The written history of Jersey is heavily dominated by wars and politics. Few historians have delved very far into the social history of the island.
Jerripedia has, since its launch, attempted to put that right, but with limited sources to turn to, it has been a struggle to make significant progress, particularly with the editor and principal editorial contributors not resident in the island, and having no access to library and archive resources.
Composite news pages
This situation is now being remedied by the introduction of content from Jersey newspapers. We started in 2019 looking back almost two centuries ago through the pages of the Jersey Times of 1848, followed soon after by a weekly 100-years-ago review of the news in the Evening Posts of the 1920s. We then added news from the Jersey Independent in 1855 and 1873, and the Evening Post and Morning News from the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939, onwards.
The project had to be suspended in April 2020 because access to the Public Library was restricted during the Covid lockdown, but was resumed later in the year, on a more limited basis, 'newspaper pages' being added on a once-a-week basis, alternating between 1848 and 1920.
A further break during 2021, occasioned by Covid restrictions and pressures of other work on the website, lasted until November, when we resumed the project with a look back at the news 100 years ago in 1921. We would like to resume coverage of other periods, but the production of a page is very labour-intensive and for the time being we are just producing a single page every fortnight.
Hedley's diary
In alternate weeks were have resumed the publication of Hedley Clement's diary of the events in the weeks and months following the Liberation of Jersey from German Occupation in May 1945. That diary is based on the pages of the Evening Post at the time.
Jersey Times
- Edition 1: 4 January - 4 February 1848
- Edition 2: 15 February - 10 March 1848
- Edition 3: 15 March 1848 - 14 April 1848
- Edition 4: 14 April 1848 - 9 May 1848
- Edition 5: 9 May 1848 - 9 June 1848
- Edition 6: 6 June 1848 - 6 July 1848
- Edition 7: 7 July 1848 - 21 July 1848
- Edition 8: 25 July 1848 - 8 August 1848
- Edition 9: 11 August - 22 August 1848
- Edition 10: 23 August - 29 August 1848
- Edition 11: 1 September - 29 September 1848
- Edition 12: 6 October - 7 November 1848
- Edition 13: 7 November - 13 November 1848
- Edition 14: 17 November - 15 December 1848
- Edition 15: 19 December 1848 - 30 January 1849
- Edition 16: 2 February - 3 March 1849
- Edition 17: 9 March to 6 April 1849
- Edition 18: 10 April to 4 May 1849
Evening Post
Advertising editions
1899
1901
News editions
Please note that there are gaps in these editions, featured as 100 years ago this week when first added, because of lockdown restrictions during the Covid pandemic
1920
- Edition 1: 1 - 5 January 1920
- Edition 2: 6 - 10 January 1920
- Edition 3: 12 - 17 January 1920
- Edition 4: 19 - 24 January 1920
- Edition 5: 26 - 31 January 1920
- Edition 6: 2 - 7 February 1920
- Edition 7: 9 - 14 February 1920
- Edition 8: 16 - 21 February 1920
- Edition 9: 23 - 28 February 1920
- Edition 10: 1 - 6 March 1920
- Edition 11: 8 - 13 March 1920
- Edition 12: 15 - 20 March 1920
- Edition 13: 22 - 27 March 1920
- Edition 14: 29 - 3 April 1920
- Edition 15: 5 - 10 April 1920
- Edition 16: 12 - 17 April 1920
- Edition 17: 14 - 19 September 1920
- Edition 18: 24 September - 7 October 1920
- Edition 19: 25 October - 6 November 1920
- Edition 20: 8 - 20 November 1920
- Edition 21: 22 November - 4 December 1920
- Edition 22: 6 - 17 December 1920
1921
- Edition 1: 21 February - 5 March 1921
- Edition 2: 1 - 15 November 1921
- Edition 3: 15 - 26 November 1921
- Edition 4: 28 November - 10 December 1921
1922
- Edition 1: 2 - 14 January 1922
- Edition 2: 16 - 28 January 1922
- Edition 3: 30 January - 11 February 1922
- Edition 4: 13 - 25 February 1922
- Edition 5: 27 February - 11 March 1922
1939
2020
Jersey Independent
1855
- Edition 1: 13 - 26 August 1855
- Edition 2: 27 August - 8 September 1855
- Edition 3: 9 - 16 September 1855
- Edition 4: 17 - 23 September 1855
