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21 December: A Love-Spell for St Thomas' Eve

'The night of 21 December was thought in Guernsey to be a night when spirits walked abroad, when it was dangerous to be outside; but this made it a very auspicious night for magic.' From Guernsey Folk Lore, p. 408.

Review of the High Street, Part II; December 1824

Receipt from Henry Giffard, Guernsey, Priaulx Library Collection

Part II, From the Sarnian Monthly Selection, Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Dumaresq and Mauger, Church-Street, Guernsey, 1825, p. 217.

January 1854: Off to Australia

Horrible death of a mystery man, too many islanders are going to Australia, the passengers of the brig Secret, mind your head on the lamp!

Jean Falla's Eldership, 1688

This document was transcribed by Edith Carey and added to her own copy of the Pedigree of the Falla Family.

A February selection: desperate people

Governor Ling thinks poor children are too much of a nuisance; Anne Le Page's remedies don't work and she ends up in the Cage; an interesting proposal from France; Mrs Thomas and Mrs Langworthy have a fight.

How to bring up your daughters: tongue-in-cheek advice from 1811

Fashion July 1807 from Priaulx Library Collection

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.

The Eidouranion

William Berry's theatrical lectures on popular astronomy, 1811, advertised in the Mercure.

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.

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21 December: A Love-Spell for St Thomas' Eve

Review of the High Street, Part II; December 1824

January 1854: Off to Australia

Jean Falla's Eldership, 1688

A February selection: desperate people

How to bring up your daughters: tongue-in-cheek advice from 1811

The Eidouranion

March 1811: from the newspapers

La Longue Veille: from the Monthly Selection of December 1824

Enlistments: November 28th 1916

42, Fountain Street

Lost things: St Magloire

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