A Selection of items recently added to the Library’s catalogue, December 2024

Books

• Thornton, Tim, The Royal Charters of Jersey, 1341-1687. Boydell Press, 2024.
• Green, Judith A., The Normans: power, conquest and culture in 11th-Century Europe. Yale University Press, 2022.
• Le Brocq, Philip, No time: the remarkable story of a Jersey schoolboy evacuee who joined the RAF at the age of 15 and became a bomber pilot in the Second World War. Seeker Publishing, 2024.
• Boas, Simon, A Beginner’s guide to dying. Swift Press, 2024.
• Crossan, Rose-Marie, Charles Mollet and his world: daily life in Georgian Guernsey. Mòr Media Limited, 2024.
• Crossan, Rose-Marie, The Journal of Charles Mollet (1742-1819): a selection. Mòr Media Limited, 2024.
• Aumont, Michel, Les Corsaires de Granville : une culture du risque maritime (1688-1815). Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.

Thesis

• Blampied, Samantha Robyn, A Socio-economic and ecological approach to informing sustainable marine management in Jersey, Channel Islands [Thesis. University of Plymouth, 2022].
• Jackson, Emma Louise, Importance of seagrass beds as a habitat for fishery species around Jersey [Thesis for PHD, University of Plymouth, 2003].
• Kaci, Tassadit, Tectonique du Nord-Ouest Cotentin par approche Terre-Mer et implications sismo-tectoniques [Thesis, Normandie Université, 2023].
• Audouard, Loréna, Les Économies préhistoriques dans les domaines insulaires de la façade Manche / Atlantique de la France, de la fin du Mésolithique au début de l’âge du Bronze [Thesis, Université de Rennes, 2014].

Articles

• Brasseur, Patrick, Attitudes linguistiques des normannophones dans les îles Anglo-Normandes. La Bretagne Linguistique, 5, 1989.
• Jones, Mari C., Rolling snowball: lone English-origin lexical items in Guernésiais. Journal of French Language Studies, 2023.
• Shaw, Andrew, et al., The Archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. Antiquity, volume 90, issue 354, 2016.
• Scott, Beccy, et al., A New view from La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. Antiquity, volume 88, issue 339, 2014.
• Pope, Matt, et al., Discoveries from La Manche: five years of Early Prehistoric research in the Channel Island of Jersey. Archaeology International, no. 18, 2015.
• Gehres, Benjamin, Archaeometric analysis of ceramic production and exchange from the Neolithic to the Gallo-Roman period in Brittany, France. Antiquity, volume 91, issue 356, 2017.
• Le Roux, C.-T., A Stone axe-factory in Brittany. Antiquity, volume 145, issue 180, 1971.
• Garrow, Duncan, et al., Stepping stones to the Neolithic? Radiocarbon dating the early Neolithic on Islands within the “Western Seaways” of Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, 2017.
• Hingley, Richard, Contextualising counterfeits: Roman coin moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands. Britannia, 54, 2023.
• Materiality, technology, and constructing social knowledge through bodily representation: a view from Prehistoric Guernsey, Channel Islands. European Journal of Archaeology, volume 17, issue 2, 2014.
• Linnemann, Ulf, et al., An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) – sedimentology, geochronology and provenance. Geological Magazine, volume 159, issue 7, 2022.
• Went, David J., Lower Cambrian facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy, NW France: framework for evaluation of basin-wide processes of sedimentation. Geological Magazine, volume 158, issue 3, 2021.
• Shaw, Caroline, Success in a failed campaign: the French refugees of Jersey and the making of an abstract “Right to Refuge”. Journal of British Studies, volume 57, 2018.
• Thornton, Tim, Lordship and Sovereignty in the Territories of the English Crown: sub-kingship and its implications, 1300-1600. Journal of British Studies, volume 60, 2021.
• Thornton, Tim, Jersey’s royal charters of liberties. Jersey and Guernsey Law Review, 2009.
• Thornton, Tim, Jersey, Guernsey and English Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction under Henry VII. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2024.
• Royal Policy and local initiative in challenges to autonomy under James VI and I: Church and State in Jersey and Guernsey. The Seventeenth Century, volume 36, issue 6, 2021.
• Thornton, Tim, The Role of the Channel Islands in the development and application of Norman law during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. The Jersey and Guernsey Law Review, 2018.
• Sturdy Colls, Caroline, et al., Tormented Alderney: archaeological investigation of the Nazi labour and concentration camp of Sylt. Antiquity, volume 94, issue 374, 2020.
• Morieux, Renaud. « Mare pacificum : les îles de la Manche, entre trêves de Dieu et pratiques de neutralisation (XVe-XIXe siècle) ». Les Ressources des faibles, edited by Jean-François Chanet and Christian Windler, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.
• Pitou, Frédérique, Les Mémoires de Fleury, du prêtre zélé au réfractaire puis au fanatique. La foi dans le siècle, edited by Stéphane Tison et al., Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.
• Poirey, Sophie, Réflexions sur le droit de propriété dans les bailliages de Jersey et Guernsey. Cahiers de la recherche sur les droits fondamentaux, volume 20, 2022.
• Gossez, Rémi, La Proscription et les origines de l’Internationale. Le “Comité international permanent”. Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, volume 22, 2001.

Periodicals

• Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine, volume 117, 2024.
• Antiquity: a review of world archaeology, volume 98, number 400, August 2024.
• Antiquity: a review of world archaeology, volume 98, number 401, October 2024.
• Channel Islands family history journal, volume XII, number 184, October 2024.
• Flash: the Trinity House journal, issue 41, Autumn 2024.
• Alderney Society Bulletin, volume LVIII, 2023-2024.
• Annales de Normandie, 74e année, no 1, janvier-juin 2024
• Genealogists’ magazine: journal of the Society of Genealogists. Volume 34, number 11, September 2024.
• Le souvenir Huguenot. Société d’Histoire du Protestantisme en Normandie, Bulletin no 76, Octobre 2024.
• Journées du ” CReAAH ” : Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire, Rennes, 5 Octobre 2024. Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire.
• Revue archéologique de l’Ouest. Association pour la Diffusion des Recherches archéologiques dans l’ouest de la France, no 39, 2023.

Two beautiful examples of early 17th century contracts