1873
- Edition 1: 2 - 5 July 1873
- Edition 2: 6 - 10 July 1873
- Edition 3: 11 - 19 July 1873
- Edition 4: 19 - 24 July 1873
- Edition 5: 26 July - 1 August 1873
Magazine articles
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A visit to Jersey by the Prime Minister of Canada in 1902, reported by The Sphere magazine Click here to read the article
A new flying boat service from Southampton in 1926 Click here to read the article
Aerial pictures of St Helier in 1940 and photographs of evacuees arriving in England Click here to view a larger page
A view about the impact of the Occupation from The Sphere in October 1941 Click here to read the article
War in the Channel Islands? Not really, just a report from The Sphere in 1929 of Army exercises Click here to read the details
The 1921 Royal Visit of George V and Queen Mary Click here to read the details
More about the Royal Visit from The Sphere Click here to read the details
The Sphere reports on the use of English in the States Assembly in 1900 Click here to read the article
Cattle shows resume in 1946, a year after the Liberation as reported in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Photographs from the 1948 Island Cattle Show in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Click here to read the details
Delegates from worldwide attend a cattle breeders' conference in 1949 Click here to read the details in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
The 'cream of island cattle' on display at Springfield in 1949 as reported in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Perhaps the best early potato season to date as reported in the 1949 Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Roebuck enters service in 1897 Read the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News article
Whippet racing in Jersey in 1905 An article in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
A two-page article in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News on Jersey's go-ahead farmers in 1957
More photographs from 1957 of vraic, composting and pig farming
Pictures of lobster fishing in 1902 from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
The 1950 Island Cattle Show reported in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Report of Queen Victoria's 1846 visit to Jersey in the Illustrated London News
A 1948 article on Jersey after the war in in the The Sphere
Promoting Jersey tourism in the Liverpool Echo in 1984
The Queen and Prince Philip visit Jersey in 1957, as reported in The Sphere
More pictures of the Royal Visit from The Sphere
A photograph of the children of the Lieut-Governor's long-serving secretary and ADC, Lt-Cdr Oswald De Las Casas, made the front page of the Sketch in 1956
A report of a play about Lillie Langtry, the 'Jersey Lily', written by her granddaughter's husband, Sir Basil Bartlett, in The Sketch in 1940
An interview with Lillie Langtry in The Sketch in 1895
Another feature on Lillie Langtry in The Sketch in 1902
A feature on Jersey artist Sir John Everett Millais in The Sketch in August 1896
Growing tomatoes in Jersey. A 1949 article in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Ormer hunting, featured in The Sphere in 1956
Jersey's new lifeboat undergoes final trials in 1948, as reported in The Sphere
A report on the opening of Jersey's new airport in a 1937 edition of The Sphere
A report of an attack on a Jersey fishing boat by a giant octopus in 1922
The 1921 visit of King George V and Queen Mary from the Illustrated London News
The visit to Mont Orgueil Castle from the Illustrated London News
Jersey's unique green lizard from the Illustrated London News in 1927
'Men of Jersey' in 1968 from the Illustrated London News
The 1935 visit of the Prince of Wales from the Illustrated London News
The 1935 visit of the Prince of Wales from the Illustrated London News
The 1949 visit of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip from the Illustrated London News
Sketches of the Channel Islands from Pictorial World in 1875
Sketches of Jersey from the Illustrated London news in 1880
More 1880 sketches from the Illustrated London news in 1880