Description:
This selection of entries from the six-volume journal of Guernsey farmer and merchant Charles Mollet (1742-1819) illustrates the minutiae of everyday life in Georgian Guernsey and reflects many of the momentous events of the times.
Brief description: DR ROSE-MARIE CROSSAN is a Guernsey-born independent historian specialising in the island's social history. As well as a PhD in history from Leicester University, she has a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation. Her previous publications include Guernsey, 1814-1914: Migration and Modernisation (Woodbridge, 2007); Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560-2015 (Woodbridge, 2015); The States and Secondary Education, 1560-1970 (Guernsey, 2016); A Women's History of Guernsey, 1850s-1950s (Benderloch, 2018); and Criminal Justice in Guernsey, 1680-1929 (Benderloch, 2021).