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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 2019
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Stephen Foote
Society NoticesMembership
Forthcoming Meetings
Visit to Greenwich
Blue Plaque updateGuernsey’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 CoxIsland News by Michael Paul

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 EditorA 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 ChristopherIsland News by Michael Paul

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 PerrotThe 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, GuernseyCousins 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 SmithIsland News by Michael Paul

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 Ozanne50 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

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 2018Cultivating 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 FallaIsland News by Michael Paul

Spring 2018
Letter from the Chairman by Keith Le Page
Editorial by Stephen Foote
Society NoticesMembership
Future Meetings
Guernsey Under German RuleEisteddfod 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 LemmonIsland News by Michael Paul

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 PoetrySarnia 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 CoxIsland News by Michael Paul

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 FestivalSebastian 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 BellosIsland News by Michael Paul

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 TourThe 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 BatisteIsland News by Michael Paul

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

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 CrossanIsland News

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 WilmotIsland News

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 GrahamIsland News

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

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 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 FooteBattle 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

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 LenfesteyA Guernsey Charity by Peter Keeling
Island News

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 BlestelIsland News

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 ShipmanIsland News

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-DyerBoules Muratti
Island News

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 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 VermeulenSubscriptions
Correspondence: Raymond Cyril Le Tissier
Island News

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 PoidevinIsland News

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-CoxIsland News