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The Stockport and District Society was founded in January 1941, when 250 prospective members attended the first meeting. They decided to publish the Channel Island Monthly Review, despite a ban on new periodicals in August 1940 because of paper shortages. The first edition, a four-page sheet, appeared in May 1941.
The Society has published a regular magazine since 1945. The Bulletin appeared eight times during 1945 and 1946. It became Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society in January 1947, and continued until 1971, when the frequency was reduced to three times a year, and the title changed to The Review of the Guernsey Society.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), artist; spent summer of 1883 in Guernsey; Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903; Lilian Lyle (1867–1953), botanist and phycologist, studied the marine life of Guernsey during the 1920s [34] Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), lexicographer, moved to Guernsey in 1903
Guernsey Society, members of "The Guernsey Farmhouse" (De La Rue for the Guernsey Society, 1963) Guillemette, Louis - The People's Messenger: the Occupation Diaries of Louis Guillemette, Guernsey 1940-45 (Blue Ormer, 2022) ISBN 9781999341565; Gurney, David - "Postal History of the Guernsey Sub-Post Offices"
German soldiers in Jersey. During the five-year German occupation of the Channel Islands (30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945) civilian life became much more difficult. During that time, the Channel Islanders had to live under and obey the laws of Nazi Germany and work with their occupiers in order to survive and reduce the impact of occupation.
Chief Minister of Guernsey; Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities; Civilian life under the German occupation of the Channel Islands; Clameur de haro; Coat of arms of Guernsey; Condor Ferries; Connétable (Jersey and Guernsey) Courts of Guernsey; COVID-19 pandemic in Guernsey; Crevichon; Crown dependencies; Culture of Guernsey
Founded in 1961, by Richard Heaume, M.B.E.,in Guernsey, the society still researches all aspects of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It has an archive of historical documents, and also renovated the former German naval Signals H.Q, which was responsible for all messages to the islands from France and then Germany after D Day.
The Channel Islands Occupation Society [100] [101] was formed in order to study and preserve the history of this period. Castle Cornet was presented to the people of Guernsey in 1947 by the Crown as a token of their loyalty during two world wars.