Briars.) [out of print; second-hand listing the nearest stable record]

Chaplin, Arnold. The Illness and Death of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Medical Criticism. London: Hirschfeld, 1913.

Clifford, Sir Hugh. 'The Earliest Exile of St Helena'. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 173 (1903): 621-33.

Clifford, Herbert John. 'A Visit to Longwood'

Cockburn, George, Sir, Buonaparte's voyage to St. Helena; comprising the diary of Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, during his passage from England to St. Helena, in 1815, Boston, Lilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833

Di Costanzo, Jacques. 'Gastrointestinal Diseases of Napoleon in Saint Helena: Causes of Death'. Science Progress 85, no. 4 (2002): 359-67.

Duhamel, Jean. The Fifty Days: Napoleon in England. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. No publisher web page exists for this 1970 title (out of print; second-hand only).

Forsyth, William, History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the letters and journals of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and official documents not before made public, J. Murray, London, 1853 Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Fox, Colin. The Bennett Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and the Cape. Gloucester: The Choir Press, 2006.

Fremeaux, Paul; Rieu, Alfred, The Drama of Saint Helena, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1910

Gonnard, Philippe, The exile of St. Helena, the last phase in fact and fiction, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909

Gorrequer, Gideon. St. Helena During Napoleon’s Exile: Gorrequer’s Diary. Ed. James Kemble. London: Heinemann, 1969.

Gourgaud, Gaspard, Baron; Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud: together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St. Helena, Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903.

Hook, Theodore Edward, Facts, illustrative of the treatment of Napoleon Buonaparte in Saint Helena, London, W. Stockdale, 1819

Humphreys, A. L., Napoleon: Extracts from the "Times" and "Morning chronicle" 1815-1821 relating to Napoleon's life at St. Helena, Privately Printed, London. 1901

Jackson, Basil, Notes and reminiscences of a staff officer, chiefly relating to the Waterloo campaign and to St. Helena matters during the captivity of Napoleon, John Murray, London. 1903 (St Helena is covered from Chapter 11, p 111)

Keith, Arthur, An Address On The History And Nature Of Certain Specimens Alleged To Have Been Obtained At The Post-Mortem Examination Of Napoleon The Great

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de. Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. London: Henry Colburn, 1823.

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonne, Comte de, Memorial de Sainte Helene, Journal of the private life and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Printed for Henry Colburn, London Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

Levy, Martin. 'Napoleon In Exile: The Houses And Furniture Supplied By The British Government For The Emperor And His Entourage On St Helena'. Furniture History 34 (1998): 1-211.

Lugli, Alessandro, Fatima Carneiro, Heather Dawson, Jean-François Fléjou, Richard Kirsch, Rachel S. van der Post, Michael Vieth, and Magali Svrcek. 'The Gastric Disease of Napoleon Bonaparte: Brief Report for the Bicentenary of Napoleon's Death on St. Helena in 1821'. Virchows Archiv 479, no. 5 (2021): 1055-60.

Lullin de Chateauvieux, Frederic, Manuscript transmitted from St. Helena, by an unknown channel, London, J. Murray, 1817

Lutyens, Engelbert; Knowles, Sir Lees, A Gift of Napoleon, being a sequel to Letters of Captain Engelbert Lutyens, orderly officer at Longwood, Saint Helena, Feb. 1820 to Nov. 1823, 1921

Maitland, Frederick Lewis. Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and of His Residence on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon. London: Henry Colburn, 1826.

Malcolm, Clementina E., A Diary of St Helena (1816, 1817): the Journal of Lady Malcolm. Containing the Conversations of Napoleon with Sir Pulteney Malcolm, A. D. Innes & Co, London, 1899

Meynell, Henry, Conversations with Napoleon at St. Helena, London, Humphreys, 1911

Montholon, Charles-Tristan, comte de, History of the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, London H. Colburn, 1846 Volume 1 Volume 2

Murray, J. F. 'Napoleon-of What Did He Die?' South African Medical Journal 45, no. 36 (1971): 1005-1009.

Musson, R. M. W., and D. N. Holt. 'Napoleon's Earthquake: The Seismicity of St. Helena'. Seismological Research Letters 72, no. 6 (2001): 712-19.

O'Meara, Barry, Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice from St. Helena, the opinions and reflections of Napoleon on the most important events of his life and government, in his own words, London, R. Bentley & Son, 1889 Volume 1 Volume 2

Ocampo, Emilio. 'The Attempt to Rescue Napoleon with a Submarine: Fact or Fiction?' Napoleonica. LaRevue N 11, no. 2 (1 October 2011): 11-31.

O’Meara, Barry Edward. Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822.

Phyfe, William Henry Pinkney, Napoleon, the Return from Saint Helena, G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1907

Pillans, T. Dundas, The Real Martyr of St. Helena, New York, Mcbride, Nast & Company, 1913

Rosebery, Lord. Napoleon: The Last Phase. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1900.

Rosebery, Lord, Napoleon, the last phase, London, A. L. Humphreys, 1906

Runciman, Walter Runciman, The tragedy of St. Helena, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911

Saint Denis, Louis Etienne (also known as Ali), Napoleon from the Tuileries to St. Helena, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1922

Santini, Noel, An appeal to the British nation on the treatment experienced by Napoleon Buonaparte in the Island of St. Helena, with an authentic copy of the official memoir dictated by Napoleon, and delivered to Sir Hudson Lowe, London, Printed for Ridgways, 1817

Shorter, Clement, Napoleon and his fellow travellers; being a reprint of certain narratives of the voyages of the dethroned emperor on the Bellerophon and the Northumberland to exile in St. Helena, Cassell & Co, London, 1908

Sibalis, Michael. 'Conspiracy on St. Helena? (Mis) Remembering Napoleon's Exile.' French History & Civilization 4 (2011).

Smith, David Baird. 'St. Helena in 1817'. The Scottish Historical Review 19, no. 76 (1922): 273-82.

St. M. Watson, G. L. de. 'Gorrequer at St. Helena'. History 1, no. 3 (1912): 183-88.

Stokoe, Edith S., With Napoleon At St. Helena, John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1902

Thomason, Henry D., Napoleon, the first emperor of France. From St. Helena to Santiago de Cuba. Being a summary of facts concerning the latter days of Dr. Francois Antomarchi, the last physician to His Imperial Majesty, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., Kansas City, 1910

Watson, G. L. de St. M. A Polish Exile with Napoleon. London: Harper, 1912.

Wheeler, Harold F. B. Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror, Vol. 1. London: John Lane, 1908. [Vol. 2: here]

Wilks, Mark, Colonel Wilks and Napoleon: Two conversations held at St. Helena in 1816, John Murray, London, 1901

Wilson, J. B. 'Dr. Archibald Arnott: Surgeon to the 20th Foot and Physician to Napoleon'. British Medical Journal 3, no. 5978 (1975): 293-95.

Young, Norwood, Napoleon in exile: St. Helena (1815-1821), London, S. Paul & Co, 1915 Volume 1 Volume 2

Young, Norwood, and A. M. Broadley. Napoleon in Exile: St. Helena (1815–1821). London: Stanley Paul, 1915.

Wirebird articles

Victor Blair. ‘Superman or media hype at St Helena? (Newspaper story of a clandestine visit to Longwood in 1818)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Tony Cross and Elizabeth Gocher. ‘Book Review (Supplement):  “The Emperor’s Last Stand, A Journey to St Helena” by Julia Blackburn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Tony Cross. ‘Treasure Trove - St Helena's Day 1994 (discovery of watercolour paintings of Longwood house and Napoleon’s tomb)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘Book Review:  “My Napoleon” by Catherine Brighton’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 15 (1997).

Charles Dickens. ‘Pictures from Italy: ‘The Death of Napoleon’ (description of play seen in Genoa in 1844-5)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Random recollections - the other Briars (St Helena’s Briars and its Australian namesake)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Extracts from three letters from Mr Michael Titmarsh to Miss Smith of London (disinterment of Napoleon at St Helena in 1840)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

Colin Fox. ‘Sir Stamford Raffles interview with Napoleon’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Colin Fox. ‘Napoleon Bonaparte POW’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Colin Fox. ‘Napoleon’s Coffin (was it partly made from a domestic mahogany table?)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Richard Grainger. ‘Doctor Verling (A Surgeon during Napoleon's imprisonment on St Helena) - Richard Grainger’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Sizakele Gumede. ‘The French connection: visits to the graves of Napoleon and the Prince Imperial’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The mahogany table mystery - a Napoleonic legend from St Helena (use of mahogany table for coffin)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The Longwood and Briars Museums’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 18 (1998).

Trevor Hearl. ‘Book review: “Napoleon in Exile - The Houses and Furniture supplied by the British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St Helena” by Martin Levy’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘‘Derby Days’ at Deadwood: Highlights of Horse-racing at St Helena - Part 1 (horse-racing during the Napoleonic and an earlier period)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘‘Derby Days’ at Deadwood: Highlights of Horse-racing at St Helena - Part 2 (horse-racing during the Napoleonic and a later period)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘How Secure Was St Helena in 1815? (commentary of James Johnson’s description of St Helena as a secure place to hold Napoleon)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

Ian Mathieson. ‘The Napoleon I collection of the late Mr Allan Lazarus (description of 35 lots by Sotheby’s, several relating to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Ian Mathieson. ‘How did Napoleon die?  A review of some new books on the subject (“Assassination at St Helena Revisited” by Ben Weider and Sven Forschufvud; “The Fall of Napoleon” by David Hamilton-Williams; “Jack Juggler and the Emperor’s Whore” by John Arden’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 14 (1996).

