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This book traces the evolving balance of French and English influence on criminal justice in Guernsey. It maps key legal and judicial changes, illustrates them with case studies and relates…
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Rose-Marie Crossan
Based on diaries kept by Guernseyman Charles Mollet between 1771 and 1818, this book interprets and contextualises Mollet's own record of his domestic, social and farming activities, his travels and…
First scholarly study devoted to Guernsey in the nineteenth century, as it changed from a francophone to an anglophone society.
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An account of poor relief in Guernsey from the Reformation to the twenty-first century, incorporating a detailed case-study of the St Peter Port workhouse and an outline of the development…
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This book examines the condition of women in Guernsey between the 1850s and 1950s. Topics covered include education, work, health, marriage, sexual violence, prostitution, and the suffrage. The book features…
This book examines the evolving nature of criminal justice in Guernsey, with particular focus on the balance of English as against French influences. Charting landmark changes in law, procedure and…
This selection of entries from the six-volume journal of Guernsey farmer and merchant Charles Mollet (1742-1819) illustrates the minutiae of everyday life in Georgian Guernsey and reflects many of the…
