the eighteenth century

Accompanied visits to

• Hamptonne Country Life Museum Langlois house restored to how it would have been in 1770.


• Elizabeth Castle - the major island fortress during the eighteenth century.


• Le Hocq Tower – one of the round towers built against the French at the time of the American Revolutionary Wars and the Battle of Jersey.

Guided walks (high pupil:adult teacher ration recommended due to traffic)

• The Battle of Jersey walk looks at the scene of the battle in the Royal Square, the Town Church and the burial place of major Pierson and Baron de Rullecourt.

The St Aubin’s walk looks at various examples of 18^th century merchants’ houses and warehouses around the Bulwarks and the High Street


Illustrated talks by one of our education staff on

• The Battle of Jersey 1781


• Charles Robin and the Gaspé Cod trade


• The currency riots of the 1730s


• Political Parties in Jersey – the Charlots and Jeanots


• Philippe de Carteret – circumnavigator


• Privateering – a license to print money


• 18^th century painting detectives – Heriots prints 1785-1790


• 18^th century painting detectives – Philippe Jean Moises Corbet and the invasion of 1779


• The Richmond Map 1787


• 18^th century fortifications


• 18^th century Jersey Militia


• Jersey and the French Revolution
  
• The armies of the Napoleonic Wars


• The Living History Programme: meet Master Gunner Gilham at Elizabeth Castle.