Worse than Turks: Adrian Saravia on Guernsey, 1564
A letter from the first headmaster of Elizabeth College, a native of Artois, written in 1564/5 to the Secretary of State, William Cecil.
Education
March 1811: from the newspapers
News from March 1811, 200 years ago in Guernsey. Action needs to be taken: flour, and therefore rents, are becoming too expensive and the poor are suffering; ships are being captured by the enemy in local waters and no defence is being offered. If this made you depressed, you could always go to the theatre—if you could afford it.
How to bring up your daughters: tongue-in-cheek advice from 1811
From the Gazette de L'Isle de Guernesey, March 30, 1811. Outrageous! The illustration is a detail from a fashion plate of July 1807, and is in the Library Collection.
Basket-lifting in 1833: the perils of having nothing better to do
The Comet, Friday, November 8, 1833. The illustration is a detail from a contemporary 'Moss' print of the Guernsey Markets.
Extracts from The Star, September 1916
Children misbehaving at Candie ; Healy Maindonald, bigamist ; Fishing on Sunday ; Petition re military service ; Roll of Honour ; Ernest Carré, Le Poidevin, Ferguson ; Enlistments ; Bordage widening ; Guernseymen killed ; Albion Terrace School ; Old custom for scaring birds ; Jean-Philippe De Carteret obituary ; Guernsey prices The Star , September 2, 1916 BAND INTERRUPTION AT CANDIE Many correspondents have spilt ink in writing to you complaining of the behaviour of juveniles at the Sunday evening performances in Candie, but apparently they have fallen on deaf ears, as the nuisance still…
Two hundred years ago, in October
From the local newspapers. Mr French, Music teacher; Lost by William Bird; Finucane; Helier Allez; Monsieur Ferey; Valet position required; Chaumontel pears; wet-nurse; Hospital-Lane; Pierre Mansell; Daniel de Mouilpied, Nicolas Robert, Susanne Le Ray; Oysters.
September at the turn of the 18th century
Bread Prices; Guernsey-Jersey packet and post; Josue Priaulx; Santissima Trinidad or La Preciosa; Savoir-Vivre Club; public dance at the Rohais; John Caire; Kerbey and Courtney, teachers; Millers overcharging, letter; Mr Read's Ball; gas lamps for Town.
This week in June two centuries ago ... or thereabouts
Extracts, mostly from the Gazette de Guernesey, on this day (or thereabouts) two hundred years ago.
Elizabeth College Cricket XI, 1913
Four of these boys died in the First War. Photograph from the Library Collection.
Nicolas de la Mare, 1806
A letter from Southampton; teenage schoolboy Nicolas (b. 1790) to his father, Maitre John de la Mare in Guernsey. Nicolas attends John Crouch's school in Swaythling (then called Swathling). From the Le Hurel collection of historical family documents relating to the de la Mare family, recently donated to the Library by E Hatton.