Bibliography - Books available to read on-line

Books on the Channel Islands
available to read online

Books on the Channel Islands which can be read free online and/or downloaded

There is a somewhat limited selection of books about Jersey and the other Channel Islands available to read on-line at Google Books and similar sites, but the list is growing steadily. We add to this list as we discover new titles

Google have embarked on a programme of digitising all books currently available in libraries and other repositories, but the number relating to the Channel Island is still small. There is an added problem that by no means all the books which are on Google Books can have their content accessed, particularly by site users outside North America. This is caused by copyright problems - a book which is out of copyright under USA Copyright Law may still be under copyright restrictions elsewhere in the world. It depends on from where you are accessing the Internet how much, if any, of the content of some books can be seen.

Sometimes this problem can be overcome by asking a friend in America to access the book's full content and send a PDF copy to you elsewhere in the world using one of the large file transfer services available. Going online using a VPN can also resolve this issue.

Many books whose content is accessible can be accessed in a number of formats, including PDF, which can be downloaded to be stored on, and accessed from, your own computer; full text versions, page images which can be read on-line like a book; Kindle versions, etc. The full text versions are an OCR (optical character recognition) copy of the original, and these are not edited and sometimes very difficult to read, particularly for older books.

• Google Books
• Internet Archive - a site for books, audio, moving images and music
• Open Library
• French site with some publications relating to the Channel Islands (free registration needed)
• Project Gutenberg e-books to read on line or download in various formats

Books and periodicals available on-line

Note that, for reasons we don't fully understand, some of these books do not open on the title page, but you can easily scroll up to the beginning of these books

History of Jersey

• Rev Philip Falle History of Jersey 1734 reprint
• Rev Philip Falle History of Jersey 1837 edition
• W Plees Account of the Island of Jersey 1817
• Henry David Inglis The Channel Islands : Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney &c. (the result of a two year residence) 1834 Vol 1 - Jersey
• Henry David Inglis The Channel Islands : Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney &c. (the result of a two year residence) 1834 Vol 2 - Guernsey, Alderney and Sark
• The Laws Customs and Priviliges and their Administration in the Island of Jersey Abraham Jones Le Cras 1839
• David Urquhart The Channel Islands: Norman Laws and Modern Practice 1844
• An Authentic Narrative of the Oppressions of the Islanders of Jersey:A Succinct History of the Military Actions, Constitution, Laws, Customs and Commerce of that Island 1771
• Les Manuscrits de Philippe Le Geyt, Ecuyer, Lieutenant Bailli de l'Ile de Jersey sur les Constitutions, les Lois at les Usages de cet Ile
• Poingdestre, Jean, Caesarea or a Discourse of the Island of Jersey: In Two Parts 1889
• Histoire des iles de la Manche 1892
• Caesarea: The island of Jersey; its history, constitution, etc., with a tour ... 1840
• Chroniques, des îles de Jersey, Guernesey, Auregny, et Serk George S Syvret
• The Coinages of the Channel Islands, B Lowsley, 1897
• Prehistoric times and men of the Channel Islands, Joseph Sinel, 1914
• Charles II in the Channel Islands Vol 1, S Elliott Hoskins, 1854
• Charles II in the Channel Islands Vol 2, S Elliott Hoskins, 1854
• The Channel Islands, C J Metcalfe, 1852 - History in verse
• Early relations between Newfoundland and the Channel Islands, H W Le Masurier
• Jersey, ses Antiquités, ses Institutions, son Histoire, Vol 1
• Jersey, ses Antiquités, ses Institutions, son Histoire, Vol 2 927-1327
• A Brief Description and Historical Notices of the Island of Jersey, Rev J Haynes, 1926
• Transactions of Vingtaine de la Ville for the sale of Mont de la Ville for the building of Fort Regent
• Reginald Malfort; A tradition of Jersey or, Bie De Hambie. Volume 1 1840
• Reginald Malfort; A tradition of Jersey or, Bie De Hambie. Volume 2 1840
• The history of Guernsey and its bailiwick : with occasional notices of Jersey, Ferdinand Tupper 1876
• One hundred years of the Royal Jersey agricultural and horticultural Society 1833-1933
• Historical and topographical description of The Channel Islands, Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842