Austin Meares. ‘The Napoleonic Stamps of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Mrs Postans. ‘The Emperor's Grave:  A sketch of St Helena,1839 (in addition to section about the tomb, also includes a description of visit including disembarkation, buildings, botanical gardens, Saul Solomon and Longwood)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Roy A. Rickard. ‘A Comedy of Errors or The Pitfalls of Genealogy (disproving family tradition that ancestor served as a soldier guarding Napoleon)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

Tom Riordan (Lone Sapper). ‘Rare “sergeants' peninsula marks (badges awarded to sergeants guarding Napoleon who served in the Peninsular war)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 8 (1993).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Review: “Napoleon Bonaparte, England’s Prisoner:  The Emperor in Exile 1816-21” by Frank Giles’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Eunice Shanahan. ‘Napoleon on HMS Bellerophon and HMS Northumberland: A Letter’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

John Tyrrell. ‘The Belle Poule and the Exhumation of Napoleon’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Other Exiles and Prisoners

St Helena as a place of banishment beyond Napoleon: the Zulu king Dinuzulu, Boer prisoners of war, the Bahraini detainees, and the island's first exile.

Atkins, William. Exiles: Three Island Journeys. London: Faber & Faber, 2022. (One journey follows Dinuzulu on St Helena.) [publisher page; in-copyright]

Clifford, Sir Hugh. 'The Earliest Exile of St Helena'. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 173 (1903): 621-33.

Hale, Frederick. 'Norwegian Prisoners in the Second Anglo-Boer War'. South African Journal of Cultural History 14, no. 2 (2000): 1-12.

Island Prisoners - Boers 1900 - 1902, George, Barbara B., Hillman, Chris and Shiela, St Helena National Trust, 2013

Joyce, Miriam. 'The Bahraini Three on St. Helena, 1956-1961'. Middle East Journal 54, no. 4 (2000): 613-23.

Murray, Paul. '"On Saint Helena's Bleak Shore": Free State Plans to Intern Republican Prisoners'. History Ireland 11, no. 1 (2003): 10-11.

Stuart, James. A History of the Zulu Rebellion, 1906, and of Dinuzulu’s Arrest, Trial, and Expatriation. London: Macmillan, 1913. (Covers Dinuzulu’s exile to St Helena.) [Project Gutenberg, full text]

Thompson, Paul. 'Dinuzulu and the Quest for Zulu Paramountcy, 1898-1906'. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 49, no. 3 (2016): 305-28.

Viljoen, Ben. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War. London: Hood, Douglas, & Howard, 1902. (Written partly at Broadbottom Camp, St Helena.) [Project Gutenberg, full text]

Wirebird articles

Basil George. ‘Boer War Prisoners on St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

George A. Lewis, M.B.E.. ‘Three prisoners from the Persian Gulf’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

H.V. Mapp. ‘Assassination plot (background to the imprisonment of three Bahrain  dissidents at St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Book Reviews: “St Helena 500: A Chronological History of the Island” by Robil Gill and percy Teale; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “St Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History”; “His Majesty’s Grant of the Island of St Helena” by Jeff Cant; “Come with me to St Helena” by B. W. Marshall; “A Tourist Guide to the Anglo-Boer War” by Trevor Westby-Nunn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘“You’ve got to grind them down” - the Boer prisoner of war camps on St Helena, 1900-1902’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Review: “Napoleon Bonaparte, England’s Prisoner:  The Emperor in Exile 1816-21” by Frank Giles’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Yvonne Stadler. ‘George Gabriel Powell: The First Speaker of South Carolina (story of a respected American politician who was exiled from St Helena for misappropriation of funds)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Liberated Africans

St Helena's role in the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade after 1840, the liberated Africans received on the island, and their diaspora and genetic legacy.

Anderson, Richard. 'The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863'. African Economic History 41 (2013): 101-38.

Anderson, Richard, Alex Borucki, Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Paul Lachance, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. 'Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808-1862'. History in Africa 40, no. 1 (2013): 165-91.

Callaway, Ewen. What DNA Reveals about St Helena's Freed Slaves. Nature 540, no. 7632 (8 December 2016): 184.

Fox, Colin. A Bitter Draught: St Helena and the Abolition of Slavery, 1792–1840. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2017.

M'Henry, George, An Account of the Liberated African Establishment St Helena, Simmond's Colonial Magazine: Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7

MacQuarrie, Helen C. ‘Prize Possessions: Transported Material Culture of the Post-Abolition Enslaved – New Evidence from St Helena’. Slavery & Abolition 37, no. 1 (2016): 72–93.

Mosca, Liliana. 'Slaving in Madagascar: English and Colonial Voyages in the Second Half of the 17th Century A.D.'

Nwokeji, G. Ugo, and David Eltis. 'The Roots of the African Diaspora: Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Names in the Liberated African Registers of Sierra Leone and Havana'. History in Africa 29 (2002): 365-379.

Pearson, Andrew, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin, and Helen MacQuarrie. Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert’s Valley, St Helena. CBA Research Report 169. York: Council for British Archaeology, 2011. [Archaeology Data Service; digital volume free]

Pearson, Andrew F. ‘A Dataset to Accompany the Excavation Report for a “Liberated African” Graveyard in Rupert’s Valley, St Helena, South Atlantic’. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 1 (2012): e5.

Pearson, Andrew. Distant Freedom: St Helena and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1840–1872. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. [JSTOR; book landing page]

Pearson, Andrew. ‘Liberated African Settlers on St. Helena’. In Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896, ed. Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy, 313–31. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. [JSTOR; in-copyright]

Pessina, Mattia, Thesis: Labour, Environment and Empire in the South Atlantic (1780-1860), University of Trento, 2016

Rees, Siân. Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade. London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.

Roberts, G. W. 'Immigration of Africans into the British Caribbean'. Population Studies 7, no. 3 (1954): 235-62.

Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, et al. ‘The Ancestry and Geographical Origins of St Helena’s Liberated Africans’. American Journal of Human Genetics 110, no. 9 (2023): 1590–1612.

Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, et al. 'The Genetic Origins of Saint Helena's Liberated Africans'. BioRxiv, 1 October 2019

Saunders, Christopher. 'Liberated Africans in Cape Colony in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century'. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 18, no. 2 (1985): 223-39.

Sharp, Granville. A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery. London: Benjamin White, 1769.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Van Niekerk, J. P. 'The Role of the Vice-Admiralty Court at St Helena in the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Preliminary Investigation ()'. Fundamina 15, no. 1 (2009): 69-111. Part 1 Part 2

Wirebird articles

Colin Fox [ed]. ‘Encounters with the slavers: Excerpts from the diary of Hamilton Laird 1849’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Heidi Bauer-Clapp. ‘A Small Step: Honouring St Helena's Liberated Africans’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 45 (2016).

Dr Michael D. Bennett. ‘Slavery in Early St Helena, Part 1: The “Black Servant” System, 1659-1682’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Michael D. Bennett. ‘Slavery in early St Helena, Part Two: the Barbadian Plantation System and the expansion of slavery, 1683-1694’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Michael D. Bennett. ‘Slavery in Early St Helena, Part 3: the consolidation of slavery 1695-1730’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

St Helena Session Book, 1818. ‘Rex v Robert Wright (Transcript of a court case brought against Captain Robert Wright in 1818 for ill-treating and beating his slave Lucy)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Andreana S. Cunningham. ‘Rupert's Valley and stories of bisociality’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 53 (2024).

Colin Fox. ‘The Latter Days of Slavery:  Where did all the women go? (under-representation of female slaves in the statistics)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Colin Fox. ‘Rex v Robert Wright (Part 2 of Transcript of a court case brought against Captain Robert Wright in 1818 for ill-treating and beating his slave Lucy) - Extracted from St Helena Session Book, 1818 - Colin Fox’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

David Higgins. ‘Three thousand miles and a lifetime from home’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

S Morgan/J C Hillman. ‘Alexander Frederick Charles Contest: A St Helena freed slave in Australia’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 46 (2017).

George A. Lewis, M.B.E.. ‘The liberation of slaves in St Helena, Part 1’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

George A. Lewis, M.B.E.. ‘The liberation of slaves in St Helena - Part 2’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

London Cornish Association Newsletter, 2007. ‘Philip Scipio's Grave (Gravestone in Devon of a slave brought from St Helena to England where he died aged 18-20 in 1734)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 41 (2012).

Andrew Pearson. ‘Rupert's Valley and the Liberated Africans: a retrospective’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Margaret Rodenberg. ‘St Helena's link to Cuba (through the liberated African slaves)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 47 (2018).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘A ‘Wicked’ Design: The St Helena Slave Rebellion of 1695’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Early anti-slavery sentiments on St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Aspects of the Lives of the ‘Liberated Africans’ on St Helena (religious conversion/physical recovery of slaves/recruitment as troops/employment and settlement/disturbance of Ruperts Bay graves)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Aspects of the Lives of the ‘Liberated Africans’ on St Helena (religious conversion/physical recovery of slaves/recruitment as troops/employment and settlement/disturbance of Ruperts Bay graves)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘‘To Be Sold & Let - Slaves’:  Reclaiming an Icon of St Helena’s Shameful Past (widely featured public notice shown to be 1829 slave sale at Jamestown under the trees in front of The Cannister)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

John Tyrrell. ‘The Legend of the "Slaves" of Maldivia (the source of this legend appeared in Governor Janisch's Extracts from the St Helena Records) - John Tyrrell’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 43 (2014).

Stephane Van de Velde. ‘Chasing the Slavers:  The establishment of the Vice Admiralty Court of St Helena and its early cases’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Alexandra Ward. ‘Recording liberation: insights into St Helena's 'liberated Africans' through West Indian Health Reports’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

Slavery and Abolition (Atlantic Context)

Broader Atlantic-world studies of slavery, the slave trade, and abolition that frame St Helena's role.

Allen, Richard B. 'Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System'. Slavery & Abolition 35, no. 2 (2014): 328-48.

Colley, Linda. Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850. New York: Pantheon, 2002.

Domingues da Silva, Daniel, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. 'The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century'. Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (2014): 347-69.

Fox, Colin. A Bitter Draught: St Helena and the Abolition of Slavery, 1792–1840. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2017.

