Captain Ross: The Antarctic Expedition
9th August 2024
A letter sent from a local member of Captain Ross' Expedition via the ship Alarm from the Falkland Islands, from the Guernsey Star, of September 15, 1842.
Maritime
The Launch of the 'Concordia'
1st August 2024
Witchcraft in action - literally with a pinch of salt. From a Report by J Linwood Pitts, Hon. Sec. of the Folklore Section of the Société Guernesiaise. The illustration is a photograph of a brigantine in St Peter Port Harbour, from the Priaulx Library's Photographic Collection. Please contact us if you wish to reproduce it.
Will of Thomas Le Pelley, 1643
22nd May 2024
Translation from the French transcribed by Edith Carey in her Sark notebook in the Priaulx Library.
Irish smuggling
30th March 2022
From Report relating to frauds in the Customs, 1733, Appendix, pp. 634-5.
The Kingdom of Congers
11th February 2022
From An Account of the Island of Jersey, with An Appendix of Records &c. (1694), to which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Reverend Edward Durell, MA, Rector of St Saviour, Jersey. Jersey: Richard Giffard, 1837.
When island prospered with busy shipyards
24th September 2021
Memories of an old resident. From The Star, Guernsey, Thursday June 29, 1944
Sunk by U-boat
21st June 2019
'Crew landed on Lihou island after ship had been sunk by U-boat.' An article by Carel Toms from the Guernsey Star of 27 December, 1951, in the Priaulx Library Newspaper Collection.
The last voyage of the 'Pourquoi Pas?'/Le dernier voyage du 'Pourquoi Pas?'
6th March 2019
This account of the wreck of the Pourquoi Pas, an event greeted with immense dismay in Guernsey, where Commander Jean-Baptiste Charcot was a great favourite, was kindly written by Cédric Bail, assistant curator at Hauteville House, for the Priaulx Library 'Hauteville House and the Hugo family' exhibition of summer 2018. His original French text is included below.
Quite the Guernseyman: Jean-Baptiste Charcot
6th March 2019
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, ‘the Polar Gentleman.’ Doctor, sportsman, Olympic medallist, polar explorer, friend of Captain Scott, and husband of Victor Hugo's grand-daughter Jeanne, this admirable French hero reserved a special place for Guernsey. [By Dinah Bott]
A letter from Thomas Leighton, 1594
20th January 2017
The Governor of Guernsey to Mr Carey, concerning Newfoundland. From Chefs Plaids &c p. 88.