Social History

The Love Apple League

24th September 2020

Love Apple League from the Lamb County Leader June 54 1959

Guernsey, Channel Islands. (Associated Press in the Lamb County Leader, June 4, 1959.) 'Five years ago a little girl picked a wild primrose—a single primrose that has blossomed in to an amazing organisation called the Love Apple League.It has no membership fee. It has no patrons. No executive committee. There is no membership card.It’s run by children.'

Sunny Guernsey, 1948

16th September 2020

Frontispiece photograph from 1952 Guernsey Tourist Brochure (c) The Priaulx Library

A newspaper report with travel statistics from September 1948: 'Air Travel Soars'. Photograph of ferry entering St Peter Port Harbour, from the 1952 Tourist Committee Brochure, Guernsey, Channel Isles: 'The Sunshine Isle'

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 miscellanea

28th November 2019

Guernsey miscellanea, a notebook by Edith Carey

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.

Girl Golf Caddies

31st May 2019

From The Morning Leader, Tuesday 18 April 1889, and Punch, 12 April 1889. Cuttings in the Priaulx Library collection. The original photograph from which the drawing is taken was by Thomas Grut. Do please contact us if you have an example of this photograph.

Extracts from old letters

22nd May 2019

The Bell Savage Inn, from the British Museum

Affecting 18th and early 19th century letters, from the Carey family, transcribed from a notebook of Edith Carey, Guernsey miscellanea. The image is of the famous Bell Savage Inn, on Ludgate Hill, London, where Catherine Baldock nee Carey reluctantly stayed in 1790 (see letter below), and is from the British Museum, Museum number 1880,1113.3266.

Remembering 1780

13th November 2018

A man in the time of George III, by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Priaulx Library

From Ferdinand Brock Tupper's History of Guernsey, printed by Stephen Barbet, New Street, Guernsey, 1854, p. 434. 'From the MS of a Guernsey jurat, now deceased, written in 1839 or 1840, we extract the following:'

Photographs in the Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society 1955-59

2nd November 2018

List of photographs in Vols. XI-XIII of this invaluable journal,which can be consulted at the Library. As listed in the original publication. The Library has original photographic prints by one of the main contributors of photographs at this period, S M Henry.

The carved chests of the Channel Islands

9th July 2018

'A slightly coloured sketch.'An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm, But richly carved by Anthony of Trent, With Scripture stories from the life of Christ; A chest that came from Venice, and had held The ducal robes of some old ancestor. That by the way—it may be true or false.[From] Rogers’ Italy.By Samuel Elliott Hoskins. Victor Hugo was not, it would seem, the first to transform the carved wooden chests of Guernsey into some other form of decorative furniture. De Beauvoir De Lisle got there before him!

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