The Jersey Archive has been keeping the Island’s records since 1993. The archive is responsible for looking after and preserving States, public, church, business and club records. Currently it houses over 300,000 records, the oldest dating back to 1378. This equates to over 10 miles worth of records on over 180,000 people.

The purpose of our visit to the archive was learn more about how archives work and have the opportunity to research records from the German Occupation. While there, we were given a tour of the research room and the Strongrooms, where all the documents are kept. We went into the green and red Strongrooms which contained all of the written records.