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- December 1972
- November 1972
- October 1972
- September 1972
- August 1972
- July 1972
- June 1972
- May 1972
- April 1972
- March 1972
- February 1972
- January 1972
- “Let em starve,” said Churchill
- “Overdose” verdict in Guernsey farmer’s death inquiry
- “Twink” goes missing on its way to Guernsey
- 6th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment fought at the Somme
- A boy scout fell 250ft over a Torteval Cliff
- A French fisherman is arrested and escorted to St Peter Port
- A Guernsey funeral takes place in Cornwall
- A Guernsey man posted himself to Sark
- A Guernsey planning dispute headed to Europe
- A Guernsey recruit regretted signing up
- A Guernsey retiree’s £1m offer attracts 57,000 requests
- A Guernseyman cycled to Herm
- A hospital worker stood accused of murder
- A hotel porter goes on trial for murder
- A Lancaster bomber crashed on Sark
- A liberation celebration ended in disaster
- A mainland murder with a Guernsey connection
- A man “disappeared” from a Guernsey ferry
- A minister was found dead at Icart Point
- A plane crashed on Crevichon
- A plane hit a car while landing at Guernsey Airport
- A royal visit… of sorts
- A tomato ship and a tanker collided
- A Trislander ate itself between Jersey and Guernsey
- A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher
- Abreuvoir
- Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin died
- Air UK Fokker overshoots Guernsey runway
- Albert Lamy appointed Guernsey Police Chief Officer
- Alderney
- Alderney arrest sparks a “riot”
- Alderney debated in the House of Commons
- Alderney elects its first president
- Alderney experienced a total eclipse of the sun
- Alderney gets its first full-time radio station
- Alderney is occupied by German forces
- Alderney residents lined the coast to watch Titanic pass
- Alderney to Guernsey radio connection established
- Alderney was liberated at the end of the second world war
- Alderney’s evacuees return to their island
- An Islander aircraft crashed in Guernsey
- An occupation-era minefield is discovered at L’Ancresse
- Antiquarian William Collings Lukis was born
- Archaeologist Crystal Bennet was born
- Archaeologists found a porpoise grave
- Asterix is discovered in St Peter Port harbour
- Aurigny Air Services
- Aurigny Air Services founded
- Aurigny founder Derrick Bailey died
- Aurigny pilot Ray Bowyer spots a UFO near Alderney
- Author Mary Ann Shaffer is born
- Bailiff John Guille died in Plymouth
- Bailiff Sir Peter de Havilland was born
- Bailiwick
- Battery Mirus was test fired for the first time
- BBC made its first ever Channel Islands broadcast
- BBC Radio Guernsey takes to the air
- Beau Sejour opens for business
- Beaucette Marina
- Benefactor Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx dies
- Bichard, Marlise
- Bichard, Miles
- Birth of Baron James de Saumarez
- Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard
- Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann
- Birth of Sark-based writer Mervyn Peake
- Birth of Stone de Croze, the original Guernseyman
- Blue Islands takes to the skies
- Bluebell woods
- Books set in Guernsey
- Braye du Valle was gifted by the crown
- Brecqhou
- Brecqhou was put up for sale
- British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation
- Brouard, Ella
- Budzinski, Marie
- Building work starts on Guernsey Airport
- Can you name these eight Guernsey landmarks?
