about the archives/ our trip:

Established in 1873, Société Jersiaise is a group of islanders who set up the Jersey charity with a common passion for the islands history. The group began to grow and they started to share their interests and finds with the public, making Jersey’s history more known. Their aims were also the founding of the museum and the study of Jersey’s history as well as sharing their knowledge. 9 pier road became their permanent home in 1893 which is now looked after by Jersey Heritage along with their archives. They aim to protect Jersey’s historical aspects by buying archaeological sites in order to be able to preserve them and allow the public to visit them. The photography archive is one of their most important ones, with specific employees looking after them.

As part of out Elizabeth Castle film project we visited the Société Jersiaise photography archives in the Jersey Museum and had a talk from Patrick who is the head archivist there. He explained to us about the castle and showed us some of the images and drawing that they hold of the castle which we looked at. He also explained/showed us how to use their website which allows us to look at the archives later on in our project if we need them.

pictures from the archives: