The Winter 2012 edition of The Review is out now, and contains articles on the Brock Bicentenary celebrations in Guernsey, Barry Jones’ contribution to the Society’s archives, Rachel Dobrée, the daughter of an 18th century merchant adventurer, A Wedding in 18th Century Alderney, an update on our Occupations Words competition for schools and the final part in Stephen Foote’s Review of the Review. As a prelude to a series of articles commemorating our 70th anniversary, it also includes a reprint of our founder Sir Donald Banks’ 1942 radio broadcast  to the occupied Channel Islands entitled “Sand and Granite”. It also includes the usual summary of the latest Guernsey news, and book reviews and details of forthcoming meetings.

It’s not too late to book a place at the 70th Anniversary Lunch on 9th February where the new Bailiff will be our guest of honour. For more details, please see here

70th Anniversary Lunch, 9 February 2013

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In 2013, The Guernsey Society will be celebrating its 70th Anniversary year. Among the events planned to mark the occasion, we will be holding an Anniversary Lunch with the Bailiff of Guernsey, Mr Richard Collas (President of the Guernsey Society) and a number of other honoured guests.

The lunch will take place on 9th February 2013, at the Charing Cross Hotel, London.

The cost of the lunch will be £30 for set lunch menu, including a glass of sparkling wine on arrival.

For more details – click on the following link: Guernsey Society 70th Anniversary Lunch, 9th February 2013 (Adobe Acrobat).

Update (4 February 2013): This event is now fully booked, and we are no longer accepting reservations.

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Welcome to our new-look web site – we would like to thank the innovative and helpful team at Hamilton Brooke, who have helped design a new logo and website for the 21st century.

Our brief was to create a new logo which was fresh yet instantly recognisable as associated with Guernsey. They came up with a number of designs, and we chose the one featured here – a modern interpretation of the Guernsey Seal, which the Society has used since its foundation in 1943. We have now updated our Facebook and Twitter accounts and web site with the new logo, and look forward to the next edition of The Review, which will feature our new cover design incorporating the new logo.

We would particularly like to thank Ged Kelly for overall direction, Ben Adkins for the logo concept and design as well as his photograph of Victoria Marina featured here, and Richard Spensley for his help and advice with updating the web site.