The 'Tristan da Cunha Newsletter' is a full colour magazine for members and islanders published twice per year. It has news and feature articles, lavishly illustrated with photographs that do not appear on the website.

See also:

Association News

The Newsletter is distributed free to members and to island families.
Spare copies are initially reserved for new members or extra copies for members. - see the Association Shop for details.
Please note: Longer articles and many images are reserved for the newsletter and not available on the website.

August 2025 Newsletter

44 pages of Tristan news and features,
published in August 2025.

Contents:

  • Cover photo: Owen Glass speaking in the House of Commons
  • Owen Glass becomes the youngest person to speak in the House of Commons, by Chris Carnegy
  • Review of island matters from Administrator Philip Kendall
    • Election 2025; New Council; Fishing Concession; Solar Energy; Education; Economy; Tristan Overseas
  • Family News
    • Birth of Louie Mikey Swain; A story of Hope. by Charlie Mawer
  • Anna Hicks and Neil Golding report on their 2025 Tristan fieldwork
  • Building and living in a 21st Century Tristan home, by Kelly Green
  • New Orienteering map of Tristan da Cunha's Settlement Plain, by Chris Moncaster
  • Tristan Post Office News
  • A tribute to Michael Swales
  • Obituaries
    • Harold Green; Anderson Green; Mary Glass; Gladys Lavarello; Eric P Glass Jr; Trina Lavarello
  • Tristan da Cunhsa Assocation Matters
    • TDCA Annual Gathering 2025
    • Memory in Motion - Reflections on the Tristan Archive, by Nick Schönfeld
    • What the Tristan da Cunha Association does
  • Heads or Tails - Photo miscellany

February 2025 Newsletter

Contents of the 'Tristan da Cunha Newsletter', February 2025,
23-Jan-2025
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Newsletter Editor: Richard Grundy - Email: newseditor@tristandc.com

Newsletter Contributions

Items for future editions are very welcome. Contributions must have some connection with Tristan da Cunha islands

Articles

  • Please outline your proposal and send it by email to Richard Grundy in the first instance.
  • Please send the text of your contribution by email as an attached Word document.

Photographs

  • Image files should be attached separately to emails and not solely embedded in Word documents.
  • High resolution images are needed to achieve good print quality as PNG or JPEG files.
  • Very high-quality images in portrait orientation are needed for the front cover – e.g. over 8MB.
  • If your files are too large for your email system, they can be sent using free online services such as WeTransfer.

It will be assumed, unless specifically requested otherwise, that items offered for use in the newsletter can also be used for the website and by the Tristan Association in other publications.