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The Review from 2000-2009
On this page you will find a list of all the articles published in each of the The Reviews

Winter 2009
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
The Battle of Trafalgar – A Guernsey Linkby Geoff Falla
Evacuees in the North West of England by Gillian Mawson
A War-Wounded Sailor’s Hospital Romance
‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ (Part 3) by Clément Louis Houédard
Background to writing “Riduna”by Diana Jackson
Court Row Memories by Martyn Corbet
Book Review: Telling Tales by Susan Ilie
Island News

Summer 2009
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
An Anxious Sister by J Moullin Davies
The Emergence of Greenwich Time in Guernsey by David Le Conte
‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ (Part 2) by Clément Louis Houédard
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 7 by Eric Grimsley
Book Reviews:Guernsey Under Occupation : The Second World War Diaries of Violet Carey edited by Alice Evans
The Islanders by M J VermeulenObituary: James Marr
Island News

Spring 2009
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
Happy Memories of the Island by Anthony Blad
Prehistoric Torteval by Tanya Walls
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 6 by Eric Grimsley
Les Blanc Bois by John McCormack
‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ an account of the life of Clément Louis Houédard taken from his letters
Letter from Frederick Le Mesurier (Part 3)
Book Review: A Farmer’s Vacation by George E Waring Jr
Obituary: Surg Cdr John Moullin Davies RN (Ret’d)
Island News

Winter 2008
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
The German Occupation Museum by Joan Ozanne
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows by Gillian Lenfestey
Big Sam
Nicolas Blondel, an unsung Guernseyman by Geoffrey Dorey
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 5 by Eric Grimsley
Letter from Frederick Le Mesurier, Part 2
Book Reviews:From the Mouths of Babes by Dr Corral A Smith
The Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin by Mari C JonesIsland News

Summer 2008
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
Publishing my Grandfather’s Memoirs by Jane Devonald
Gormley in Guernsey
The Giant’s Bowl Fire
The Agilis
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 4 by Eric Grimsley
Letter from Frederick Le Mesurier
Book Reviews:The Guernsey Potato Peel and Literary Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mined Where You Walk by Richard Le TissierIsland News

Spring 2008
Chairman’s Message by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
A Guernsey Lad
Nancy Tidd’s Occupation Diary, Part 3
Finding a Likeness by Michael Paul
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 3 by Eric Grimsley
The Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts
Memories
Les Iles Chausey before, during and after the reign of Queen Elizabeth I by James Marr
Book Review: Kingsley House School and the Three Robin Sisters by Ray Le Mesurier-Foster
Further Recollections of Bonnie Newton by Bill Bell
Obituary: Richard Walker
Island News

Winter 2007
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
Nancy Tidd’s Occupation Diary, Part 2
The History of Guernsey Agriculture, 1835-1947 by R O Falla with notes by David Le Conte
Buccaneering Bonnie by Bill Bell
Granny’s in the Cart by Anthony Blad
Memories of the Grange and Queen’s Road by Martyn Corbet
Book Reviews:Love Apple Island by Yvonne Ozanne
Guernsey in the 21st Century by Tony GallienneThe Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey, Part 2 by Eric Grimsley
Island News

Summer 2007
Chairman’s Message by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership & Forthcoming Meetings
The New Tax Strategy and ‘Go for Growth’ Debate by David de Lisle
The Famous General Dumouriez by J Moullin Davies
Nancy Tidd’s Occupation Diary
The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey by Eric Grimsley
Ebenezer back in print by Stephen Foote
Book Review: Guernsey 1814-1914: Migration and Modernisation by Rose-Marie Crossan
Back Issues: Can you help?
Island News

Spring 2007
Chairman’s Message by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Forest Parish Quarries at Le Fond du Val by R L Heaume
Ornithologists on Alderney by Jeremy G Saunders
Web Site update by Stephen Foote
Les Babouins à Tortéva by Michael Paul
Guernsey’s Postal Links by Joan Ozanne
Guernsey Folk and Costume Museum
Guernsey’s First Ancient Monument and its Dedicatee by James Marr
Lt Col Mackelcan and the Ross Affair by Peter Johnston
Book Review: A Fair and Honest Book by Ambrose Sherwill
Island News

Winter 2006
Editorial
Membership
Forthcoming Meetings
Daniel and Rachel by J Moullin Davies
Vignalis, patron of Alderney by Jane Bliss
A Guernseyman dates a Viennese Heroine by James Marr
Contribution to the Christian Life of the Island by Father Charles Chauvel SDB
Preseving the Alderney Post Office valuables by Donald P Honey
Obituary: Mervyn Geoffrey Harwood, BSc MInstP
Book ReviewsJames Saumarez – Admiral Lord De Saumarez of Guernsey by David Shayer
A Family Business by Michael BestIsland News

