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The Review from 2010-2019 

On this page you will find a list of all the articles published in each of the The Reviews

Winter 2009
Winter 2019
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Forthcoming Meetings
    Visit to Greenwich
    Blue Plaque update

  • Guernsey’s Insurance Industry, Part 1 – 1770s to the 1970s by Martin Le Pelley

  • The Circumstances of Samuel Le Page by Alan Le Page Morris

  • Montreuil-sur-Mer by Keith Le Page

  • Guernsey Around the World: High Wycombe by Stephen Foote

  • Les Vardes Quarry by Stephen Foote

  • Mullholland grave update

  • Book Reviews:We Will Teach! by Jenny Head & Anne Johns
    Island Song by Madeleine Bunting
    Channel Islands in the Great War by Stephen Wynn
    Promises Not Forgotten by Gerald Breen
    Victor Hugo and the Sea by Gregory Stevens Cox

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Summer 2019
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Forthcoming Meetings
    AGM Report
    Boules Muratti result
    Blue Plaque update
    Letter to the Editor

  • A History of the Manor House, Les Vardes by Susan Ilie

  • The Digital Priaulx by Dinah Bott

  • Reopening of Hauteville House by Michael Paul

  • Guernsey Around the World: Upper Canada College by George Matheson

  • Desmond Mulholland appeal by Keith Pengelley

  • Guernsey Literary Festival review

  • Book Reviews:The Inheritance by Anne Allen
    Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands by Gilly Carr
    Victor Hugo: A Monumental Life by Bradley Stephens
    Victor Hugo Explores Guernsey by Gregory Stevens Cox
    Mervyn Peake: Son of Sark by Stephen Foote
    A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Spring 2019
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Forthcoming Meetings
    Electronic Copies of The Review
    Society publications
    David Godfrey Memorial Lecture
    Guernsey Literary Festival preview
    Obituaries: Dorothy Dowding & Roger Perrot

  • The Colourful World of Guernsey Stamps by Keith Le Page

  • Sea Scouting in Guernsey by Bill Hill

  • Carbon Dating a St Martin’s Farmhouse by George Matheson

  • Eisteddfod Trophy Winner: Pippa McCathie

  • Guernsey Around the World:Sarre Avenue, Hornchurch
    Guernsey Drive, Fleet
    Rue Godfrey, Guernsey

  • Cousins of my Cousins by Stephen Foote

  • Book Reviews:A Women’s History of Guernsey by Rose-Marie Crossan
    Hitler’s British Isles by Duncan Barrett
    Rupert: The Bear Facts by Howard Smith

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Winter 2018
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Forthcoming Meetings
    Back Issues & Electronic Copies of The Review
    Society publications
    75th Anniversary Lunch
    Obituary: Joan Ozanne

  • 50 Years of Perry’s Guides by Roy Perry

  • Osmond Cecil Tostevin (1893-1928) by Bob Tostevin

  • A Short History of St Mary’s Church, L’Islet by John Le Page

  • Guernsey Around the World: Maujer Street, Brooklyn by Stephen Foote

  • WW1 Exhibition, Island Archives by Nathan Coyde

  • Guernsey Lily (poem) by Richard Fleming

  • Book Reviews:L’Ile dans les iles Olivier Meriel
    Silver Mining on Sark by David Synott
    Victor Hugo’s St Peter Port by Gregory Stevens Cox
    Mansion, Manor & Merchant Houses by Trevor Cooper
    Man of War: The Fighting Life of Admiral James de Saumarez by Anthony Sullivan
    The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by David Le Page (Audio CD)

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Summer 2018
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Forthcoming Meetings
    GDPR
    Back Issues & Electronic Copies of The Review
    Boules Muratti 2018

  • Cultivating Beauty: the work of William Caparne by Jane Mosse

  • Tragic plane crash over Stubton by Brian Le Masurier

  • Guernsey, Wyoming by David Le Conte

  • Origin of the surname “Guernsey”

