6th March 2024
The history of a rather controversial piece of agricultural land. Research by D Bott & G Lenfestey, 2024. Written by G Lenfestey.On the western side of the Fort Road, between the top of the Val de Terres and Morley Chapel, is a large field, formerly known as the Courtil Colin, divided 2/3 and 1/3, and the 1/3 is divided into equal halves.There is a story that the fields have an embargo on them regarding building accommodation for domestic use on them, and that the larger field has always been known as The Queen's Field. The origin of this embargo, and the name 'The Queen's Field', is not known, but it has always been like that.
6th March 2024
Notre Dame de la Perelle, Now known as Sainte ApollineBy George MétivierTranslated from a newspaper article originally written in French. He was an avid philologist, sometimes incorrect in his suppositions; his style is full of asides and annotations.
28th December 2023
New Year in the Channel Islands. From the Star, 17 January 1930.
29th November 2023
A second miscellany of Guernsey's history and its people. Published in 1990 by the Guernsey Press Company Ltd. A list of contents and photographs for reference.
29th November 2023
'Dedicated to more than 230 Guernsey sailors, soldiers and airmen who made the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.' A list of the Guernsey servicemen and women whose biographies and accounts of their wartime experiences, often accompanied by photographs, are covered in this book by Richard Allisette, published by the Guernsey Press in 1985. There are copies in the Priaulx Library.
15th November 2023
A list of chapter headings and photographs in Peter Girard's Guernsey: a miscellany of Guernsey history and its people, by Peter J Girard. Published by the Guernsey Press in 1986. The owners of the photographs are to be found in the acknowledgments, including those photographs belonging to the Priaulx Library Collection.
18th October 2023
"Homes that will vanish under island 'lake'. How the families face the future. Problem for a mother of eleven." From The Weekly Press, 1938
27th July 2023
Staff collection, volume XVI (Shelf 40)
19th July 2023
From the Star, January 3, 1895. (The historical assertions are not necessarily accurate). "The following is translated from an article by [journalist and theatre critic] Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899) in Le Petit Journal:
7th July 2023
A report from the Guernsey Evening Press of 12 December 1935 of a visit to the Priaulx Library by the Société Guernesiaise. 'A sudden enthusiasm is always interesting, and this was seen at the Priaulx Library, Candie, when, following the reading of a most fascinating paper on the history and contents to La Société Guernesiase by Mr Ralph Durand, the learned Librarian, some 30 of the members of the Society went browsing among that 15,000 books and notable editions found on the shelves.'
17th February 2023
A letter from Mary Naftel, nee Higman (b. Cornwall, 1756-1820), to Mary Harrison, 1799. From The Friends' Miscellany, Volume 11. Mary was the wife of clockmaker and Quaker Nicholas Naftel (1762-1852), and travelled extensively in the ministry, including to America.
22nd September 2022
The Star, Saturday, September 10, 1887. The photograph is of the Crown Princess in 1885 with her only daughter, Elisabeth.
