You can explore our collections through curated digital resources or full catalogue listings via Jersey’s shared heritage database.
Since its foundation in 1873, the Société has used publishing as means to share knowledge of Jersey’s history, culture and environment. Our publishing output forms a key part of our educational purpose.
The Lord Coutanche Library supports the work of the Société Jersiaise by collecting and preserving material relating to Jersey's history, prehistory and natural environment.
The Photographic Archive (SJPA) contains over 125,000 items dating from the mid-1840s to the present day. It is the Island’s principal collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography
The Société Jersiaise archaeologist is privately funded by a generous benefactor, which is a wonderful gift, for which the Société Jersiaise are extremely grateful.
The Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive (SJPA) will be closed from 23 January to 3 February for our annual stocktake and internal audit.
The Société Jersiaise will be holding a 150th Birthday Tea Party in the Members’ Room at 7 Pier Road on Friday 20th January 2023 at 5pm.
In the early 18th century Havre des Pas was rural in character and almost entirely undeveloped, though the tracks that were later to become Green
The 2022 Annual Bulletin is now available for members in the Island to collect from the Société Bookshop at 7 Pier Road, from Monday to
The Library will be closed from the 19th of December 2022 to the 2nd of January 2023, and will reopen on the 3rd of January
Recently, Garden History enjoyed 3 visits: 2 to gardens which were in “The Glory of the Garden” and a third sometimes open for JAYF.
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