  • De La Rue and the Guernsey Society by Stephen Foote

  • Saints Bay Loophole Tower Restoration

  • Potato Peel Fever Hits Guernsey by Dawsey Priaulx

  • Book Reviews:The Devil’s Claw by Lara Dearman
    The Betrayal by Anne Allen
    Where Seagulls Dare by Paul Sherman
    The Silent War by Frank Falla

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Spring 2018
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Future Meetings
    Guernsey Under German Rule

  • Eisteddfod Trophy Winner: “The Little Aunts” by Sarah Conlan

  • Sisters Meet At Last by Bridgett Bridle

  • The Reverend Mr Daffodil by Bruce Parker

  • Lieutenant Paul Rises to Fame by Michael Paul

  • Guernsey Grove, Herne Hill by Laurence Marsh

  • Lost Chapels and Hospital of St Sampson’s by Susan Ilie

  • Postcard from Laufen – update

  • John Lewis: the Guernsey connection by Stephen Foote

  • Book Reviews:John Wilson, Guernsey’s Architect: A Celebration by Simon Coombe
    Guernsey Legends by Jane Mosse & Frances Lemmon

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Winter 2017
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesGuernsey Under German Rule
    Membership
    Obituary: Sylvia Cartwright
    Future Meetings
    WW1 Battlefield Tour
    Exhibition: ‘On British Soil’
    Can You Help?
    Guernsey Eisteddfod Trophy for Local Poetry

  • Sarnia Ontario by George Matheson

  • Sark Folk Festival by Martin Le Pelley

  • Early Guernsey Postage and Postmarks by Mike Zinopoulos

  • RGLI Commemoration Stone: Dedication at Masnieres by Keith Le Page

  • Private Fred Mahy, RGLI by Nick Le Messurier

  • Are all Le Pages related? by Keith Le Page

  • Book Reviews:Voices from the Past: Channel Islands Invaded by Simon Hamon
    St James the Less – Guernsey by Peter Niven
    Zoffany’s Daughter: Love and treachery on a small island by Stephen Foster
    Les Travailleurs de la Mer – some Guernsey perspectives by Gregory Stevens Cox

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Summer 2017
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Obituary: C.M. Zinopoulos
    Forthcoming Meetings
    AGM Report
    La Mare de Carteret donation
    Boules Muratti 2017
    Guernsey Literary Festival

  • Sebastian Faulks: the Guernsey Connection by Stephen Foote

  • Victor Hugo – Man on a Bench

  • P.G. Wodehouse in Dulwich by Bruce Parker

  • Channel Islands in West London by Stephen Foote

  • An Old Photo Led Me Back To My Roots by George Matheson

  • Arrival at Biberach by Stephen Matthews

  • Book Reviews:Stone Witness by Richard Fleming
    The Big Book of Guernsey Sport by Rob Batiste
    Guernsey As It Used To Be by George W.J.L. Hugo
    The Novel of the Century by David Bellos

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Spring 2017
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Society NoticesMembership
    Guernsey Literary Festival sponsorship
    Forthcoming Meetings
    Survey Results
    WW1 Battlefield Tour

  • The Castel Church: some comments by John McCormack

  • The Wreck of the Echo 1884: A Christmas Tragedy, Part 2 by Stephen Foote

  • The Little Chapel Foundation with John Silvester

  • Guernsey Eisteddfod trophy winner: ’A Bordeaux Stone’ by Jan Hugo

  • Brexit and the Bailiwick by Jonathan Le Tocq

  • Book Reviews:Poverty & Welfare in Guernsey, 1560-2015 by Rose-Marie Crossan
    The Country People of Guernsey and their Agriculture 1640-1840 by Richard Hocart
    LOOKback by Rob Batiste

  • Island News by Michael Paul

Winter 2009
Winter 2016
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Stephen Foote

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • A Reunion of Strangers by Frank Stranger

