A Women's History of Guernsey, 1850s-1950s

DR ROSE-MARIE CROSSAN is a Guernsey-born independent historian specialising in all aspects of the island's social history. Her early background was in languages, with her first degree a BA in French and German from Oxford University. Her study of pre-twentieth-century European literature ignited a latent interest in history which eventually culminated in a wish to study the subject at doctoral level. In 2005, she gained her PhD from Leicester University with a thesis on nineteenth-century immigration to Guernsey. This was published two years later as 'Guernsey, 1814¿1914: Migration and Modernisation' (Woodbridge, 2007). Among Dr Crossan's subsequent publications are 'Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560¿2015' (Woodbridge, 2015); 'The States and Secondary Education, 1560¿1970' (Guernsey, 2016); and 'A Women's History of Guernsey, 1850s-1950s' (Benderloch, 2018).