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Guernsey and the Great War

How Guernsey people were involved in the 1914-18 War

This copiously illustrated booklet was published to coincide with the museum's Cambrai 1917 exhibition, commemorating the 90th anniversary of a battle where so many Guernseymen fell. This book offers a very readable historic summary of the war and looks at its particular impact on Guernsey.

Text by David Mosley, edited by Lynne Ashton : 2007 : 48 pages, fully illustrated (b/w)

ISBN 9 781871 560091
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Frederick Corbin Lukis and his Family

A celebration of the life and work of a remarkable Victorian polymath and his family.

Text by Heather Sebire, research, design and production by Guernsey Museum staff : 2006 : 33 pages, fully illustrated (colour and monochrome)

ISBN 1-871560-07-1

 

Out of Nelson's Shadow

The parallel careers of the English hero Horatio Nelson and James Saumarez of Guernsey.

Text by David Mosley, research, design and production by Guernsey Museum staff, artwork by Brian Byron : 2005 : 33 pages, fully illustrated (colour)

ISBN 1-871560-05-5
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The Wreck of the Stella
Titanic of the Channel Islands

by John Ovenden & David Shayer : 1999 : 112 pages, fully illustrated (colour and monochrome)

ISBN 1 871560 50 0

 

Maritime Guernsey

Text by Sally Rousham, from research by Guernsey Museums' staff : 1992 : 49 pages, fully illustrated (colour and monochrome)

ISBN 1 871560 45 4
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Les Fouaillages and the
Megalithic Monuments of Guernsey

Text by Dr Ian Kinnes & J.A.Grant : 1983 : 64 pages, fully illustrated (monochrome photographs and line drawings)

ISBN 0 946346 01 1

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The Greatest Treasure

The epic story of the circumnavigation by HMS Centurion, 1740-44, told largely in the words of the Guernseyman Lieutenant Philip Saumarez

Edited by Sally Rousham : 1994 : 46 pages, illustrated with contemporary prints

ISBN 1 871560 86 1
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An Artist on the March

Paintings of India, Abyssinia & Kashmir by Colonel Cornelius Francis James, Prince of Wales' Own Bombay Grenadiers 1838-1889

Text by Tony Carey  : 1989 : 48 pages, many colour illustrations

ISBN 1 871560 82 9

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