- Car plane air crash caused airport fireball
- Carey, Odette
- Carey, Ollie (Oliver)
- Carey, Remus
- Carlisle, Freya
- Castle Breakwater
- Castle Breakwater
- Castle Cornet
- Castle Cornet is struck by lightning
- Castle Cornet surrenders to Guernsey
- Channel 4 broadcasts Sark-based Mr Pye
- Channel 4 gameshow Treasure Hunt comes to Guernsey
- Channel Express Airways plane crashes on Guernsey
- Channel Islands
- Channel Islands crossword
- Channel Islands Securities Exchange founded
- Channel Islands’ word search
- Channel Television disappears
- Channel Television saw off a rival broadcaster
- Channel Television took to the air
- Charlie Chaplin played in St Peter Port
- Check out the Sarnian video
- Check out this picture of Fort George under construction
- Chouet
- Clameur de Haro
- Clarence Battery
- Clarke
- Condor Liberation enters service
- Coronavirus returns to Guernsey
- Crevichon
- Cricketer Charles Grieve died in Shropshire
- Dad’s Army actor John le Mesurier died
- Dalliance
- Dame Sibyl became a dame again
- Dame Sibyl Hathaway chose her Desert Island Discs
- Dead man appointed to run Guernsey Airport
- Death of Guernsey-born footballer Len Duquemin
- Death of occupation resister Marie Ozanne
- Death of Sir Charles Hayward
- Death of the Vicar General of the Channel Islands
- Death of Thomas Fiott de Havilland
- Debut of Guernsey-set comedy This is Jinsy
- Digard, Cecil
- Dixon, George
- Doctor Who travels to Guernsey
- Downloads
- Dubois, Charlie
- Dutroux, Bob
- Earl Grey was appointed Governor of Guernsey
- Easter weekend Guernsey quiz
- Ebenezer Le Page author GB Edwards dies
- Elizabeth College is founded in St Peter Port
- Elizabeth College’s foundation stone was laid
- Enemy at the Door comes to the end of its run
- Erne, Alfie
- Explorer Edmund Kennedy is speared to death
- Express & Star bought Guernsey Press
- Fairy Ring
- Falla
- Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born
- Ferbrache, Ross
- Fermain Bay
- Films set on Guernsey
- Final issue of Deutsche Guernsey-Zeitung was published
- First arrests were made at Guernsey Airport
- First Commando raid of the Second World War
- First ever broadcast of Puffin’s Pla(i)ce
- First Guernsey competitor took part in Miss World
- First meeting of Guernsey’s Controlling Committee
- First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea
- Footballer Matt Le Tissier was born
- Former bailiff Daniel de Lisle Brock died
- Fort George
- Fort Grey
- Fort Hommet
- Foxton, Dawn
- Free Guernsey computer wallpaper
- French fishing boats prepare to invade
- G-COBO has a bumpy flight
- G-JOEY completes his last flight
- Gache Melee
- Game of Thrones actor Roy Dotrice was born
- German forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios
- Guernesiais
- Guernesiais linguist Marie de Garis died
- Guernsey
- Guernsey abolishes the death penalty for murder
- Guernsey adopts Sterling currency
- Guernsey aimed for equal adoption rights
- Guernsey Airport
- Guernsey Airport opened for business
- Guernsey Airport’s new terminal opened for business
- Guernsey and France tackle the Amoco Cadiz oil spill
- Guernsey and Jersey considered merging
- Guernsey and Jersey newspapers agree to merge
- Guernsey bans smoking in public places
- Guernsey beaches and general knowledge crossword
- Guernsey bigamist got married for the second time
- Guernsey bought Fort Grey from the War Office
- Guernsey bought Herm from the mainland
- Guernsey by drone
- Guernsey celebrated Queen Victoria’s jubilee
- Guernsey chose England over France
- Guernsey clears up after heaviest snow in years
- Guernsey coffee trader William Le Lacheur died
- Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died
- Guernsey Controlling Committee’s Sir John Leale died
- Guernsey court escapee was caught again
- Guernsey declared a State of Emergency
- Guernsey deportee, nurse Gladys Skillett was born
- Guernsey emergency services prepare for a disaster
- Guernsey exchange student goes missing in Virginia
- Guernsey Fisher makes its maiden voyage
- Guernsey flag
- Guernsey Gache
- Guernsey general knowledge crossword
- Guernsey gets its first postbox
- Guernsey gets its own flag
- Guernsey guidebook pioneer Henry Inglis dies
- Guernsey heads call for an end to the Eleven-plus
- Guernsey held its first full marathon
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- Guernsey holidaymakers head home itching