Summer 2006
Editorial
Membership
Forthcoming Meetings
“Pugnans Quintus” by Michael Paul
Nearly Caught by a Corsair by Gillian Lenfestey
A Wartime Passage to India by Roy Honey
The Space above the Chancel Vaulting by John McCormack FSA
A Cowardly and Contemptible Put-Up Job by James Marr
Book Review – Island Destiny by Roger Le Tissier
Visit to St Appoline’s Chapel
Revised Rates of Pay
Island News

Spring 2006
Chairman’s Message
Editorial
Society NewsMembership
Election of Vice Presidents
Forthcoming MeetingsSetting the Scene for Murder by Chris Morvan
The Sorry Tale of Capt. Abraham Simon and the ship Sophia, by G Lenfesty
Cider Making in Guernsey
Lt Col John Mackelcan 1797-1809 Part 3 by Peter Johnston
The Reverend Brother Robert OSJ-BS MBE by James Marr
The Friends of Priaulx Library
Book ReviewsMy Beloved Toto – Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882, edited by Evelyn Blewer, translated
by Victoria Tietze Larson
The Channel Islands 1941-45 – Hitler’s impregnable fortress by Charles StephensonIsland News

Winter 2005
Editorial
Our President
Membership/ Forthcoming Meetings
Teenage Recollections Part 2 by Peter Falla
Lt Col John Mackelcan 1797-1809 Part 2 by Peter Johnston
The Autumn of Liberation Year 1945 by Nicholas Thomas
John Leale – Our Island Champion by Herbert White
A Man o’ Pairts by Gillian Hull
Island News

Summer 2005
Chairman’s Message from Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Membership/ Forthcoming Meetings
Liberation Day 2005Guernsey Churches during the Occupation by Janet John
Teenage Recollections by Peter Falla
The Autumn of Liberation Year 1945 by Michael MarshallGuernsey Lily International Film & Video Festival by Joan M Ozanne
Book Review: Here and There, a selection of poetry by Leonard, Michael & Christopher Davis
Lt Col John Mackelcan, Commanding Royal Engineer. Fort George, 1797-1809 Part 1 by Peter Johnston
Obituary: Jurat Richard A Kinnersley
A Personal Recollection
Channel Islanders in New Zealand
Island News

Spring 2005
Editorial by Michael Paul
800th Anniversary Dinner by John Stranger
Medieval Mystery and Intrigue by Jenny Chamier Grove
A Well Dressed Bachelor by J Moullin Davies
Recollections of a Conscripted Volunteer by Roy Honey
Memories of Japan
A Mythical Horse by James Marr
In and Out of Guernsey by James Marr
No 42 the Bordage
Congratulations/ Corrigendum
Letters to the Editor
Book Review: The Government and Law of Guernsey by Dr Darryl Ogier
Island News

Winter 2004
Editorial by Michael Paul
Occupation Memories by Mrs May Guille
View through to the other side of the World
Paradis by Canon V J Collas
Our Robust Indepdence by Roger Perrot
Visit to the German Naval Signals HQ
The Guardian of the Tomb - Portrait of a Neolithic Man ? by Brian Bonnard
St Michel du Valle
Book Review: The Charters of Guernsey by Tim Thornton
Island News

Summer 2004
From the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Michael Paul
Celebration 800
Outlines of life in Guernsey in the 17th Century by Eric Bailleul Moullin (January 1944)
Whither Guernsey Revisited by Dr Nicholas Le Poidevin
Measuring the Earth by Dr Charles Backhouse
Guernsey General Election by John Schute
The Importance of our Language (Part 2) by WT (Bill) Gallienne
800th Anniversary Dinner (in conjunction with the Jersey Society)
“Fatal Occurence at Guernsey”
Society NewsGuernsey Society web site update
St James
Winchester Visit
Visit to Sausmarez ManorBook Review
Fishing in Guernsey by Peter Perrio
Island News

Spring 2004
Editorial by Michael Paul
The Angevin Debacle by James Marr
Saints Farm by John McCormack
The Gospel according to St James (Part 2) by Peter Niven
The Guernsey Clematis
The Importance of our Language by WT (Bill) Gallienne
Book ReviewGuernsey Sundials by David and Dorothy Le Conte
The Guernsey Museum
Letter to the Editor
Island News

Winter 2003
Editorial by Michael Paul
Floral Guernsey by Evan Ozanne & Peter Falla
A Daughter’s Share: Judith Mancel (1728-1799) by J Moullin Davies
The Gospel according to St James Part I (based on a talk in London) by Peter Niven
Strange But True: The Extraordinary Strength of Freemasonry in 19th Century Guernsey by James Marr
Changes to the Machinery of Government in Guernsey (based on a talk in London) by Tom Le Pelley
Book ReviewsSt Peter Port – People & Places by Carel Toms
Shipwrecks of the Channel Islands by John Ovenden & David Shayer in association with Paul HaslamIsland News
Obituary: Jim Mooney