  • Rhyme and Remembrance: The Poetry of WW2 Evacuation by Gillian Mawson

  • The Wreck of the Echo 1884: A Christmas Tragedy by Stephen Foote

  • La Gran’mère du Chimquière by Richard Fleming

  • Book Review:Through Spain with Wellington edited by Adrian Greenwood

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2016
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Les Amarreurs Harbour by Stephen Foote

  • Boules Muratti 2016

  • Reginald Henry Ollivier – a biography by Lynne Potter

  • Letters from the Front: Reginald Ollivier – Part 2 introduced by Nathan Coyde

  • Postcard from Laufen by Stephen Foote

  • Christmas Cards

  • Obituary: David Godfrey by Michael Paul

  • Book Reviews:Glint of Light on Broken Glass by Jason Monaghan
    The States and Secondary Education 1560-1979 by Rose-Marie Crossan

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2016
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Guernsey and the Norman Conquest by Professor John Le Patourel

  • Letters from the Front: Reginald Ollivier by Nathan Coyde

  • 1948 Liberation Stamp by Stephen Foote

  • Book ReviewsChannel Island Houses by John McCormack
    Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands German Occupation 1940-45 by Gilly Carr, Paul Saunder & Louise Wilmot

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2015
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • The Fate of Seaman Charles Hancock by Stephen Foote

  • Guernsey Merchants and the Development of Tsarist Russia’s Textile Industry by Dr Stuart Thompstone

  • St Pierre du Bois Football team in Keighley, 1941 by Stephen Foote

  • An Overview of the Military Importance of Guernsey over the last 2000 years by Simon Went

  • Just Save One for Me (poem) by George Farnham

  • Donation to the Guernsey Museum

  • Alderney’s Momentous Question (follow-up)

  • Book Reviews:Genius Friend by Edward Chaney
    At Their Majesties’ Service by Richard Graham

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2015
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • My Australian Cousins by Keith Le Page

  • Bringing the General Home by Kevin Cavanagh

  • Alderney’s Momentous Question by E. Parry

  • Boules Muratti 2015

  • Names of the Channel Islands revisited by John McCormack

  • Catholic Priests exiled in Guernsey – Part 3 by Sam Clapp

  • ‘Genius Friend’: Edward Chaney’s new biography of G.B. Edwards by Stephen Foote

  • Book Review:Secret Guernsey by Amanda Bennett

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2015
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • From St Sampsons to the House of Lords by Baroness Jill Pitkeathley

  • Seventy Years Ago by Dorothy Dowding

  • The Guernsey Meteor and Earthquake of 1843 by Geoff Falla

  • Defoe’s Guernsey Lake by Stephen Foote

  • Catholic Priests Exiled in Guernsey, Part 2 by Sam Clapp

  • A Visit to the Battlefields in the 1920s by Michael Paul

  • Book Reviews

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2014
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Foreword by the Bailiff

  • Introduction

ROYAL GUERNSEY LIGHT INFANTRY

  • RGLI Mobilised by Keith Le Page

  • Battle of Cambrai by Keith Le PageThe Lainés of Les Bourgs by Jenifer Smyth

  • Battle of Cambrai Counter-Attack by Stephen FooteCaptain Robert Gee VC by Stephen Foote
    Major W H Foote by Stephen Foote

  • Battle of Passchendaele by Keith Le Page

  • Battle of the Lys – Le Doulieu by Keith Le PageThe Stranger Family by Stephen Foote

  • RGLI Battlefield Tour 2013 – a personal account by David Le Conte

  • RGLI Battlefield Tour 2015


OTHER GUERNSEYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR

  • The Guernsey Irish by Stephen FooteGrenade Training by Stephen Foote
    Gas Attack at Hulluch by Stephen Foote

  • “Banks of the 10th Essex” introduced by Stephen Foote

  • Henry Le Marchant Brock: Experiences of An Aviation Pioneer introduced by Stephen Foote

  • Cook, Novelist, Soldier, Spy: The WW1 Experience of Ralph Durand by Stephen Foote

  • Weir De Lancey Williams: A Guernseyman at Gallipoli introduced by Niall Edworthy