Govan, Thomas P. 'Was Plantation Slavery Profitable?'. Journal of Southern History 8, no. 4 (1942): 513-35.

Rees, Siân. The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts. London: Hodder, 2001.

Rees, Siân. Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade. London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.

Saunders, Christopher. 'Between Slavery and Freedom: The Importation of Prize Negroes to the Cape in the Aftermath of Emancipation'. Kronos 9 (1984): 36-43.

Sharp, Granville. A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery. London: Benjamin White, 1769.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Wikle, Thomas A., and Dale R. Lightfoot. 'Landscapes of the Slave Trade in Senegal and The Gambia'. Focus on Geography 57, no. 1 (2014): 14-24.

Military History, Garrison, and Fortifications

The island's defences and garrison, the St Helena Regiments, the local militia, and its role as a fortified station in the South Atlantic.

Anon, Guns of St Helena, St Helena National Trust Newsletter, 2008

Atkinson, C. T. The Proposed Expedition to the River Plate in 1798: Contemporary Letters of Colonel Robert Brooke, Governor of St Helena. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 26, no. 106 (1948): 69-76.

Burroughs, Peter. 'Parliamentary Radicals and the Reduction of Imperial Expenditure in British North America, 1827-1834'. The Historical Journal 11, no. 3 (1968): 446-61.

Burroughs, Peter. 'The Human Cost of Imperial Defence in the Early Victorian Age'. Victorian Studies 24, no. 1 (1980): 7-32.

Chartrand, Rene. 'St. Helena Local Militia, C. 1837-1840'. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 89, no. 359 (2011): 261-62.

Clements, Bill. St Helena: South Atlantic Fortress. Fort 35 (2007).

Ekoko, A. E. 'The Strategic-Imperial Factor in British Expansion in Sierra-Leone, 1882-1899'. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 11, no. 1/2 (December 1981 - June 1982): 138-52.

Ekoko, A.E. The Theory and Practice of Imperial Garrisons: The British Experiment in the South Atlantic 1881 - 1914. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 12, no. 1/2 (1983): 133-48.

Farrington, A. J., "Colonel" Paul Gasherie an Adventurer on St Helena. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 46, no. 188 (1968): 235-42.

Fortescue, J. W. A History of the British Army. Vol. 5, 1803-1807. London: Macmillan, 1921.

Hendricks, Charles. 'Building the Atlantic Bases'. Army History, no. 26 (1993): 18-24.

Henry, Walter. Events of a Military Life: Being Recollections After Service in the Peninsular War, Invasion of France, the East Indies, St. Helena, Canada, and Elsewhere (2 vols.). London: William Pickering, 1843.

J. H. L., St Helena Troops, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 2, No. 9 (JULY, 1923), p. 106.

Kitching, G. C. 'The St Helena Regiments of the East India Company'. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 25, no. 101 (1947) 2-8.

Mokyr, Joel, and Cormac O Grada. 'The Height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770s: Some Evidence from the East India Company Army Records'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an Da Chultur 4 (1989): 83-92.

Schuyler, Robert Livingston. 'The Recall of the Legions: A Phase of the Decentralization of the British Empire'. The American Historical Review 26, no. 1 (1920): 18-36.

Stern, Philip J. ''A Politie of Civill & Military Power': Political Thought and the Late Seventeenth-Century Foundations of the East India Company-State'. Journal of British Studies 47, no. 2 (April 2008): 253-83.

Tulloch, A. M. 'On the Mortality among Her Majesty's Troops Serving in the Colonies during the Years 1844 and 1845'. Journal of the Statistical Society of London 10, no. 3 (September 1847): 252-59.

Tylden, G. 'The Ceylon Regiments, 1796 to 1874'. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 30 (1952): 124-28.

Wirebird articles

William Akam. ‘Memories of the St Helena coastal battery R.A., 1941-1943’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Derek A. Bell. ‘Louisa's soldier (biography of Louisa Howes following her marriage to Thomas Abrahart, a soldier)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Derek A. Bell. ‘What are they doing here? (Regimental  and ecclesiastical records for St Helena found at the Royal Army Museum, Chelsea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Derek A. Bell. ‘St Helena's soldiers (collation of a databank of military history and personnel of the island’s troops)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Derek A. Bell. ‘Correspondence (description of St Helena Regiment’s uniform)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

Ian Bruce. ‘The Soldier and the Harbour Master (The Story of father & son, both named George Randal Bruce, soldier & Harbour Master) - Ian Bruce’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

William Clark. ‘William Clark? 20th Regiment Recollections’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Bill Clements. ‘Second World War Defences on St Helena (includes description of the armaments removed from the island and those still remaining)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

Captain H. F. Driver. ‘Photograph, Garrison Band Concert’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Margaret Dyson. ‘St Helena sergeant James Renton’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015).

Colin Fox. ‘Two Governors: Robert Brooke and Robert Patton (two governors who separately aided British military operations with very different outcomes)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

Basil George. ‘Boer War Prisoners on St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

David Marr. ‘Let the ‘Old Saints’ go marching on!   In search of the St Helena Regiment (1842-63)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

David Marr. ‘Happy warrior: William Forbes Macbean of the St Helena Regiment (1842-63)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

David Marr. ‘On parade: the making of a soldier for the Museum (construction of life-sized model soldier dressed in St Helena Regiment uniform, 1842-63)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Roy A. Rickard. ‘A Comedy of Errors or The Pitfalls of Genealogy (disproving family tradition that ancestor served as a soldier guarding Napoleon)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

T.M.J. Riordan. ‘British army engineers on St Helena 1816-1821’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘“You’ve got to grind them down” - the Boer prisoner of war camps on St Helena, 1900-1902’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Communications, Coaling, and the Suez Canal

The island's place in nineteenth-century networks of steam, coal, and cable: imperial coaling stations, submarine telegraphs, and the impact of the Suez Canal.

Bright, Charles. Submarine Telegraphs: Their History, Construction, and Working. London: C. Lockwood and Son, 1898.

Dahl, Erik J. 'Naval Innovation: From Coal to Oil'. Joint Force Quarterly 27 (Winter 2000-2001): 50-56.

Kaukiainen, Yrjö. 'Shrinking the World: Improvements in the Speed of Information Transmission, c. 1820-1870'. European Review of Economic History 5, no. 1 (2001): 1-28.

Schurman, D. M. 'Chinese Gordon and the Suez Canal'. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 42, no. 170 (1964): 96-101.

Society, Identity, Migration, and Island Studies

St Helenian community and identity, language, education, emigration, and the island's place within island-studies scholarship.

Alfredson, Gillian. ‘St Helena Island – A Changing Pattern of Exploitation?’. Australian Archaeology 17 (1983): 79–86.

Anderson, Richard. 'The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863'. African Economic History 41 (2013): 101-38.

Charlton, Tony, Charlie Panting, Philip Hannan, and Ronald Davie. 'Children's Playground Behaviour Across Five Years of Broadcast Television: A Naturalistic Study in a Remote Community'. British Journal of Social Psychology 39, no. 3 (September 2000): 351-60.

Cohen, Robin. 'Education for Dependence: Aspirations, Expectations and Identity on the Island of St Helena'. Manchester Papers on Development, no. 8 (November 1983).

Cunningham, Andreana S. ‘Reframing Diaspora: Southeastern African Contributions to Biosocial Variation in Atlantic Afro-Descendant Groups’. PhD thesis, University of Florida, 2023.

Devereux, Tiffany Prysock,Thesis: St Helena, On The Cusp Of Globalization, University of North Carolina, 2012

Domingues da Silva, Daniel, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. 'The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century'. Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (2014): 347-69.

Fox, Colin. The Bennett Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and the Cape. Gloucester: The Choir Press, 2006.

Galley, Chris, Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies, and Alice Reid. 'Living Same-Name Siblings and British Historical Demography'. Local Population Studies 86 (Spring 2011): 15-36.

Higman, B. W. 'The Chinese in Trinidad, 1806-1838'. Caribbean Studies 12, no. 3 (1972): 21-44.

Hogenstijn, Maarten, and Daniel Van Middelkoop. 'Saint Helena: Citizenship and Spatial Identities on a Remote Island'. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie 96, no. 1 (2005): 96-104.

Louis-Victor, Kuhn. Saint Helena: A Retrospective on the Effects of High Modernist Strategies on a Remote Island's Social, Political and Economic Environment., 2013

MacKinlay, Brittney, Kate Heneghan, Alexandra J. Potts, Duncan Radley, George Sanders, and Ian F. Walker. 'Process Evaluation of Implementation of the Early Stages of a Whole Systems Approach to Obesity in a Small Island'. BMC Public Health 24, no. 1 (22 May 2024): 1376.

Murdoch, Lynas, Four Years on St Helena, AuthorHouse, 2010

Parker, Charlotte (2012) 'An island between': multiple migrations and the repertoires of a St Helenian identity. PhD thesis, University of Warwick

Parker, Charlotte. ''St Helena, an Island Between': Multiple Migrations, Small Island Resilience, and Survival'. Island Studies Journal 15, no. 2 (2020): 219-36.

Rose, Juliet Emma. Thesis: The Role of Strategic Partnerships, Policy and Funding Mechanisms in Strategic Management Planning for the Crown Wastes on St Helena Island, South Atlantic. University of Reading, 2005.

Royle, Stephen. 'St. Helena: A Geographical Summary'. Geography 76, no. 3 (1991): 266-68.

Royle, Stephen A. ''Small Places Like St Helena Have Big Questions to Ask': The Inaugural Lecture of a Professor of Island Geography'. Island Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (2010): 5-24.

Royle, Stephen A. 'Island History, Not the Story of Islands: The Case of St Helena'. Shima 13, no. 1 (2019).

