Welcome to Guernsey's Local Studies and Family History Centre

The Priaulx Library's mission is to promote and celebrate Guernsey life, language, history, culture, and literature, and to give access to our unique rare book collection.

The Library has provided the images for an exciting new set of stamps on the theme of Evacuation, just issued.

New: August 1818: Mr Lenfestey's troubles in Gaspé

Ocean-Man: An exhibition - Victor Hugo, l'homme océan

The Pick of the Bunch: a tourist brochure from 1934

The Diary of Harriet Brock Pengelley: a link

Two new illustrated books on island transport

Minutes of the Controlling Committee of the States of Guernsey, 1940-45

Jerbourg Signal Station and the Saumarez Tower

Question: who wrote this and when?

Cross a ravine, go down and across Mill Street, into a sort of fissure between two tall houses, climb up a narrow and interminable set of tortuously winding steps with loose paving stones, and you find yourself in a Bedouin village; hovels, cracks in the roads, dirt alleys, burnt beams, ruined houses, deserted rooms, windowless and doorless with grass growing inside them, girders across the road, ruins blocking the way, here and there an inhabited cottage, little naked boys, pale women; you would think you were in Zaatcha.

Clue: the original is in French. Answer here!