  • Maurice Rowley Banks RNAS by Melanie Dodd

  • Pier 21 by Michael Paul

  • Book Review: A Guernseyman goes to War by Liz Walton by Keith Le Page

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • ‘A Short History of Guernsey’ - a special offer for members

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2014
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Blue Plaque Campaign: Sir Donald Banks

  • On the Trail of my Huguenot Ancestors by Stephen Foote

  • The Cockleshell Story by Jonty Sherwill

  • Catholic Priests exiled in Guernsey by Sam Clapp

  • ‘A Short History of Guernsey’ – a special offer for members

  • Book Reviews:A selection of books by Gregory Stevens-Cox
    Guernsey Place Names by Hugh Lenfestey

  • A Guernsey Charity by Peter Keeling

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2014
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Winter Storms

  • The Blanchelande Donkey revisited by Darryl Ogier

  • The Forgotten Army by E.C. Hampton

  • La Descente des Aragousais by Philip Green

  • Elizabeth College in 1829 contributed by David Godfrey

  • Victor Hugo & Guernsey by Thierry Le Levier

  • Folklore and History by Philip Green

  • Book Reviews:Guernsey’s Occupation Ambulance Service by Gary Blanchford
    Island of Sunshine and Shadow by Bernard Blestel

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2013
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • How my research into the evacuation of Guernsey changed my life by Gillian Mawson

  • Diary of a visit to Guernsey in 1866 edited by Susan Ilie

  • The Society at 70 – Three Years of Occupation

  • Book Review: Finding Mother by Anne Allen

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2013
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Subscriptions

  • Occupation Words – Winning Entries

  • My Film Career by Francis Paul

  • St Samson and the Breton influence by Dr Darryl Ogier

  • The Society at 70 – Profiles of the founders of our Society by Stephen Foote

  • Book Review: A Guernsey Double: The Man Who Landed / The Boy Who Fell Upwards by Richard Fleming & Peter Kenny

  • Book Review: German Tunnels in Guernsey, Alderney & Sark by Festung Guernsey

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2013
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Changes to the Constitution

  • Society Badges

  • Subscriptions

  • Some Vale Stones and Norman Names by Dr Darryl Ogier

  • The Society at 70 – Formation of the Guernsey Society in 1943 by Stephen Foote

  • Guernsey Sketchbook by Valerie Baines

  • A Scholar’s Diary – 1949 by Michael Paul

  • Brief Tales of the Occupation by Dorothy Dowding

  • World War I RGLI Battlefield Tour

  • Obituary: The Very Reverend Victor Collas

  • Book Review: The Church in Guernsey 1000AD – 1500AD by Gregory Stevens-Cox

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2012
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • WWI RGLI Battlefield Tour

  • Barry Jones and the Society’s Missing Archives by Stephen Foote

  • The Society at 70 – “Sand and Granite” (1942) by Sir Donald Banks

  • Brock Bicentenary

  • Rachel Dobrée (1763-1814), a Guernsey belle by Peter Bell

  • Occupation Words, a Bailiwick Schools Writing Competition by Philip Green

  • A Wedding in 18th Century Alderney by Martha Le Mesurier

  • Sarnia – or not by Michael Paul

  • The Dark Ages by John McCormack

  • A Review of the Review, Part 5 by Stephen Foote

  • Book Review: Guernsey Evacuees by Gillian Mawson

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2012
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Note from the Secretary by Philip Green

  • Our New Logo by Stephen Foote

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Major General Sir Isaac Brock by Oliver Brock

  • Reminiscences of Great Hucklow by Owen Le Tissier

  • Annual Boules Muratti – June 2012

  • Leopards or Lions? by Philip Green

  • Book Review: Louise of Sarnia by Wallis Peel

  • Book Review: Channel Island Clockmakers 1680-1830 by John Vost

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2012
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • General John Hankey Bainbrigge of Rohais Manor by Peter Bell

