Island Life

2026 marks the diamond anniversary of the Occupation Museum. Christina Kennedy met with the museum’s director and founder, Richard Heaume, to look back at his life leading up to starting the museum, and the story of the museum from then onwards.

You don’t need to look far on these islands to find Stone Age burial sites, but the places where Guernsey’s first inhabitants actually lived are a bit more elusive. La Societe Guernesiaise archaeology secretary Tanya Walls provides an update on the search for Neolithic settlements in Guernsey and Herm.