Royle, Stephen A. 'Islands, Voyaging, and Empires in the Age of Sail'. In Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail, edited by Douglas Hamilton and John McAleer, 25-52. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Samuels, Damian, Thesis: Cape-Helena: An Exploration of Nostalgia and Identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena Migration Nexus, 2018

Schulenburg, Alexander, Thesis, Transient observations: the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse, University of St Andrews, 1999

Swartz, Rebecca, and Johan Wassermann. '"Britishness", Colonial Governance and Education: St Helenian Children in Colonial Natal in the 1870s'. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44, no. 6 (2016): 881-899.

Trudgill, Peter., Schreier, Daniel., Long, Daniel., Williams, Jeffrey P., 'On the Reversibility of Mergers: Evidence from Lesser-Known Englishes'. Folia Linguistica Historica 37 (2009): 23-46 link

Wilson, Kathleen. 'Rethinking the Colonial State: Family, Gender, and Governmentality in Eighteenth-Century British Frontiers'. American Historical Review 116, no. 5 (December 2011): 1294-322.

Wright, Laura. 'On the East India Company Vocabulary of the Island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1676-1720', 2015.

Wirebird articles

Anna and John Siraut. ‘Citizenship by 2002 is the aim of island-loving MP (Bob Russell’s speech at the October Friends meeting)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Anna and John Siraut. ‘How to keep in touch - and to help the Island and its people (The St Helena Association; The Link Committee; The St Helena Diocesan Association; The South Atlantic Working Group; The Island Commission on Citizenship’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Tony Cross. ‘From The Editor's Post Bag:  Ian Mathieson on the Ascension Castaway story in Issue 1; St Helena Citizenship Commission Report’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Tony Cross. ‘Results of St Helena general election 1997’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Hansard. ‘A debate in the House of Lords, 1 February 1994 (opportunities for work, citizenship, right of abode and access)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 9 (1994).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The Huguenots of St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 8 (1993).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘General election (St Helena) commentary 1997’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Getting “romantic St Helena” out of the doldrums (commentary on the House of Commons debate on the 22nd January 1997)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Trevor Hearl. ‘Tale of a testimonial (details of the 1859 Kempthorne Testimonial with 195 Saints’ signatures)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

David Jones, medal Section, Maritime & Coastguard Section. ‘RMS crew miss Falklands medal by two days (ministerial response to Pamela Ward’s appeal for recognition of Saints role in the Falklands conflict)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Roger Jones. ‘British Parliamentarians visit St Helena’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

David Marr. ‘Let the ‘Old Saints’ go marching on!   In search of the St Helena Regiment (1842-63)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 19 (1999).

Dr Neil McCulloch. ‘Spotlight on the wirebird (investigation by Reading University into decline of wirebird population)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

From Bells’ Weekly Messenger, 1831. ‘The St Helena match girl:  a 19th century mystery (identity of St Helena-born sent to England for her education but sent onto the streets as a match girl by her guardians)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Ecological Restoration on St Helena: Diana's Peak National Park and the Millennium Forest (progress achieved over last 15 years in protecting endemic plant and insect population’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

John Newman. ‘News from ‘The House’ (update by Speaker of The House)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘Saints on Ascension Island in the inter-war period’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Reviews:  “St Helena - The Chinese Connection: The History of the Chinese Indentured Labourers On St. Helena 1810-1836 and beyond” by Barbara George; “St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha - The Bradt Travel Guide” by Sue Steiner’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Community, Dependency, Migration: Historical Observations on Contemporary St Helena Problems (analysis of dependency by Crown Commissioners in 1834/5 before coming under Crown control /post Crown control emigration patterns/ suggestions for mass emigration from island in 1715 and 1936’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Confusion at Westminster or ‘Broad Bottom Airport’ and the ‘Firebird’ (Parliamentary confusion about the identity of St Helena’s endemic bird and the location of the proposed airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Mure Smith. ‘This year, next year, sometime? (Commentary on the delay in restoring British citizenship to Saints)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Canon Nicholas Turner. ‘Citizenship Commission update (issuing of full UK passports to Saints in 2002)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Pamela Ward. ‘It’s never too late (letter to the Prime Minister calling for the efforts of Saints working at Ascension and on the RMS to be properly recognised)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Dan Yon. ‘The One Hundred Men: on questions of race, identity and belonging’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

Economy, Currency, and Development

St Helena's economy and development as a remote dependency: its currency board, economic prospects, and tourism and globalisation.

Allen, Richard B. 'Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System'. Slavery & Abolition 35, no. 2 (2014): 328-48.

Anderson, Richard. 'The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863'. African Economic History 41 (2013): 101-38.

Bennett, Michael D. 'Caribbean Plantation Economies as Colonial Models: The Case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the Late Seventeenth Century'. Atlantic Studies 20, no. 4 (2023): 508-39.

Brandreth, Henry Rowland, and Edward Walpole. A Precarious Livelihood: St Helena 1834: East India Company Outpost to Crown Colony. Edited by Colin Fox and Edward Baldwin. Elveden: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2016.

Devereux, Tiffany Prysock,Thesis: St Helena, On The Cusp Of Globalization, University of North Carolina, 2012

Govan, Thomas P. 'Was Plantation Slavery Profitable?'. Journal of Southern History 8, no. 4 (1942): 513-35.

Greig, Donald W. 'Sovereignty, Territory and the International Lawyer's Dilemma'. Osgoode Hall Law Journal 26, no. 1 (1988): 127-75.

Hanke, Steve, and Matt Sekerke. 'St Helena's Forgotten Currency Board'. Central Banking XIII, no. 3 (February 2003): 77-81.

Irwin, Douglas A. 'Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade'. Journal of Political Economy 99, no. 6 (December 1991): 1296-314.

Kaukiainen, Yrjö. 'Shrinking the World: Improvements in the Speed of Information Transmission, c. 1820-1870'. European Review of Economic History 5, no. 1 (2001): 1-28.

Lewis, Archibald R. 'Maritime Skills in the Indian Ocean 1368-1500'. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 16, no. 2/3 (1973): 238-64.

Louis-Victor, Kuhn. Saint Helena: A Retrospective on the Effects of High Modernist Strategies on a Remote Island's Social, Political and Economic Environment., 2013

Magedera, Ian H. 'Arrested Development: The Shape of "French India" after the Treaties of Paris of 1763 and 1814'. Interventions 12, no. 3 (2010): 331-43.

O'Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 'Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets?'. Economic History Review 62, no. 3 (2009): 655-84.

Painting, Suzanne J., Eleanor K. Haigh, Jennifer A. Graham, Simon A. Morley, Leeann Henry, Elizabeth Clingham, Rhys Hobbs, Frances Mynott, Philippe Bersuder, David I. Walker, and Tammy Stamford. 'St Helena Marine Water Quality: Background Conditions and Development of Assessment Levels for Coastal Pollutants'. Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): 655321.

Powell, Dulcie A. 'The Voyage of the Plant Nursery, H.M.S. Providence, 1791-1793'. Economic Botany 31, no. 4 (1977): 387-431.

Prakash, Om. 'The Transformation from a Pre-Colonial to a Colonial Order: The Case of India'. In Global Economic History Network Conference Paper. London School of Economics, 2004.

Rose, Juliet Emma. Thesis: The Role of Strategic Partnerships, Policy and Funding Mechanisms in Strategic Management Planning for the Crown Wastes on St Helena Island, South Atlantic. University of Reading, 2005.

Royle, Stephen A. 'Attitudes and Aspirations on St Helena in the Face of Continued Economic Dependency'. The Geographical Journal 158, no. 1 (1992): 31-39.

Royle, Stephen A. 'Economic and Political Prospects for the British Atlantic Dependent Territories'. The Geographical Journal 161, no. 3 (1995): 307-21.

Solar, Peter M. 'Opening to the East: Shipping Between Europe and Asia, 1770-1830'. The Journal of Economic History 73, no. 3 (2013): 625-61.

Zabel, S. 'The Legislative History of the Gold Coast and Nigerian Marriage Ordinances: I'. Journal of African Law 14, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 13-39.

Wirebird articles

Anna and John Siraut. ‘End in sight to airport saga?’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Myrtle Ashmole. ‘Endemic Invertebrates, the Airport and the St Helena Environment Charter (description of past studies of endemic invertebrates, their disappearance and impact of new airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Julian Cairns-Wicks. ‘The Cairns-Wicks Column (air flights to St Helena a viable alternative to travel by sea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Tony Cross. ‘Fairport (description of a four-masted barque and its connection to St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

St Helena Government/ DfID. ‘Air Access Updates (rejection of four outline proposals to develop air access to St Helena and background briefing by Sharon Wainright, Air Access Project Coordinator’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

Office of the Governor, press release. ‘Air access for St Helena (public consultation whether St Helena should go ahead with Air Access Project planned to be held in 2002)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Helena, an island of shopkeepers? (An analysis of the proliferation of retailers, wholesalers and traders on an island with a constrained economy)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 10 (1994).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The facts behind the flax (use of St Helena’s flax in research to make novel textiles’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Trevor Hearl. ‘Reading the economic runes - an airport, St Helena’s last opportunity (commentary on the St Helena Government’s “Strategic Review”)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘‘The Proper Study of Mankind’ - St Helena’s first human development report’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Helena - An Economic Snapshot (past attempts by UK administrators to achieve viable economy for the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 34 (2007).

David Higgins. ‘Three thousand miles and a lifetime from home’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Meeting St Helena’s water demands’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Ian Mathieson. ‘St Helena Parallels with El Hierro in the Canary Islands (economic differences between the two islands)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘News in Brief - Appointment of new governor (of Michael Clancy)/St Helena Link (Management of Education Support Programme taken on by Centre for International Development and Training, Wolverhampton’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Confusion at Westminster or ‘Broad Bottom Airport’ and the ‘Firebird’ (Parliamentary confusion about the identity of St Helena’s endemic bird and the location of the proposed airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Adam Sizeland. ‘The Jamestown Wharf: a short history and ruminations on its essence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

Terry Spens. ‘The new museum, development of St Helena through the ages (update on fundraising project)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Anon. ‘The St Helena National Trust (Projects: described - saving endemic species; St Helena museum; restoration of a flax mill; a school project’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Religion, Missions, and the Church

The religious history of St Helena, the Baptist revival, missionary activity, and church affairs.

