The Jersey Archive was made to store documents on the island has records dating back to 1378. It stores records from the government, personal and business records, letters and police records, as well as family trees and private documents, and much more. The archive holds over 300,000 documents and images. The Archive also stores occupation cards that all islanders were required to have. It also stores letters between the island and the UK, of which the sender was only allowed to write a total of 25 words.

One of the records that stood out to me personally was the occupation card of Maurice Green; The only diabetic in the channel islands to survive the occupation. His story was particularly interesting to me being a diabetic as well, and hearing about the way so many people died from something that most people don’t think about. The shipment of insulin that was supposed to arrive in Jersey was stolen in France, as their supplies were also critically low. This meant that all of the Type 1 diabetics on the island could not control their blood sugar and soon died after slipping into a coma. Maurice was the only diabetic to survive, and after the war, traveled to America to help scientists study type 1 diabetes.