11th April 2016
As part of our Exhibition to complement the Victor Hugo in Guernsey Festival, we were honoured to be able to display a miniature in bronze of Gilliatt by E-J Carlier, very kindly brought over to us from Paris by Professor Jean-Marc Hovasse, a leading expert in Hugo studies. The bronze normally resides in the Hugo Museum at the Place des Vosges, Paris. [ Photograph by Becky Nel. ] Emile-Joseph…
The Priaulx Library's St Aubyn room, where we keep our art, social and ancient history and Guernsey French collections, has always been a sunny and peaceful place to settle down to reading or research. It is even more lovely now, however, as it is flooded with colour from a beautiful stained glass window that has been transferred here from its original home at Kinloss Barracks in Scotland. The window was commissioned in 1984 to commemorate the founding of 'Guernsey's Own' 201 Squadron RAF in 1914.
The Guernsey Literary Festival ran from 12th-15th May 2011. The Priaulx Library was the venue for discussions of the book that perhaps most represents Guernsey for islanders, G.B. Edwards' The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, with Professor Edward Chaney, the man to whom the book was dedicated. This represented a very interesting opportunity for those who appreciate this much admired work. On 12th May,…
The Earl and Countess of Wessex took a tour of the Priaulx Library as part of a two-day Bailiwick visit. They saw displays of 18 th - and 19 th -century material relevant to local history and some of the finest pieces from the Library's collection of rare books, including a mediaeval Book of Hours . Members of the team who installed the Library's new lift were proud to meet them, and…
The link with this part of France and Guernsey is historically very strong, with a fundamental part of the original social and cultural institutions of the island being based in this region, and we hope to build on this already firm foundation and expand and strengthen our linguistic and genealogical links in the years to come. On show were our newspaper collection—seeing the Battle of Waterloo…
A lift has now been installed in the Library, together with improved facilities for the disabled. Although the majority of the Library's public areas are at ground-floor level, the newspaper room is one of the most used in the building and is situated on the first floor, while the Council Room is on the second, so improving access will benefit many of those who make use of our Library. This was a…
