LIBERATION 80
IN PICTURES: Liberation Day as it happened in 1945…
Here’s how one of the most important days in Jersey history unfolded, told through pictures… Inside the HMS Bulldog off…
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GUIDE: Bouanne Libéthâtion! Here’s what’s on for Liberation 80
Here’s what’s on the agenda for islanders looking to celebrate Liberation Day this year – which will mark the first time the event is officially recognised as the island’s national day. 9 May was adopted as Jersey’s official national day…
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‘Operation Nestegg’ document fetches over three-times guide price at UK auction
A copy of Britain’s top-secret plans to free the Channel Islands – discovered in a cardboard box 80 years after the Occupation – was among the “star lots” sold at an…
Read More >Top secret plans to liberate Channel Islands discovered in cardboard box
A top-secret document outlining Britain’s military plan to liberate the Channel Islands – code named ‘Operation Nestegg’ – is due to be sold at auction after it was discovered in a…
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OCCUPATION STORIES
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FOCUS: From stained glass to snaps of Guernsey – a German sailor’s story
When Jakob Hugo Arnold was born in 1896, Guernsey was in the middle of the so-called Telephone War, with the island’s government pulling down telephone poles installed – without permission – by Britain’s National Telephone Company. Forty-four years later, Jakob – by then a retired stained glass maker – would…
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eBay photo album was “treasure trove” full of German sailor’s Channel Islands photos
A military history enthusiast from Guernsey was “astonished and excited” when he opened a photo album he bought on eBay to discover it was full of pictures of the Channel Islands taken by a German sailor during World War Two. Tim Osborne, a pilot and local tour guide, told Express…
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Remembering and celebrating Jersey’s innovative spirit during the Occupation and beyond. Read the special edition of Connect now.
LIBERATION PODCASTS
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