- Guernsey hosted the Island Games 2003 closing ceremony
- Guernsey hosted the second Island Games
- Guernsey hosts its first Parkrun at Pembroke
- Guernsey issues banknotes featuring famous locals
- Guernsey joined the Football Association
- Guernsey Ladies’ College opened
- Guernsey Language Commission formed
- Guernsey lifeboat performs a chemical tanker rescue
- Guernsey lifeboat saved a Swedish schooner
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie film opened
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was published
- Guernsey Monopoly board game went on sale
- Guernsey Mormon Sampson Avard dies in Illinois
- Guernsey number plate sold for £240,000
- Guernsey nurse Elizabeth Lincoln elected to the States
- Guernsey nurses go on hunger strike
- Guernsey opens its wartime files
- Guernsey optician Specsavers was founded
- Guernsey passengers are battered by storms
- Guernsey passengers stage a ferry sit-in
- Guernsey players set darts record
- Guernsey plays Tottenham Hotspur
- Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born
- Guernsey poet George Métivier is born
- Guernsey Police makes the world’s first underwater arrest
- Guernsey Police moves to its new headquarters
- Guernsey Police Service appoints its first inspector
- Guernsey Post Office is established
- Guernsey Post Office was established
- Guernsey Press registers its domain
- Guernsey quiz 2
- Guernsey Railway company ceased operations
- Guernsey Railway Company runs its first services
- Guernsey recruits caused concern in Parliament
- Guernsey shipwreck results in starvation
- Guernsey Society celebrates its 70th anniversary
- Guernsey steam tramway is granted its concession
- Guernsey Steam Tramway stops running
- Guernsey steamship SS Rossgull is wrecked
- Guernsey struck by an earthquake
- Guernsey suffered its first and only air raid
- Guernsey suffers its worst storm in 35 years
- Guernsey switched to Reichsmarks
- Guernsey to Jersey plane crashed into the sea
- Guernsey to UK telephone connection inaugurated
- Guernsey voted to legalise local abortions
- Guernsey votes for equal age of consent
- Guernsey was declared free of cholera
- Guernsey was invaded by Colorado beetles
- Guernsey was liberated from German occupation
- Guernsey was struck by a hurricane
- Guernsey watchmaker helps Stone of Scone manhunt
- Guernsey welcomed its first steam ship
- Guernsey wins gold at the Commonwealth Games
- Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety
- Guernsey won double-silver at the Commonwealth Games
- Guernsey Yacht Club was founded
- Guernsey Zoo is sold as a going concern
- Guernsey-built prototype plane crashes
- Guernsey-set film The Sea Devils hits cinemas
- Guernsey’s entire police force is arrested
- Guernsey’s first banker dies
- Guernsey’s first female murderer goes on trial
- Guernsey’s first governor, Edmund Weston, is appointed
- Guernsey’s first Methodist minister arrives
- Guernsey’s first paid constables were hired
- Guernsey’s island-wide police force is established
- Guernsey’s last duel
- Guernsey’s last execution didn’t go according to plan
- Guernsey’s last witch trial takes place
- Guernsey’s new population law comes into force
- Guernsey’s oldest resident dies, aged 110
- Guernsey’s Reform Law was enacted
- Guernsey’s Royal Court sits for the first time
- Guernsey’s school children were evacuated
- Guernsey’s stone crackers demanded a pay rise
- Guernsey’s telephone wars broke out
- Guernseyman Edward Tupper killed by cannibals
- Guernseyman Herbert Le Patourel wrongly thought killed
- Guillaume de Beauvoir appointed dean of English Church in Geneva
- Guille and Alles lease the Assembly Rooms
- Guille and Alles open their library
- Guille, Tony
- GUNS founder Charles Machon died
- GUNS writer Joseph John Gillingham was deported
- Hanois Lighthouse is cut off by the weather
- Hanois Lighthouse’s foundation stone was laid
- Hauteville House is bequeathed to the City of Paris
- Havelet Bay
- HD Ferries makes its last crossing
- Head of Guernsey CID is shot in St Peter Port
- Henri
- Herm
- Herm bribery case comes to court
- Herm goes back on the market
- Herm tenant Major Peter Wood died
- Hitler ordered the Channel Islands’ fortification
- HMS Boreas sank at Hanois
- HMS Guernsey launched in Aberdeen
- Holdbrook, Rosalynd
- Hollett, Alton
- Hollett, Frank
- Hollett, Verity
- Holtzer, Friedmann
