November 5, 1907: trouble
Guy Fawkes Night in Trinity Square, and a home-made pipe bomb in St Martin's. From The Star, June 1907.
Children
My little brothers: Christmas with Victor Hugo, 1862
From the Gazette de Guernesey, Saturday 27 December, a report on Hugo's Christmas party for deprived children; a letter from Hugo to his wife, whose idea it all was in the first place; and another to the French publisher Castel, in which he plans to donate the proceeds of a new book of drawings to his poor Guernsey protégés. The editor of the Gazette at this time was Hugo's friend and disciple, Guernseyman Henri Marquand. The photograph accompanying this article is dated 1868. It was taken in March by Arsène Garnier. (Another very similar set of photographs was taken by a Jerseyman with a studio in London, named Henry Frankland, in February 1868; the Library has a photographic plate of one of these iconic images.) This particular photograph was popular with the public at the time; they could buy it in the local shops.Article by Dinah Bott.
Winter 1916
From the local newspapers.
January 1828
From the Star newspaper.
Gleanings in local history, March 1892
From the The Guernsey Magazine, a Monthly Illustrated Journal, March 1892, [p. 440]. 'The following gleanings from our local history, will no doubt prove of considerable interest':
Maybugs
A cruel pastime is banned.
Off to America with Jean De Jersey, 1752
From the Archives of the Town Hospital, 1752.
January 1837
From the Mann-Dobrée letters, in the Library.
Dieu sauve la Reine!
The National anthem, translated from the English by John R. Tardif, Esq., and sung at the St Martin's School Jubilee Treat, 28 June 1897, for which it was specially written. From Roswell's Diamond Jubilee Record of the Parish of St Martin's, 1897.
October 1822
Extracts from the French language local newspaper L'Indépendance, and the English-language Star.