Appollis, Edward Adrian, Thesis: Intercultural communication of Gospel, response to change in St Helenian culture, University of South Africa, 2004

Boehrer, George C. A. 'The Franciscans and Portuguese Colonization in Africa and the Atlantic Islands, 1415-1499'. The Americas 11, no. 3 (1955): 389-403.

Hatfield, Edwin F., St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope or, Incidents in the missionary life of the Rev. James M'Gregor Bertram of St. Helena, New York, E. H. Fletcher, 1853

Hearl, Trevor W., Baptist Pioneers of St Helena, a Sesquicentennial Survey. The Baptist Quarterly, Journal of the Baptist Historical Society XXXVI, no. 5 (January 1996): 252-60.

Robson, Thomas, St. Helena memoirs; an account of a remarkable revival of religion that took place at St. Helena, during the last years of the exile of Napoleon Buonaparte, James Nisbet, London, 1827

Wirebird articles

Ian Bruce. ‘Deceiving Bishop Welby (the story of two clergymen who tried to pull the wool over the Bishop's eyes)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 50 (2021).

Lilian Crowie. ‘St Helena's Day Address 1989 (the first broadcast from St Paul's Cathedral, St Helena, on BBC's World Service)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Dorothy Evans. ‘Obituary: The Rt. Revd. Michael Houghton, Bishop of Ebbsfleet’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

Colin Fox. ‘The Reverend George Bennett’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Owen George. ‘The funeral Of Bishop Cannan’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Richard Grainger. ‘St Helena and the Cross, Anglican church at Blue Hills and the Mutlah bell’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Geoffrey Guy, C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E.. ‘Well Dressing at Wormhill, Derbyshire (ceremony blessing well featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Trevor W. Hear. ‘In search of the St Helena Magazine - Part 1 (description of the St Helena (Diocesan) Magazine and its importance in documenting the island over the first half of the 20th century)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 25 (2002).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Helena's early Baptists’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘St Paul's Cathedral, St Helena - an architectural footnote (design and construction of the island’s largest country church)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘In search of the St Helena Magazine - Part 2 (description of the St Helena (Diocesan) Magazine and its importance in documenting the island over the first half of the 20th century’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Some ‘Anglo-Indian’ and other Memorials at St Helena (a description of headstones at St James Church Garden, Knollcombes, Jamestown Baptist church, St Matthews, St James, St Paul’s and lack of a memorial at Ruperts Bay’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

Gillian Jones. ‘The enthronement of the Rt. Rev'd John Ruston OGS as 13th Bishop of St Helena in the cathedral Church of St Paul on Sunday 14th April 1991’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

John Pinfold. ‘A St Helena Seedling: the early history of the Salvation Army on the island.’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 46 (2017).

Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 1992. ‘Obituary:  The Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan 1920-1992, Bishop of St Helena 1979-1985’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

David Young. ‘Book Review:  “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Anon. ‘Late 19th Century photo of St Helena’s Salvation Army Band’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 23 (2001).

Anon. ‘The St James' Restoration Action Group (extract from leaflet published by Action Group)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

Anon. ‘Diocese of St Helena Day (special Festival Day to be held at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Medicine, Health, and Population

Health and medicine on St Helena: epidemics and disease, genetic disorders, child health, and the medical debate over Napoleon's death.

Anon. An Epidemic Of Influenza Following Measles In St. Helena. The British Medical Journal 1, no. 1421 (1888): 656-656.

Chaplin, Arnold. The Illness and Death of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Medical Criticism. London: Hirschfeld, 1913.

Charlton, Tony, Charlie Panting, Philip Hannan, and Ronald Davie. 'Children's Playground Behaviour Across Five Years of Broadcast Television: A Naturalistic Study in a Remote Community'. British Journal of Social Psychology 39, no. 3 (September 2000): 351-60.

Cross, A B. The 1945 St Helena Poliomyelitis Epidemic after 40 Years. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 82, no. 6 (June 1989): 339-42.

De Villiers, J. C. 'The Dutch East India Company, Scurvy and the Victualling Station at the Cape'. South African Medical Journal 96, no. 2 (2006): 105-110.

Di Costanzo, Jacques. 'Gastrointestinal Diseases of Napoleon in Saint Helena: Causes of Death'. Science Progress 85, no. 4 (2002): 359-67.

Eickhoff, S., and P. Beighton. 'Genetic Disorders on the Island of St Helena'. South African Medical Journal 68, no. 7 (1985): 475-478.

Galley, Chris, Eilidh Garrett, Ros Davies, and Alice Reid. 'Living Same-Name Siblings and British Historical Demography'. Local Population Studies 86 (Spring 2011): 15-36.

Lugli, Alessandro, Fatima Carneiro, Heather Dawson, Jean-François Fléjou, Richard Kirsch, Rachel S. van der Post, Michael Vieth, and Magali Svrcek. 'The Gastric Disease of Napoleon Bonaparte: Brief Report for the Bicentenary of Napoleon's Death on St. Helena in 1821'. Virchows Archiv 479, no. 5 (2021): 1055-60.

MacKinlay, Brittney, Kate Heneghan, Alexandra J. Potts, Duncan Radley, George Sanders, and Ian F. Walker. 'Process Evaluation of Implementation of the Early Stages of a Whole Systems Approach to Obesity in a Small Island'. BMC Public Health 24, no. 1 (22 May 2024): 1376.

Moyes, C. D. 'Stature and Birth Rank: A Study of Schoolchildren in St Helena'. British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine 26, no. 4 (November 1972): 224-30.

Moyes, C D. Adverse Factors Affecting Growth of Schoolchildren in St. Helena. Archives of Disease in Childhood 51, no. 6 (June 1976): 435-38.

Munt, D. F., Suzette Gauvain, Joan Walford, and R. S. F. Schilling. 'Study of Respiratory Symptoms and Ventilatory Capacities Among Rope Workers'. British Journal of Industrial Medicine 22, no. 3 (1965): 196-203.

Murphy, T. L. and Nixon, E. (2024): Mental health and resilience in young people on Saint Helena Island

Murray, J. F. 'Napoleon-of What Did He Die?' South African Medical Journal 45, no. 36 (1971): 1005-1009.

Phippard, Samantha, Kerry Ball, and Nicole Paulson. 'Creating Space for Dialogue: Exploring What Matters for Children on St Helena Island through The World Café'. Qualitative Social Work 23, no. 2 (2024): 252-67.

Schulenburg, A. H. 'The Book vs. the Box: The Impact of Broadcast Television on Library Borrowing Levels on St Helena, South Atlantic'. Rural Libraries 20, no. 1 (2000): 38-51.

Tulloch, A. M. 'On the Mortality among Her Majesty's Troops Serving in the Colonies during the Years 1844 and 1845'. Journal of the Statistical Society of London 10, no. 3 (September 1847): 252-59.

Wilson, J. B. 'Dr. Archibald Arnott: Surgeon to the 20th Foot and Physician to Napoleon'. British Medical Journal 3, no. 5978 (1975): 293-95.

Wirebird articles

Tony Cross. ‘Good news from Bridgewater College (Honorary Doctorate awarded to Dorothy Evans)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Richard Grainger. ‘Doctor Verling (A Surgeon during Napoleon's imprisonment on St Helena) - Richard Grainger’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 42 (2013).

Richard Grainger. ‘Mixed Medical Memories of St Helena 1966-69’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Maryanne O'Donnell. ‘A Doctor for the people: Dr Ian Shine’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 46 (2017).

Bristol Evening Post/ Truro & District Packet. ‘Items from local newspapers of interest to Friends - “Islanders meet Lifesavers” at Frenchay Hospital Bristol / “Joint charity effort sends minibus to remote St Helena"’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 17 (1998).

Alexandra Ward. ‘Recording liberation: insights into St Helena's 'liberated Africans' through West Indian Health Reports’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 54 (2025).

Natural History: Flora, Endemic Plants, and Conservation

The island's endemic and native plants, the destruction of the Great Wood, ecological change, and modern conservation of the flora.

Almeida, Domingos PF. 'Asian Crops in Renaissance Europe as a Result of the Discoveries: Bypassing the Silk Road'. In XXVIII International Horticultural Congress, 83-92, 2010.

Alves, R. J. V., N. G. Silva, and A. Aguirre-Muñoz. 'Return of Endemic Plant Populations on Trindade Island, Brazil, with Comments on the Fauna'. In Island Invasives: Eradication and Management, edited by C. R. Veitch, M. N. Clout, and D. R. Towns, 259-63. Gland: IUCN, 2011.

Barlow, A. R. 'Forestry Development on the Island of St Helena'. The Commonwealth Forestry Review 68, no. 1 (214) (1989): 57-68.

Beatson, Alexander, Tracts Relative to the Island of St. Helena: Written During a Residence of Five Years, London, W. Bulmer and Company, 1816

Bennett, Michael D. 'Caribbean Plantation Economies as Colonial Models: The Case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the Late Seventeenth Century'. Atlantic Studies 20, no. 4 (2023): 508-39.

Bligh, William, W. W. Doveton, Alexander Anderson, James Seton, and Henry Shirley. 'Paper in Colonies and Trade'. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 12 (1794): 303-17.

Boehm, Mannfred M. A., and Q. C. B. Cronk. ‘Dark Extinction: The Problem of Unknown Historical Extinctions’. Biology Letters 17, no. 3 (2021): 20210007. (Uses St Helena flora as a case study.) [Royal Society; check access]

Brooke, Thomas H., Papers Relating to the Devastation Committed by Goats on the Island of St. Helena, from the Period of Their Introduction to the Present Time: Comprising Experiments, Observations & Hints Connected with Agricultural Improvement and Planting, &c, 1810.

