Local history

 

The Library attempts to buy every new publication about, or with a connection to the Channel Islands.  Every attempt is made to source material, but if you know of a book that you think the library should have in its collection, please let us know here.

The local studies library contains over 10,000 items, including eighteenth and nineteenth century histories and manuscripts.  A great deal of this is relevant to the study of family history. If you would like to browse through our collection, our catalogue is available online.

The Priaulx Library has, for example, a significant collection of studies of Norman-French patois.

These include:

• Corbet, Denys, Les Chànts du drain rimeux: ou pièces de poésie originale en Guernesiais et Français;
  • Les Feuilles de la forêt: ou receuil de poésie originale, en anglais, français, et guernesiais
• de Garis, Marie, Guernesiaise: A Grammatical Survey;
  • Guernsey Dialect Names Etc.; 
  • Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernésiais
• Fleury, Jean, Essai sur le patois normand de la Hague
• Grut, Thomas, Des Lures en Guernesiais, par T.A.G.
  • P'tites Lures guernesiais, A Collection of Short Stories in Guernsey-French and English, ed. Hazel Tomlinson
• Henly, A.T., Ichìn nou pâle l'patouais; a selection of poems, old and new, in the Norman-French patois of Guernsey in the Channel Islands
• Lewis, Edwin Seelye, Guernsey, Its People and Dialect
• Lukis, Eric Fellowes,An Outline of the Norman-French Dialect of Guernsey;
  • Dgèrneziè : the Norman tongue of Guernsey
• Métivier, Georges, Dictionnaire franco-normand, ou receuil des mots particuliers au dialecte de Guernesey faisant voir leur relations romanes, celtiques et tudesques
  • Fantaisies Guernesiaises: dans le langage du pays, la langue de la civilisation, et celle du commerce
  • Poesies Guernesiaises et françaises
  • Rimes Guernsesiaises, par un Catelain
• Ozanne, Marjorie, The Collected Works of Marjorie Ozanne (1897-1973), in Guernsey French with English Translations, ed. and trans. Ken Hill, Vols. 1and 2
• Tomlinson, Harry, An examination of the Teaching of Guernsey French, 1994