November 1834: Wrecks and Wickedness
From the newspapers of November 1834. The illustration is a detail from Cecilia Montgomery's ink and gouache sketch, Pier, Castle Cornet, in the Library Collection.
Library Newspaper Collection
1786 and all that
Translations from the French of selections from the early Gazettes.
April 1809 and 1819
From local newspapers.
March 1820
Guernsey newspapers of 1820. Cemeteries, magicians, orang-utans and hot baths.
Servants in Silks
From The Sarnian Monthly Magazine, July, 1815. The illustration is from My Sketch Book, part of the Library's extensive collection of works illustrated by George Cruikshank, which can be viewed on request.
The first flower show, July 1833
The Gardener's Magazine, Vol. 9, 1833, and other extracts from local newspapers.
June 1811
From the Gazette de Guernesey, some translated from the original French. This was a very bad time for island banks, which had relied heavily on defaulting banks in London; the crash of the firm of Brock & Le Mesurier, operating out of London, took with it small local banks dependent on it.
May 11, 1815: Fire in Town
From The Sarnian Monthly Magazine, June 1825.
1897: Utopia in Alderney
A Tolstoyan colony (communal, semi-pacifist, vegetarian, elitist) was planned for Alderney.
Celebrations for Queen Victoria's wedding, Monday, February 10, 1840
Guernsey was muted in its celebration of the royal wedding in 1840. Not everybody agreed with the official approach, and things got rather fraught.