Cronk, Q. C. B. 'The History of Endemic Flora of St Helena: A Relictual Series'. New Phytologist 105, no. 3 (1987): 509-20.

Cronk, Q. C. B. 'W. J. Burchell and the Botany of St Helena'. Archives of Natural History 15, no. 1 (1988): 45-60.

Cronk, Q. C. B. 'The Past and Present Vegetation of St Helena'. Journal of Biogeography 16, no. 1 (1989): 47-64.

Cronk, Quentin C. B. The Endemic Flora of St Helena. Oswestry: Anthony Nelson, 2000. [publisher Anthony Nelson has no live site; this is a specialist bookseller page. Note: this title is by Cronk, not Holland]

Cronk, Q. C. B., and Phil Lambdon. ‘Extinction Dynamics Under Extreme Conservation Threat: The Flora of St Helena’. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8 (2020): 41. [Frontiers; open access, full text]

Darwin, Charles. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. 2nd ed. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1876. [Darwin Online, full text]

David, Andrew. Bligh's Successful Breadfruit Voyage. RSA Journal 141, no. 5444 (1993): 821-24.

Eastwood, Antonia, Thesis: Evolution and Conservation of Commidendrum and Elaphoglossum from St Helena, The University of Edinburgh, 2002

Funk, Vicki Ann, A. Susana, T. F. Stuessy, and R. J. Bayer, eds. Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2009.

Govan, Thomas P. 'Was Plantation Slavery Profitable?'. Journal of Southern History 8, no. 4 (1942): 513-35.

Grove, Richard H. ‘Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and Their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660 to 1854’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 2 (1993): 318–51. [Cambridge Core; in-copyright]

Grove, Richard. 'Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and Their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660 to 1854'. Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 2 (1993): 318-51.

Grove, Richard H. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Cambridge Core; snippet/paywall only]

Lambdon, Phil. Flowering Plants and Ferns of St Helena. Newbury: Pisces Publications, 2013. [publisher (Nature Bureau/Pisces); in-copyright]

Lambdon, Phil, Andrew Darlow, Colin Clubbe, and Tom Cope. 'Eragrostis episcopulus - a Newly Described Grass Species Endemic to the Island of St Helena, Its Ecology and Conservation'. Kew Bulletin 68, no. 1 (2013): 121-31.

Lens, Frederic, N. Davin, Erik F. Smets, and M. del Arco. 'Insular Woodiness on the Canary Islands: A Remarkable Case of Convergent Evolution'. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174, no. 7 (September 2013): 992-1013.

Ly-Tio-Fanem Madeleine, 'Botanic Gardens: Connecting Links in Plant Transfer between the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean Regions'. Harvard Papers in Botany 1, no. 8 (1996): 7-14.

Mabberley, D. J. 'The Pachycaul Senecio Species of St. Helena, Cacalia paterna and Cacalia materna'. Kew Bulletin 30, no. 2 (1975): 413-20.

Malan, Lourens J., Herian, Katrine, Growing Guide, for St Helena's Endemic Flowering Plants, St Helena National Trust, 2010

McAleer, John. ''A Young Slip of Botany': Botanical Networks, the South Atlantic, and Britain's Maritime Worlds, c.1790-1810'. Journal of Global History 11, no. 1 (March 2016): 24-43.

McKay, Helen M. 'William John Burchell in St. Helena'. South African Journal of Science 31, no. 07 (1934): 481-489.

Melliss, John C. St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island, Including its Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875.

Nunes, Lina, Helena Cruz, Mário Fragoso, Tânia Nobre, José S. Machado, and Amélia Soares. 'Impact of Drywood Termites in the Islands of Azores'. In IABSE Symposium on Structures and Extreme Events, Lisbon, September 2005.

Pearce-Kelly, P. E. St Helena, an Island Biosphere Reserve. Draft, Executive Summary by the St Helena Working Group. IUCN, 1992.

Pearce-Kelly, P.E. ,Drucker, G.R.F. St Helena, an island Biosphere Reserve. Draft, executive summary. St Helena Working Group, 1992

Powell, Dulcie A. 'The Voyage of the Plant Nursery, H.M.S. Providence, 1791-1793'. Economic Botany 31, no. 4 (1977): 387-431.

Robinson, T. F. Thesis: William Roxburgh (1751-1815). University of Edinburgh, 2003.

Smith, Stefan Halikowski. 'The Mid-Atlantic Islands: A Theatre of Early Modern Ecocide?' International Review of Social History 55, no. S18 (2010): 51-77.

Turner, I. M. 'Notes Relating to William Roxburgh's Study of the Flora of St Helena'. Kew Bulletin 71 (2016): 31.

Turrill, W. B. 'On the Flora of St. Helena'. Kew Bulletin 3, no. 3 (1948): 358-62.

Wallace, Alfred Russel. Island Life; or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras. London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. (St Helena is treated in chapter 14.)

Wallace, Alfred Russel. Island Life. Project Gutenberg edition, EBook #32021. [Project Gutenberg, full text]

Wehi, Priscilla M., and Bruce D. Clarkson. 'Biological Flora of New Zealand 10. Phormium tenax, Harakeke, New Zealand Flax'. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45, no. 4 (2007): 521-44.

Wirebird articles

Michael D. Bennett. ‘Slavery in early St Helena, Part Two: the Barbadian Plantation System and the expansion of slavery, 1683-1694’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Ian Bruce. ‘Black Oliver and the Dutch Invasion’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

Charles and Kim Dixon. ‘The Plantation Poltergeist (ghosts at Plantation House)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

H. F. Driver. ‘Random recollections - the fall of a giant (felling of the largest tree on St Helena during the 2nd World War)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 8 (1993).

Colin Fox. ‘Fernando de Noronha? (How this Brazilian island connects with St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 49 (2020).

Jane Hall. ‘Plantation Notes’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The Plight of the St Helena Olive’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 1 (1990).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Ian Mathieson. ‘Book Reviews: “St Helena 500: A Chronological History of the Island” by Robil Gill and percy Teale; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “St Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History”; “His Majesty’s Grant of the Island of St Helena” by Jeff Cant; “Come with me to St Helena” by B. W. Marshall; “A Tourist Guide to the Anglo-Boer War” by Trevor Westby-Nunn’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

From Bells’ Weekly Messenger, 1831. ‘The St Helena match girl:  a 19th century mystery (identity of St Helena-born sent to England for her education but sent onto the streets as a match girl by her guardians)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Ecological Restoration on St Helena: Diana's Peak National Park and the Millennium Forest (progress achieved over last 15 years in protecting endemic plant and insect population’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Mrs Postans. ‘The Emperor's Grave:  A sketch of St Helena,1839 (in addition to section about the tomb, also includes a description of visit including disembarkation, buildings, botanical gardens, Saul Solomon and Longwood)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 40 (2011).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Fernao Lopes - St Helena's first settler - An English translation of the original account’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Fernão Lopes - a South Atlantic ‘Robinson Crusoe’’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘Fernando de Noronha: A Brazilian St Helena?’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘‘To Be Sold & Let - Slaves’:  Reclaiming an Icon of St Helena’s Shameful Past (widely featured public notice shown to be 1829 slave sale at Jamestown under the trees in front of The Cannister)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Book Reviews:  “The Bennett Letters:  A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and Cape Town” by Colin Fox; “Fernão Lopes ‑ A South Atlantic Robinson Crusoe” by Beau W. Rowlands,’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

Natural History: Fauna, Birds, and Marine Life

The wirebird and other endemic birds, the extinct avifauna, invertebrates and land snails, dolphins, and the island's terrestrial and marine zoology.

Ashmole, N. P. ‘The Extinct Avifauna of St Helena Island’. Ibis 103b, no. 3 (1963): 390–408.

Ashmole, Myrtle and Philip, Protected Area Planning for the Central Peaks, Invertebrates of the Peaks, St Helena National Trust, 2006

Belmonte, Genuario. 'Species Richness in Isolated Environments: A Consideration on the Effect of Time'. Biodiversity Journal 3 (2012): 273-280.

Boxer, C. R. 'The Third Dutch War in the East (1672-4)'. Mariner's Mirror 16, no. 4 (1930): 343-86.

Bright, Charles. Submarine Telegraphs: Their History, Construction, and Working. London: C. Lockwood and Son, 1898.

Burns, Fiona, Thesis: Conservation biology of the endangered St. Helena Plover Charadrius sanctaehelenae, University of Bath, 2011

Campbell, Karl, and C. Donlan. 'Feral Goat Eradications on Islands'. Conservation Biology 19 (6 September 2005): 1362-74.

Gerlach, J., O. Griffiths, J. P. Hume, A. Louchart, P. Sorrel, and R. Cairns-Wicks. ‘Diversity of the Extinct Land Snail Genus Chilonopsis of St Helena (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Achatinidae)’. European Journal of Taxonomy 1007 (2025): 176–210.

Lewis, Colin A. 'The Late Glacial and Holocene Avifauna of the Island of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean'. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 63, no. 2 (2008): 128-44.

Lewis, Colin A. ‘The Late Glacial and Holocene Avifauna of the Island of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean’. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 63, no. 2 (2008): 128–144.

Lydekker, Richard. 'On the Supposed Former Existence of a Sirenian in St Helena'. In Proc Zool Soc Lond, 796-798, 1899.

Maddison, David R., John S. Sproul, and Howard Mendel. 'Origin and Adaptive Radiation of the Exceptional and Threatened Bembidiine Beetle Fauna of St Helena (Coleoptera: Carabidae)'. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189, no. 4 (2020): 1155-75.

McCulloch, M. NEIL. Status, Habitat and Conservation of the St Helena Wirebird Charadrius Sanctaehelenae. Bird Conservation International 1, no. 4 (1991): 361-392.

