Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West

Previous blog posts have described Captain William Bligh’s two visits to St Helena in 1792 and 1799. It was only on preparing for our re...

Waterwitch Column, Castle Gardens, Jamestown, May 2010  Following Britain’s decision to abolish its slave trade in 1807, in 1808 th...

The interlinking of people and places around the British Empire in the late eighteenth century is perfectly illustrated by the First Fleet ...

Thomas Gosse (1765-1844) Transplanting of the breadfruit trees from Otaheite. Gosse issued his hand-coloured mezzotint in 1796 to celebrat...

John Byron by Joshua Reynolds, 1759, National Maritime Museum Greenwich Byron and Dolphin June 1764 to May 1766 On the 21st June 1764 Commo...