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Latest additions to the Library catalogue: April 2026

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Books

  • Carr, Gilly, A Materiality of internment. Routledge, 2025.
  • Ogier, Darryl, The Government and Law of Guernsey, third edition. The Guernsey Bar, 2025.
  • Delalande, Arnaud, Contes de Normandie. Grasset, 2025.
  • Needham, Stuart, et al., The Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Jersey. Archaeopress Publishing, 2025.
  • Sheridan, Alison, et al., The Neolithic in Jersey. Archaeopress Publishing, 2025.
  • Watkins, Simon, The Good Doctor. Seeker Publishing, 2025.
  • Bostridge, Mark, In pursuit of love: the search for Victor Hugo’s daughter. Bloomsbury, 2024.
  • Harmer, Stephen, La Chaire: the story of Jersey’s lost garden. Seaflower Books, 2014.
  • Le Marchand, Sarah, Hold fast (fiction). The Book Guild, 2025.
  • Daniel, Glyn, The Prehistoric chamber tombs of France. Thames & Hudson, 1960.
  • Daniel, Glyn, Megaliths in history. Thames & Hudson, 1972.
  • Crespo, Martí, Esclavos de Hitler : Republicanos en los campos nazis del Canal de la Mancha. Editorial UOC, 2014.
  • Stephen, Ann and A. D. S. Donaldson, J. W. Power: an Australian avant-gardist. National Library of Australia, 2025.
  • Gibson, Oliver, Health, environment and the institutional care of children in late Victorian London [Thesis. University of London, 2016].

Articles

  • Jones, Mari C., You say ‘huiptante’ and I say ‘quatre-vîngts’: investigating linguistic variation in Jèrriais. French Studies, vol. LXXVIII No. 3, 2024.
  • Jones, Mari C., Does language loss follow a principled structural path? Evidence from Jersey Norman French. Journal of French Language Studies. no. 28, 2018.
  • Jones, Mari C., Liaison patterns and usage in Jersey Norman French. Probus, vol. 24 No. 2, 2012.
  • Jones, Mari C., Swimming against the tide: Language planning on Jersey. Language Problems and Language Planning, vol. 24 No. 2, 2000.
  • Jones, Mari C., A pat- on the back? “invisible” borrowing in Guernésiais. Journal of French Language Studies, no. 35, 2025.
  • Jones, Mari C., The Rolling snowball: lone English-origin lexical items in Guernésiais. Journal of French Language Studies, no. 34, 2024.
  • Jones, Mari C., Auregnais: insular Norman’s invisible relative. Transactions of the Philological Society, vol. 113, no. 3, 2015.
  • Jones, Mari C., Variation and change in Sark Norman French. Transactions of the Philological Society, vol. 110, no. 2, 2012.
  • Le Bihan, Joseph, Notes sur les migrations saisonnières de travail en provenance de Bretagne. Économie rurale, vol. 57, 1963.
  • King, Agnès, Jersey, centre d’espionnage au début de la période révolutionnaire. Revue d’histoire moderne, vol. 9, no. 15, 1934.
  • Garrow, Duncan , Mesolithic-neolithic transition in the Channel Islands: maritime and terrestrial perspectives. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 1, 2017.
  • Mills, R. J. W., ‘L’île des bannis’: Jersey, Britain and the French emigration 1789-1815. European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’histoire, vol. 28, no. 1, 2020.
  • Kelleher, Alexander, King’s other islands of the sea: the Channel Islands in the Plantagenet realm 1254-1341. History, 2022.
  • Conneller, Chantal, Rethinking human responses to sea-level rise: the mesolithic occupation of the Channel Islands. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 82, March 2016.
  • Hill, Rory, Making bourdélots and tasting terroir. Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, no. 9, February 2026.

Periodicals

  • Revue de l’Avranchin et du Pays de Granville, tome 102, année 2025, fasc. 485 (déc.).
  • Medieval Archaeology, volume 69/2, 2025.
  • Durham archaeological journal, Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 24, 2025.
  • Channel Islands family history society journal, volume XII, number 189, January 2026.
  • The Antiquaries journal: being the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, volume 105, 2025.
  • Vernacular Architecture, volume 56, 2025.
  • Souvenir Huguenot, Société d’Histoire du Protestantisme en Normandie, bulletin 78, automne 2025.
  • RAO, Revue archéologique de l’Ouest, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024, no 40.
  • Genealogists’ Magazine, volume 35, number 5, March 2026.
  • The Archaeological Journal, volume 182 for 2025.
  • Antiquity: a quarterly review of world archaeology, volume 100, number 409, February 2026.
  • Vernacular Architecture Group Newsletter, number 90, March 2026.
  • The Review of the Guernsey Society, vol. LXXXI, no 2, Winter 2025.
  • Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, (2024-2025), volume LXX, part 4.
  • Revue de la Manche, Société d’archéologie et d’histoire du département de la Manche, tome 68, fascicule 271, janvier-février-mars 2026.
  • Bulletin et mémoires de la Société polymathique du Morbihan, tome 151, 2025.
  • Current World Archaeology magazine, issue 136, April-May 2026, volume 12, no. 4.
  • Lé Gris ventre: lé magâsîn dé St Ouën, issue no 110, March 2026.

Archives

  • Bailiwick of Guernsey stamps: the complete collection, Guernsey Post, from 1984 to 2019.
  • 27 Pinel family trees.
  • Several maps.
  • Collection of 300 Jersey postcards from the early 20th century.
  • Collection of postcards on Channel Islands maritime history.
  • Several copies of plans of St Helier’s Harbour, 1872. Original plans held by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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