Norris, Ken. 'Ecology and Conservation of the Endemic St Helena Wirebird'. Darwin Project, 2001.

Nunes, Lina, Helena Cruz, Mário Fragoso, Tânia Nobre, José S. Machado, and Amélia Soares. 'Impact of Drywood Termites in the Islands of Azores'. In IABSE Symposium on Structures and Extreme Events, Lisbon, September 2005.

Nunes, Lina. 'Termite Infestation Risk in Portuguese Historic Buildings'. Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage-Braga 2008, 2010, 117-22.

Olson, Storrs R., Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, 1975

Oppel, S., et al. 'Recent Observations Suggest Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria Bulwerii Might Breed on St Helena'. Marine Ornithology 40 (15 April 2012): 67-68.

Painting, Suzanne J., Eleanor K. Haigh, Jennifer A. Graham, Simon A. Morley, Leeann Henry, Elizabeth Clingham, Rhys Hobbs, Frances Mynott, Philippe Bersuder, David I. Walker, and Tammy Stamford. 'St Helena Marine Water Quality: Background Conditions and Development of Assessment Levels for Coastal Pollutants'. Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): 655321.

Pearce-Kelly, P. E. St Helena, an Island Biosphere Reserve. Draft, Executive Summary by the St Helena Working Group. IUCN, 1992.

Pearce-Kelly, P.E. ,Drucker, G.R.F. St Helena, an island Biosphere Reserve. Draft, executive summary. St Helena Working Group, 1992

Perrin, William F. 'The Former Dolphin Fishery at St Helena'. Report of the International Whaling Commission 35 (1985): 423-428.

Prater, Tony, Important Bird Areas, St Helena

Randles, W. G. L. 'Portuguese and Spanish Attempts to Measure Longitude in the Sixteenth Century'. The Mariner's Mirror 81, no. 4 (1995): 402-08.

Remedios, Natalie dos, Thesis: The Evolutionary History Of Plovers, Genus Charadrius, University of Bath, 2013

Santos, T. A., N. Fonseca, and F. Castro. 'Naval Architecture Applied to the Reconstruction of an Early 17th Century Portuguese Nau'. Marine Technology and SNAME News 44, no. 4 (2007): 254-67.

Smith, Edgar A. 'On the Land-Shells of St. Helena'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892 (1892): 258-70.

Turvey, Samuel T., and Anthony S. Cheke. 'Dead as a Dodo: The Fortuitous Rise to Fame of an Extinction Icon'. Historical Biology 20, no. 2 (June 2008): 149-63.

Welch, Andreanna J., Storrs L. Olson, and Robert C. Fleischer. ‘Phylogenetic Relationships of the Extinct St Helena Petrel, Pterodroma rupinarum Olson, 1975 (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae), Based on Ancient DNA’. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170, no. 3 (2014): 494–505.

Wollaston, T Vernon. 'On the Coleoptera of St Helena'. Annals And Magazine of Natural History 4 (1869): 297-321.

Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, Testacea Atlantica, London, L. Reeve & Co., 1878

Wirebird articles

Myrtle Ashmole. ‘Endemic Invertebrates, the Airport and the St Helena Environment Charter (description of past studies of endemic invertebrates, their disappearance and impact of new airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 30 (2005).

Julian Cairns-Wicks. ‘The Cairns-Wicks Column (air flights to St Helena a viable alternative to travel by sea)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

John Cooper. ‘Campaign to save the albatross (launch of the Save The Albatross Campaign)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Tony Cross. ‘Wahoo! (St Helena’s fish)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Tony Cross. ‘The story of the S.S. Papanui - Continued (extracts from “The Wirebird”, 1957)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 6 (1992).

Colin Fox. ‘Musophaga Rossae (description of new bird species named after Lady Eliza Ross of St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 48 (2019).

Charles Frater. ‘End of an era for Wirebird (departure of Tony Cross and appointment of Angela Wigglesworth as editor)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Sir James Harford. ‘Jonathan of Saint Helena (a description of St Helena’s ancient tortoise)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Earwig stamps (the giant earwig and other endemic insects to be featured on a new issue of stamps)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book review: Neil McCulloch, “A Guide to the Birds of St Helena and Ascension Island”’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

David Holt. ‘St Helena: Where have all the beaches gone? (why the island's marine sand/shells is located over 1,500 feet above sea level)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

Arthur Loveridge. ‘Wirebirds, donkeys and you - a talk broadcast on Radio St Helena 8th March 1972 ( description of the wirebird)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Frances Marks. ‘Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in the UK's Overseas Territories’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

Frances Marks. ‘Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in the UK's Overseas Territories’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

Dr Neil McCulloch. ‘The Wirebird: Past, present and future (article about the last surviving endemic bird)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 2 (1990).

Dr Neil McCulloch. ‘Spotlight on the wirebird (investigation by Reading University into decline of wirebird population)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Ecological Restoration on St Helena: Diana's Peak National Park and the Millennium Forest (progress achieved over last 15 years in protecting endemic plant and insect population’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Myrtle & Philip Ashmole. ‘Discovery of the Endemic Invertebrates of St Helena and ‘The Belgians’ (description of past surveys and alleged extinction of species through over-collection of samples)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 32 (2006).

Dulcie Robertson. ‘The Wirebird (a poem)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 3 (1991).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Birds of St Helena - an update’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘Errata to Wirebird No 28, “Ships at St Helena, 1502-1613”’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 29 (2004).

Beau W. Rowlands. ‘The BOU checklist The Birds of St Helena - an update on birds, and relevant ships’ movements, 1942 and 1944 (new St Helena birds listed by British Ornithologist’s Union; tracing WWII ship movements from records held by Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 33 (2006).

Stephen A. Royle. ‘I was a Foreign Office Consultant: Big fish on a small island or catching wahoo off Ascension (description of one-month visit)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 26 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘News in Brief - Appointment of new governor (of Michael Clancy)/St Helena Link (Management of Education Support Programme taken on by Centre for International Development and Training, Wolverhampton’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 27 (2003).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Community, Dependency, Migration: Historical Observations on Contemporary St Helena Problems (analysis of dependency by Crown Commissioners in 1834/5 before coming under Crown control /post Crown control emigration patterns/ suggestions for mass emigration from island in 1715 and 1936’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 28 (2004).

A.H. Schulenburg. ‘Confusion at Westminster or ‘Broad Bottom Airport’ and the ‘Firebird’ (Parliamentary confusion about the identity of St Helena’s endemic bird and the location of the proposed airport)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 31 (2005).

Daniella Sherwood and Liza Fowler. ‘Spider research on St Helena: past, present and future’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 52 (2023).

Jim Stevenson. ‘RSPB to publish island bird book’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

Vince Thompson. ‘The St Helena Wirebird: The Island’s Only Endemic Bird is Now a Critically Endangered Species’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 35 (2007).

Vince Thompson. ‘St Helena's Millennium Forest: A Symbol of the Fight to Defend Fragile Eco-Systems (reforestation of part of the Great Wood area)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 36 (2008).

Angela Wigglesworth. ‘Letter: Resignation as editor of Wirebird due to illness.  Editorship assumed by Anna and John Siraut’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 22 (2001).

James R Wylor-Owen, Beth Taylor, Kenickie Andrews. ‘A record of novel natural history observations from the first comprehensive period of visual marine surveying of St Helena's Marine Protected Area’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 51 (2022).

Anon. ‘The St Helena National Trust (Projects: described - saving endemic species; St Helena museum; restoration of a flax mill; a school project’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 24 (2002).

Comparative Island Studies and Biogeography

Studies setting St Helena alongside other oceanic islands - Trindade, the Canaries, Cape Verde, Norfolk Island and others - in island biogeography, endemism, and invasion ecology.

Alves, R. J. V., N. G. Silva, and A. Aguirre-Muñoz. 'Return of Endemic Plant Populations on Trindade Island, Brazil, with Comments on the Fauna'. In Island Invasives: Eradication and Management, edited by C. R. Veitch, M. N. Clout, and D. R. Towns, 259-63. Gland: IUCN, 2011.

Baldacchino, Godfrey. 'Islands and Despots'. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 50, no. 1 (February 2012): 103-20.

Coyne, P. 'Phormium tenax (New Zealand Flax) - Norfolk Island Native?'. Cunninghamia 11, no. 2 (2009): 169-76.

Eyde, Richard H., and Storrs L. Olson. 'The Dead Trees of Ilha da Trindade'. Atoll Research Bulletin 268 (1983).

Funk, Vicki Ann, A. Susana, T. F. Stuessy, and R. J. Bayer, eds. Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2009.

Itescu, Yuval, Johannes Foufopoulos, Panayiotis Pafilis, and Shai Meiri. 'The Diverse Nature of Island Isolation and Its Effect on Land Bridge Insular Faunas'. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, no. 1 (2020): 157-68.

Lens, Frederic, N. Davin, Erik F. Smets, and M. del Arco. 'Insular Woodiness on the Canary Islands: A Remarkable Case of Convergent Evolution'. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174, no. 7 (September 2013): 992-1013.

Lindskog, Per A., and Benoit Delaite. 'Degrading Land: An Environmental History Perspective of the Cape Verde Islands'. Environment and History 2, no. 3 (October 1996): 271-90.

Turvey, Samuel T., and Anthony S. Cheke. 'Dead as a Dodo: The Fortuitous Rise to Fame of an Extinction Icon'. Historical Biology 20, no. 2 (June 2008): 149-63.

Wehi, Priscilla M., and Bruce D. Clarkson. 'Biological Flora of New Zealand 10. Phormium tenax, Harakeke, New Zealand Flax'. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45, no. 4 (2007): 521-44.

Geology, Geophysics, and Earth Sciences

St Helena's volcanic origin and rocks, geochronology and geochemistry, and the island as a site for geophysical and earth-science research.