Summer 2003
A Message from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
The Society’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations by Mervyn Harwood & David Godfrey
An Ex-Pat’s view of Guernsey and Sark by Brian Le Messurier
1803 – an anxious year for the island by Peter Johnston
New Architecture in Guernsey by John Schute
Olaudah Equiano: An African Slave in Guernsey by Brycchan Carey
Remembering the Evacuation by Joan M Ozanne
Island News
Obituary: Martin Harvey

Spring 2003
“A l’Aide Mon Prince” by L. James Marr
Parish Crests by Peter Johnston
On the Guernsey Breed of Cattle by Devoniensis
Edwyn Breton Andros: A young Guernsey Officer in the Indian Mutiny, Part 3 by Geoffrey Andrews
Guernsey Island News by Doreen Mooney
Obituary: Carel Toms
Book Reviews:“Two Men and a Woman” by L. James Marr
“Dictionary of Painters of the Channel Islands” by Brian Le Messurier

Autumn 2002
The Guernsey Tapestry: a community project worked by the people for the people by Margaret Paul
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885: Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of his birth by Gregory Stevens-Cox
Daniel and Caroline by J Moullin Davies
Edwyn Breton Andros: A young Guernsey Officer in the Indian Mutiny, Part 2 by Geoffrey Andrews
The First Headmaster of Les Beaucamps School by Peter Johnston
The Last of a Noble Band by James Marr
Book Review: The History of Guernsey: The Bailiwick Story by James Marr

Summer 2002
The Braye du Valle – A Little of its History by the late Peter Bennett and Austin Mann
Edwyn Brenton Andros – A Young Guernsey Officer in the Indian Mutiny Part 1 by Geoffrey Andrews
Guernsey Butchers and the 19th Century Meat Trade Part 2 by Stephen Foote

Spring 2002
Guernsey’s e-commerce initiative Part 1 by Peter Harris
The Faculty Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court of Guernsey by N M Ozanne
Jacques, Pierre et Marie by James Marr
Proposed Copper Mine at Havelet Bay by Peter Johnston
Havilland Hall as Government House by Peter Johnston
“A Couple of Disrepute” by Joan Ryder

Autumn 2001
Guernsey Butchers and the 19th Century Meat Trade Part I by Stephen Foote
“The Old Prison”: poem by Sylvia Hickman
Henry de Saumarez by Gregory Stevens-Cox
Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-Leggety Beasties by L James Marr
Rambling on La Côte des Isles by Brian Ahier Read
Book Review: Selected Poetry of Victor Hugo

Summer 2001
Launch of the Guernsey Society Website by Stephen Foote
The Building of Fort George Citadel 1779-1782, Part 2 by Peter Johnston
Entries, Cross-Passages and Jetties by John McCormack
Black List ? by V J Collas
Guernsey’s Twice-met Goddess and the Significance of Special Numbers by L James Marr
Letter from Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 6th July 1801
“White Nights” by Sylvia Hickman
Book Review: Guernsey between the Wars
Guernsey Society Accounts

Spring 2001
“Third Time Lucky” by V J Collas
The Town Church Roofs by John McCormack
Exhibition Programme 2001
Harbour Memories by Peter de B Hart
Diary of Charles H Toms during 1917 Part 2 by Carel Toms
Queen Victoria visits Alderney by Dr Jean Bonnard
Review of Publications
Description of a Fine Cow by Mrs Sarah Lowe

Autumn 2000
de Beauvoir Town and the Englefield Estate by Peter de B Hart
The Building of Fort George Citadel 1779-1782 Part 1 by Peter Johnston
Diary of Charles H Toms during 1917 Part 1 by Carel Toms
Artists in the Channel Islands during the Nineteenth Century Part 2 by Jonathan V oak
Book Review: Sark: A Feudal Fraud?

Summer 2000
Sark: a Renaissance: Part 2 by John McCormack
The Golden Guernsey Goat by Carolyn Drewitt
Artists in the Channel Islands in the Nineteenth Century Part 1 by Jonathan Voak
Letter from Frederick Le Mesurier, 1777 Part 2
19th Century measures against fires in Guernsey by Peter Johnston

Spring 2000
Sark: a Renaissance: Part 1 by John McCormack
Letter from Frederick Le Mesurier, 1777 Part 1
Extract from a Christmas Letter
Self Appraisal by Frank Stroobant
Proposed Harbour at Fermain Bay by Peter Johnston
The London Gazette Extraordinary Monday 3 August 1801