  • Ava atque Vale

  • A Review of the Review, Part 4 by Stephen Foote

  • Captain Jean Le Breton by Peter Johnston

  • Diary of a Voyage (1828) by William Proctor (edited by Michael Rose)

  • The Godfrey Beacon by David Godfrey

  • Book Review: A History of Elizabeth College, Guernsey by Bruce Parker

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2011
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • William Bell of Leith by Peter Bell

  • Nerines, Part 2 by Andrew Lanoe

  • On the Guernsey Buses by Thierry Le Levier

  • Angels in Guernsey: Guernsey Ancestry Case Study by Susan Ilie

  • Albecq Rock by Georges Métivier

  • Book Reviews:Life in Occupied Guernsey, the Diaries of Ruth Ozanne edited by William Parker
    Tracing your Channel Islands Ancestors by Marie-Louise Backhurst
    Guernsey Past and Present by Brian and Patricia Shipman

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2011
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • The Guernsey Falcon by David Le Conte

  • Nerinesby Andrew Lanoe

  • Specsavers

  • Memories by Dorothy Dowding

  • Book Reviews:Wild Flowes of Sark by Susan Synnott
    Guernsey Sketchbook by Valerie Baines
    Outpost of Occupation by Barry Turner
    The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
    The Collaborator by Margaret Leroy
    Vivienne on Guernsey Blue by Yvonne Ozanne
    The Maids of La Rochelle by Elinor Brent-Dyer

  • Boules Muratti

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2011
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • The Very Reverend Thomas Bell by Peter Bell MA

  • Guernsey June 1940 by Margaret Rudd (née Fuzzey)

  • Guernsey’s Wartime Railways by John Bennett

  • Battle of Queenstown Heights Bicentennial

  • John Le Tocq – Champion Bicyclist by Margaret Boden-Heaume

  • The Centenary of Scouting in Guernsey (Part 7) by Eric Grimsley

  • A Review of the Review (Part 3) by Stephen Foote

  • Guernsey Literary Festival – May 2011

  • Book Reviews:Moving Forward, The History of Scouting in Guernsey 1908-1996 by Eric Grimsley
    Guernsey’s Coast by Rob Batiste

  • ‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ footnote

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Winter 2010
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Commemorating the 1940 Evacuation by Joan Ozanne

  • The Best Job in the World by Capt Peter Gill

  • Town Church Memorials, Part 2 by Gillian Lenfestey

  • NCCPG Camellia Plant Group

  • A Review of the Review, Part 2 by Stephen Foote

  • ‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ (Part 6) by Clément Louis Houédard

  • Book Reviews:Guernsey’s Countryside by Richard Hocart
    Islanders Adventures in Sark by M J Vermeulen

  • Subscriptions

  • Correspondence: Raymond Cyril Le Tissier

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Summer 2010
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Town Church Memorials by Gilian Lenfestey

  • History in Stone by Michael Paul

  • A Review of the Review by Stephen Foote

  • ‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ (Part 5) by Clément Louis Houédard

  • Book Reviews:Castel Parish: Past and Present by Dave Wyllie
    Torteval School in Exile by Nick Le Poidevin

  • Island News

Winter 2009
Spring 2010
  • Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page

  • Editorial by Michael Paul

  • Membership & Forthcoming Meetings

  • Brothers Emigrate to America – 1836 by Charles Ozanne

  • Memorial to Heroism

  • Launch of Donkipedia by Stephen Foote

  • The Garrison Cemetery at Fort George by Michael Paul

  • A Visit to Channel Islands Air Search

  • ‘Per Ardua ad Astra’ (Part 4) by Clément Louis Houédard

  • The Story of Mrs Fuzzey and our Ration Books by Mary Le Mesurier-Foster

  • Travel in the ’30s by Joan Ozanne

  • Book Reviews:Bloney Good Times by Sally Guilmoto, Margie Pearson, Jill Machon and Kay Parnwell
    Guernsey Merchants and their World by Gregory Stevens-Cox

  • Island News

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