Jersey guides

• The Gossiping Guide to Jersey No 6, 1865 J Bertrand Payne
• Strangers' guide to the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey 1833
• W Plees Account of the Island of Jersey 1824
• Guide to the Island of Jersey, Abraham Le Cras 1834
• A Companion to the Island of Jersey Various authors 1836
• A Sketch of the history and present state of the Island of Jersey Thomas Lyte 1808
• A Guide to Jersey and Guernsey with a brief sketch of the neighbouring islands, 1839
• A Guide to the Island of Jersey, 1842
• A Guide to Jersey and Guernsey with a brief sketch of the neighbouring islands, 1843 edition
• Thorne's Guide to Jersey 1857
• Walter Cooper Dendy Islets of the Channel 1858
• Plages de Bretagne et Jersey
• A Hobble through the Channel Islands in 1858 Edward Gastineau, 1860
• Annals of some of the British Norman Isles John Jacob 1830
• Rambles Among the Channel Islands 1855
• Octavius Rooke The Channel Islands, Pictorial, Legendary and Descriptive 1857
• Frank Fether Dally The Channel Islands: A guide to Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Herm, Jethou Alderney etc 1858
• Islets of the Channel, Walter Cooper Dendy, 1858
• The Channel Islands Joseph Morris 1911
• The Channel Islands Edith Carey, illustrated by Henry Wimbush
• Handbook to the Channel Islands, Francis Coghlan, 1843
• Black's Guide to Jersey, 1870
• Black's Guide to the Channel Islands, David Ansted, editor, 1879
• Sunshine and sea. A yachting visit to the Channel Islands and coast of Brittany, 1885
• Tourist's Guide to the Channel Islands, George Philip Bevan, 1884
• The Channel Islands, or a Peep at our Neighbours, 1847
• The Picturesque and Historical Guide to the Island of Jersey, Edward Durell, 1847
• 1802 Almanac
• The British Press & Jersey Times royal almanac for the year 1873
• Bradshaw's Handbook to Normandy and the Channel Islands
• A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Channel Islands with Excursions to Brittany and Normandy, 1922
• Hampshire, Robert Mudie - with substantial section on Jersey and the other Channel Islands
• An outline of the natural history of our shores, Joseph Sinel, 1906
• Sailing directions for the English Channel :including a general description of the south coasts of England and Ireland, and a detailed account of the Channel Islands, Martin White 1835
• Jersey, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, Alderney and Western Normandy, Black, Charles Bertham 1889
• Sunny isle of Jersey, Campbell, Alfred Stuart, 1941
• The Island of Jersey, 1870s edition
• The Island of Jersey, 1884 edition
• The Channel Islands, David Ansted and Robert Latham, 1865

States and other official publications

• Ancient petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux îles de la Manche, conservées au "Public Record Office" à Londres (1902)
• Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the civil, municipal, and ecclesiastical laws of the island of Jersey. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty (1860)
• Actes des Etats 1524-1596
• Actes des Etats 1676-1688
• A Collection of the Several Petitions, Representations and Answers of the States and of the Royal Court of Jersey relative to political differences 1779-1788
• Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Civil, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Laws of the Island of Jersey
• 1309 Assize Rolls
• Documents relatifs aux Iles de La Manche tirés des rôles des lettres closes, 1898 Official correspondence between the English monarch and the Channel Islands, starting with King John, from the Public Record Office Latin with French translation
• Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the civil, municipal, and ecclesiastical laws of the Island of Jersey, 1860
• Census - 1881. Islands in the British seas. Isle of Man. Jersey. Guernsey and adjacent islands
• Census - 1911. Islands in the British seas. Isle of Man, Jersey
• An act to repeal the provisions of certain acts relating to the removal of vagrant and poor persons born in the isles of Jersey and Guernsey 1830

Family history

• Turk, Marion, Quiet Adventurers in North America (1983)
• Armorial of Jersey, W Bertrand Payne
• The Benests of St Helier Bernau, Charles

Miscellany

• The Jersey Magazine or Monthly Recorder 1809
• Société Jersiaise Bulletins Vol 5 1902-1905

Note: Earlier volumes of the Société bulletins can be found in Google Books but the content is restricted to North American readers

• Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands, by John Linwood Pitts
• The Coinages of the Channel Islands B Lowsley 1897
• Channel Islands Watercolours Henry Wimbush 1919
• The patois poems of the Channel Islands, John Linwood Pitts, 1883
• Harwood's Illustrations of the Channel Islands, J Harwood
• The Fortress, an historical tale of the 15th Century, Vol 1, Amelia Lane, 1840
• The Fortress, an historical tale of the 15th Century, Vol 2, Amelia Lane, 1840
• The Fortress, an historical tale of the 15th Century, Vol 3, Amelia Lane, 1840
• The Channel Islands and their Agriculture, Henry Hill Goodell 1839-1905
• The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine 1836
• The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine 1837
• Channel Islands Television Site Test Report, BBC, 1954
• A Flora of the Island of Jersey, L V Lester-Garland, 1903
• Jersey Cattle in America, John Linsley, 1885
• The Invasion of the Island of Jersey. With the proceedings and sentence of the Courtmartial held on Major Corbet, the Lieut.-Governor, etc, W C Rochfort, 1852
• The Groans of the Inhabitants of Jersey, 1709
• The Poetical Legends of the Channel Islands, William Langley Pope, 1857
• The Channel Islands: historical legendary sketches. In verse, C J Metcalf, 1852
• The Channel Islands Militia. A paper addressed to the men of England, John Sullivan, 1871
• Doctor and Mrs Sinclair's trip to the Channel Islands, C Chilcott, 1874
• Channel Islands and their agriculture, Henry H Goodell, 1900
• The Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey cow : their history, nature and management, WP Hazard 1872
• The history of Channel Island cattle : Guernseys and Jerseys, Ezra Parmalee Prentice, 1863-1955
• The dairy queen--The Jersey cow. Mourant, Ph L S
• About Jersey Cattle, the Butter Breed, R M Gow
• Mount Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations, raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. rockes, 2. seas, 3. gardens, William Prynne
• The lichen-flora of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, Leighton, William Allport, 1879
• An argument addressed to His Majesty's royal commissioners in the island of Jersey, Allen, E
• Feudalism in Jersey; address of the editor of "The Jersey Independent", Harney, G Julian, 1857
• Recettes médicales d'autrefois à Jersey Duprey, E, 1896

Additions

If you are aware of further titles which can be found on-line, please add them to the listing above.