Baker, I., Gale, N. & Simons, J. Geochronology of the St Helena Volcanoes. Nature 215, 1451-1456 (1967).

Chaffey, D. J. Thesis: Characterisation of Ocean Island Basalt Sources: St. Helena. University of Leeds, 1988

Chancellor, Gordon R. ‘Charles Darwin’s St Helena Model Notebook’. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series 18, no. 2 (1990): 203–28. [Darwin Online; editorial introduction]

Daly, Reginald A. 'The Geology of Saint Helena Island'. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62, no. 2 (1927): 31-92.

Darwin, Charles. 'St Helena'. Chap. 4 in Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844.

Darwin, Charles. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. 2nd ed. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1876. [Darwin Online, full text]

Engbers, Yael A., Andrew J. Biggin, and Richard K. Bono. 'Elevated Paleomagnetic Dispersion at Saint Helena Suggests Long-Lived Anomalous Behavior in the South Atlantic'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 31 (20 July 2020): 18258-63.

Goodwin, A. J. H. Stone-Age Man in St. Helena. Man 35 (1935): 32-32.

Howarth, Richard J. 'Gravity Surveying in Early Geophysics. I. From Time-Keeping to Figure of the Earth; II. From Mountains to Salt Domes'. Earth Sciences History 26, no. 2 (2007): 201-61.

Kawabata, Hiroshi, Takeshi Hanyu, Qing Chang, Jun-Ichi Kimura, Alexander R. L. Nichols, and Yoshiyuki Tatsumi. ‘The Petrology and Geochemistry of St. Helena Alkali Basalts: Evaluation of the Oceanic Crust-recycling Model for HIMU OIB’. Journal of Petrology 52, no. 4 (2011): 791–838. [Oxford Academic; in-copyright]

Melliss, John C. St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island, Including its Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875.

Musson, R. M. W., and D. N. Holt. 'Napoleon's Earthquake: The Seismicity of St. Helena'. Seismological Research Letters 72, no. 6 (2001): 712-19.

Oliver, J.R., The Geology of St. Helena, St. Helena, Benjamin Grant, 1869

Oppenheimer, Clive. 'Climatic, Environmental and Human Consequences of the Largest Known Historic Eruption: Tambora Volcano (Indonesia) 1815'. Progress in Physical Geography 27, no. 2 (June 2003): 230-59.

Robertson, A., J. Overpeck, D. Rind, E. Mosley-Thompson, G. Zielinski, J. Lean, D. Koch, J. Penner, I. Tegen, and R. Healy. 'Hypothesized Climate Forcing Time Series for the Last 500 Years'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 106, no. D14 (27 July 2001): 14783-803.

Seale, R.F., The Geognosy of the Island St. Helena, London, Ackermann & Co., 1834

Wirebird articles

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Book Review: “A Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 4 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘The re-discovery of St Helena: A Literary Odyssey (Book Reviews):  “The Emperor’s Last Island” by Julia Blackburn; “Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island” by Alasdair Edwards; “Exploring St Helena: A Walker’s Guide” by Ian Mathieson & Laurence Carter; “Churches of the South Atlantic 1502-1990” by Rt. Rev. Edward Cannan; “St Helena Journal” by Anne Kotze; “Guide to the Geology of St Helena” by Barry Weaver; “St Helena 1502-1938” by Philip Gosse; “The Endemic Flora of St Helena” by Quentin Cronk; “A St Helena Cookbook” by Pamela Lawrence’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 5 (1992).

Trevor W. Hearl. ‘Darwin’s island’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 7 (1993).

David Holt. ‘The real shape of St Helena (new bathometric data reveals St Helena’s shape beneath the ocean)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 12 (1995).

David Holt. ‘When St Helena trembles (earthquake activity on the island)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 16 (1997).

David Holt. ‘St Helena: Where have all the beaches gone? (why the island's marine sand/shells is located over 1,500 feet above sea level)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 20 (2000).

Robin Palmer. ‘The Tristan relief stamp (overprinting of Tristan Da Cunha stamps to raise money for islanders evacuated because of volcanic eruption)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 21 (2000).

History of Science: Astronomy, Geomagnetism, and Observation

St Helena as a site of scientific observation: Halley and Maskelyne, the transit of Venus, the magnetic crusade, and the history of astronomy and geophysics.

Bartky, Ian R., and Steven J. Dick. 'The First Time Balls'. Journal for the History of Astronomy 12, no. 3 (1981): 155-64.

Biswas, Asit K. 'Edmond Halley, F.R.S., Hydrologist Extraordinary'. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 25, no. 1 (1970): 47-57.

Cawood, John. 'The Magnetic Crusade: Science and Politics in Early Victorian Britain'. Isis 70, no. 4 (1979): 492-518.

Chapman, Sydney. 'Edmond Halley, F.R.S. 1656-1742'. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 12, no. 2 (1957): 168-74.

Halley, Edmond. 'A New Method of Determining the Parallax of the Sun, or His Distance from the Earth'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 29, no. 348 (1716): 454-64.

Howarth, Richard J. 'Gravity Surveying in Early Geophysics. I. From Time-Keeping to Figure of the Earth; II. From Mountains to Salt Domes'. Earth Sciences History 26, no. 2 (2007): 201-61.

Malin, S. R. C., and D. R. Barraclough. 'Humboldt and the Earth's Magnetic Field'. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 32, no. 3 (1991): 279-93.

Maskelyne, Nevil. 'Observations on the Tides in the Island of St. Helena'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 52 (1761): 586-606.

Maskelyne, Nevil. 'An Account of the Observations Made on the Transit of Venus, June 6, 1761, in the Island of St. Helena'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 52 (1761): 196-201.

Mason, Charles. 'Observations Proving the Going of Mr. Ellicott's Clock, at St. Helena'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 52 (1761): 534-42.

McAleer, John. ''Stargazers at the World's End': Telescopes, Observatories and "Views" of Empire in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire'. British Journal for the History of Science 46, no. 3 (September 2013): 389-413.

Randles, W. G. L. 'Portuguese and Spanish Attempts to Measure Longitude in the Sixteenth Century'. The Mariner's Mirror 81, no. 4 (1995): 402-08.

Astronomy, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Physical Geography

Scientific observation from St Helena: astronomy and the magnetic observatory, tides and waves, rainfall, and the island's physical setting.

Anon, The Time-Ball of St. Helena, The Nautical Magazine, vol. 4 (London: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1835), 658-60.

Cartwright, David Edgar, and J. S. Driver. 'Tides and Waves in the Vicinity of Saint Helena'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A 270, no. 1210 (1971): 603-646.

De la Caille, Abbe. Extract of a Letter from the Abbe De La Caille. Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) 52 (1761): 21-25.

Farrington, A. J., S. Lubker, U. Radok, and D. Wucknitz. 'South Atlantic Winds and Weather During and Following the Little Ice Age - A Pilot Study of English East India Company (EEIC) Ship Logs'. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 67 (1998): 253-57.

Frewer, Tim. 'From Vulnerability to Immunization: A Genealogy of Early Attempts to Deal with the Climate'. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 37, no. 1 (2016): 43-58.

Haughton, John, Rainfall and Evaporation in St. Helena, M.H. Gill, 1862

Lewis, Colin A., Paula J. Reimer, and Ron W. Reimer. 'Marine Reservoir Corrections: St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean'. Radiocarbon 50, no. 2 (2008): 275-80.

Maskelyne, Nevil. 'Observations on the Tides in the Island of St. Helena'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 52 (1761): 586-606.

Melliss, John C. St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island, Including its Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1875.

Musson, R. M. W., and D. N. Holt. 'Napoleon's Earthquake: The Seismicity of St. Helena'. Seismological Research Letters 72, no. 6 (2001): 712-19.

Oppenheimer, Clive. 'Climatic, Environmental and Human Consequences of the Largest Known Historic Eruption: Tambora Volcano (Indonesia) 1815'. Progress in Physical Geography 27, no. 2 (June 2003): 230-59.

Palmer, Edmund. 'Notes to Accompany the Map of St. Helena'. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 30 (1860): 260-266.

Raible, C. C., S. Brönnimann, R. Auchmann, P. Brohan, T. L. Frölicher, H.-F. Graf, P. Jones, et al. 'Tambora 1815 as a Test Case for High Impact Volcanic Eruptions: Earth System Effects'. WIREs Climate Change 7, no. 4 (July-August 2016): 569-89.

Robertson, A., J. Overpeck, D. Rind, E. Mosley-Thompson, G. Zielinski, J. Lean, D. Koch, J. Penner, I. Tegen, and R. Healy. 'Hypothesized Climate Forcing Time Series for the Last 500 Years'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 106, no. D14 (27 July 2001): 14783-803.

Sabine, Sir Edward, Observations Made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at St. Helena, H.M. Stationery Office, 1847 Volume 1 Volume 2

Tatham, W. G., and K. A. Harwood. 'Astronomers and Other Scientists on St. Helena'. Annals of Science 31, no. 6 (1 November 1974): 489-510.

van der Schrier, G., and P. D. Jones. 'The Gulf Stream and Atlantic Sea-Surface Temperatures in AD 1790-1825'. International Journal of Climatology 30, no. 12 (2010): 1747-63.

Wilson, Nicholas, and Nikolai Maximciuc. 'Impact of the Tambora Volcanic Eruption of 1815 on Islands and Relevance to Future Sunlight-Blocking Catastrophes'. Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (4 March 2023): 3649.

Woodworth, P. L., and J. M. Vassie. 'An Example of North Atlantic Deep-Ocean Swell Impacting Ascension and St. Helena Islands in the Central South Atlantic'. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 21, no. 7 (July 2004): 1095-100.

Wirebird articles

Clarice Chapman. ‘It all began with Halley's Comet (how work at Royal Observatory led  to an interest in Edmond Halley and, in turn, to joining Friends of St Helena)’. Wirebird: The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 11 (1995).

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