- Horse racing returns to L’Ancresse race course
- Horticultural painter William Caparne was born
- Hottentot Fig
- Howards’ Way came to Guernsey
- Huffin’ Puffin
- Human remains were found on Lihou
- Hydrofoil Condor 1 completed its final sea trials
- Ibbott, Richelle
- Icart Point
- Island FM brings commercial radio to Guernsey
- Isle of Guernsey delivered to its new owners
- ITV broadcasts first episode of Island at War
- Jaonnet Bay
- Jeeves actor died in Guernsey
- Jerbourg Point
- Jersey
- Jersey swimmers set a round-Guernsey record
- Jethou
- Jethou tenant was rescued from an up-turned boat
- Jethou was put on the market
- Jethou’s tenant fell off his own cliff
- John Doyle was appointed Lieutenant-Governor
- Jones, Ruby
- L’Ancresse
- La Vallette bathing pools
- Langlois, Simon
- Laura Kennington kicks off Channel Islands triathlon
- Le Moal, Daniel
- Le Page, Christine
- Le Page, Dan (Daniel)
- Les Hanois Lighthouse
- Lieutenant Governor, Lord Ruthven, died in Bath
- Lihou
- Little Russell
- Mahy
- Mail ship wrecked on Black Rock
- Major General Sir Isaac Brock died
- Major Guernsey employer Tektronix went public
- Malkulpa
- Mapmaking geologist John MacCulloch died
- Marble Bay
- Minchin, Gregg
- Missing girl, Jetta, was found on Guernsey
- Morse code
- Murder inquiry ends with suicide
- Murder suspects steal visitor’s boat from St Peter Port
- Murderer Peter Robin sentenced to death
- Murderer sentenced to death in three hours
- Murders in Guernsey
- MV Prosperity is wrecked at Perelle
- Naftel’s paintings go on display
- New coins are minted for Guernsey
- Norfolk pupils spend a week in Guernsey
- Occupation president Ambrose Sherwill died
- Occupation resister Winifred Green was deported
- Occupation stories occupy the mainland papers
- Occupying forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios
- Occupying forces mount a desperate raid on Granville
- Oil rig stranded at Grandes Rocques
- Oliver Reed in Guernsey
- Oliver Reed was jailed in Guernsey
- Operation Hardtack targets the Channel Islands
- Ormer
- Ozanne, Harry
- Ozanne, Tony
- Paget, Aurelie
- Patterson, Louisa
- Pembroke
- Pezeries
- Philip de Saumarez was discharged as a Jurat
- Pittard, Helen
- Planning the Sarnian
- Plans for St Sampson power station approved
- Pleinmont
- Point Law runs aground off Alderney
- Police found a bomb in Bluebell Wood
- Pollet guest house fire claimed its third victim
- Portelet Bay and Harbour
- President Garcia is re-floated in Saints Bay
- Priaulx Library opens for the first time
- Prince Charles and Camilla visit Guernsey
- Princess Elizabeth opened Guernsey’s hospital
- Puch, Janusz
- Queen Mary executed while wearing Guernsey stockings
- Queen Victoria visited Guernsey
- Quiz: can you unscramble 8 Guernsey place names?
- Racing yacht Westward is blown up off Guernsey
- Radiant Med sinks with loss of life
- Radio station Contact 94 went off the air
- Release of Reverend Harry Samuel
- Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint
- Renouf, Marc
- Renouf, Sophie
- Review: Life in Occupied Guernsey: the diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940 – 1945
- Roche, Matthieu
- Rocquaine Sudoku
- Role of Chief Minister of Guernsey abolished
- Rousse
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry fights at Ypres
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry memorial was unveiled
- Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens
- Royal theft inquiry heads to Guernsey
- Saints Bay and Saints Harbour
- Sampson
- Sark
- Sark featured in the music charts
- Sark holds its first election
- Sark is awarded Dark-Sky status
- Sark voted for democracy
- Sark was the target of Operation Basalt
- Sark women get the right to inherit
- Sark’s Stocks Hotel was damaged by fire
- Sark’s vineyards were vandalised
- Sarnia
- Sarnia Cherie
- Sarnia Theatre celebrated its most successful year
- Sarnian 2: Blowfish
- Schoolboys and teacher went missing off Sark
- Second World War bomb detonated
- Seigneur of Sark, Michael Beaumont, dies aged 88
- Ship sinks in St Sampson harbour
- Sibyl Beaumont married Robert Hathaway
- Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, is born
- Sir Charles Hayward buys Jethou for £91,000
- Sir Isaac Newton has his say on a mysterious Guernsey invention
- Sloane, Amy
- Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George
- Solution: Channel Islands crossword
