Samuel Hocart and Port Grat
21st August 2020
A rapport from a collection of legal documents with reference to the Hocart family, particularly Samuel Hocart of Les Vardes.
Guernsey in old photographs: an index
16th July 2020
Nick Machon's super book, Guernsey in old photographs, based on the Guernsey Press' collection, was published in 1988 by Alan Sutton Publishing. It went through several editions. This is a list of the photographs included in it, by page.
Smallpox vaccination, 1803
7th July 2020
The plan and operation to undertake smallpox vaccination in the British Empire. From The Report on the progress of vaccine inoculation in Bengal, Volume 3, by John Shoolbred, 1805, pp. 14-16. John Dobrée was appointed to the Carmarthen in 1802; it was a new ship built by Mr Williams for the East India Co. that season (Naval Chronicle). He was previously captain of the Busbridge, an East India ship owned by Samuel Dobrée, esq., for which he had obtained a letter of marque in 1796.
Provision of Beer and Cider, 1862
30th June 2020
List of publicans, 1862
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.