Livre de Jugements et Records Vol. 1
6th March 2020
Edith Carey notebook.
List of Photographs in the Review of the Guernsey Society (1977-1980)
24th February 2020
Vols. XXXIII-IV. It should be noted that the credit for photographs appears in these volumes mostly to be to the source, rather than the photographer.
Guernsey is more expensive than France!
14th February 2020
From the Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser, 9 December 1842
Sieur Pierre Henry's account, 1685
11th December 2019
From Edith Carey's notebook in the Library, Guernsey miscellanea. From John Hoskin's MSS.
Guernsey miscellanea
28th November 2019
Guernsey miscellanea, a notebook by Edith Carey
New use for old arch
10th July 2019
From the Guernsey Press, June 1970.
Viaer Marchi 1970
25th June 2019
'This Guernsey Evening was a huge success.' From the Guernsey Press, 14 July 1970, reporting on the previous evening's event.
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.
Girl Golf Caddies
31st May 2019
From The Morning Leader, Tuesday 18 April 1889, and Punch, 12 April 1889. Cuttings in the Priaulx Library collection. The original photograph from which the drawing is taken was by Thomas Grut. Do please contact us if you have an example of this photograph.
Extracts from old letters
22nd May 2019
Affecting 18th and early 19th century letters, from the Carey family, transcribed from a notebook of Edith Carey, Guernsey miscellanea. The image is of the famous Bell Savage Inn, on Ludgate Hill, London, where Catherine Baldock nee Carey reluctantly stayed in 1790 (see letter below), and is from the British Museum, Museum number 1880.1113.3266.
Victor Hugo and Guernsey: My school years at Elizabeth College, by Jean Hugo
10th May 2019
My school years at Elizabeth College, by Jean Hugo (1894-1984), from his autobiographical work, Le Regard de la mémoire, Paris: Actes Sud, 1983. Fond memories of Guernsey and characters such as 'Soapy Sam' and 'Peewee' are expressed in painterly language by the artist and great-grandson of Victor Hugo, who was a boarder at Elizabeth College. The illustration is of a drawing made by Jean's stepfather, René-Georges Hermann-Paul (1874-1940), of Jean, his mother Pauline, and the valet de chambre arriving for Jean's first term at Elizabeth College in 1907. This drawing was sold at Christie's, Paris, in 2012.By Dinah Bott. From the French.
Victor Hugo and Guernsey: Jeanne Hugo
10th May 2019
Victor Hugo's granddaughter Jeanne (1869-1941) was the apple of his eye. She knew Guernsey well. She married a childhood friend, the controversial author Léon Daudet (1867-1942), who had plenty to say about Victor Hugo - very little of it complimentary. The marriage did not last long.By Dinah Bott.