- Solution: Channel Islands word search
- Solution: Easter weekend Guernsey quiz
- Solution: Guernsey beaches and general knowledge crossword
- Solution: Guernsey general knowledge crossword
- Solution: Guernsey quiz 2
- Solution: Rocquaine Sudoku
- Solution: White Rock Sudoku
- Songs of Praise comes from Guernsey
- Spanish flu arrived on Guernsey
- Specsavers’ Mary Perkins was born
- Spooner, Kira
- Spotlight was broadcast for the first time
- St Johns undertook its first Guernsey rescue
- St Martin’s parish church consecrated
- St Peter Port
- St Peter Port inundated with fish
- St Sampson
- St Sampson pensioner was buried in a landslide
- St Sampson was ordained a bishop
- St Sampson’s travels
- States of Guernsey hired its first independent vet
- States of Guernsey voted to lower the voting age
- States Telephone Department was established
- Stella
- Stunning drone footage of Herm
- Telex, phones and telegram cables go quiet
- The BBC broadcasts from Sark for the first time
- The Beatles played at Candie Gardens
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is published
- The Channel Islands were cut off from the outside world
- The Channel Islands were demilitarised
- The Channel Islands’ king set sail for England
- The court considered a Guernsey porn dealer’s testimony
- The desalination plant opened
- The Devil’s Rock had its opening night
- The Duke of Connaught visited Guernsey
- The first ever Guernsey stamp is issued
- The first lighthouses were built on the Casquets
- The first mines were dug on Sark
- The first Muratti football match takes place
- The Fleet
- The Guernsey Martyrs were burned at the stake
- The Guernsey Quiz Book
- The Guernsey Tapestry is completed
- The Guet
- The Imperial Hotel opened for the first time
- The king and queen celebrated Guernsey’s liberation
- The last issue of GUNS was distributed
- The Little Theatre was reprieved… for a while
- The melon king died… long live the melon king
- The Nurse
- The original Torteval church was consecrated
- The papers were excited by a Guernsey execution
- The post-Occupation military government was disbanded
- The RAF bombed Guernsey Airport
- The Red Cross saves Guernsey from starvation
- The Rolling Stones played St Peter Port
- The Sarnian
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- The Saumarez Memorial foundation stone was laid
- The Star received some “grave” news
- The Star was published for the first time
- The States of Guernsey bought Aurigny
- The States of Guernsey proposes a new airport
- The States of Guernsey registers the gov.gg domain
- The Story of Adele H opened in cinemas
- The title Baron de Saumarez was created
- Thoumine, Thomas
- Three Jewish women are deported from Guernsey
- Toilers of the Sea
- Toilers of the Sea: a summary
- Torrey Canyon spills oil on Guernsey’s beaches
- Torteval
- Treasure Hunt on Guernsey and Herm
- Trident VI ran aground on its return from Herm
- Trudy, Guernsey’s biggest ever import, was installed
- TV programmes set on Guernsey
- TV’s Jeeves is rushed to hospital on Guernsey
- Two cargo ships collide on their way to Guernsey
- Two deserters were shot after landing on Guernsey
- Typhoid suspect holidaymaker flies home
- Val des Terres was first opened for traffic
- Victor Hugo flees France and Napoleon
- Victor Hugo in Guernsey
- Victor Hugo plants his United States of Europe oak
- Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens
- Victor Hugo’s house is opened to the public
- Wartime diplomat Wilfred Gallienne born in Guernsey
- Wesleyans celebrated 100 years on Guernsey
- White Rock Sudoku
- William Hedley Cliff buys Jethou
- Winston Churchill visited Guernsey with his wife
- Wombles author Liza Beresford dies
- Work begins on the Val des Terres
- Work started on the Victoria Tower
Nik Rawlinson
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The Sarnian series is written by Nik Rawlinson, who was born in Guernsey and, although he doesn't currently live there, returns regularly. He is a journalist, author and broadcaster working for a wide range of lifestyle titles in the UK and beyond. Find out more at nikrawlinson.com.
The name The Sarnian has two distinct meanings. It's up to the reader to decide which they prefer:
- It's the name of the newspaper for which Ollie works
- The Latin name for Guernsey was Sarnia. Thus, Ollie could be considered to be the Sarnian of the series title