A new sculpture, ‘Our Hands’, will go on display at Jersey Museum later this year to commemorate the 65 islanders tried for witchcraft (33 of them executed) between 1560 and 1660. The sculpture incorporates casts of 65 volunteers’ hands.
Jersey, the largest and most important of the Channel Islands, 15 miles N. of the French coast, 17 SE. of Guernsey, and 123 W. of Southampton, area 28,717 acres, population 52,445. Jersey is the most southerly of this group of islands, and is oblong in form; greatest length, E. to W., 12 miles; greatest breadth, … Read more
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Guernsey, the most westerly, and in point of size the second of the Channel Islands; situated in the Bay of St Michael in the Gulf of Avranches at the entrance to the English Channel, 68 miles S. of Weymouth, 81 SE. of Plymouth, and 108 SW. of Southampton; on the French side the island is … Read more
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