Island Life

A young local woman made a big decision when she eschewed university life in the UK for more of an adventure studying at a university in Hungary. But Alice Dudley-Owen says she came away from the experience with much more than just a degree. She spoke to Georgie Rowbery.

Not everyone left Alderney in 1940, and by the end of 1945 only about a third of those who left had come back, but as Simon De La Rue reports, Homecoming Day – which the northern isle celebrates today – was when the island’s recovery from occupation really began to take shape.