These two broadsheets and the seven issues of the magazines Jersey Theatre and Jersey Forum were published by Frowd during the German Occupation of Jersey.

Alan Michael Frowd was born in Suffolk on 6th February 1921. He went to school in St Leonards on Sea in Sussex. In 1940 aged 19y he registered as a conscientious objector and moved to Jersey to take up work on farms. He decided to remain on the island when it was occupied by the Germans.

In 1944, after damaging his back when he fell from a tree that he was cutting down for firewood, he started the magazine as a way of earning money. It was a difficult venture as all paper for publishing was rationed by the Germans because it all had to come from France. The situation deteriorated after the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944 when the Channel Islands, with 17,000 German troops in addition to some 70,000 islanders, were cut off from all supplies, including paper and food.

By 1944 Mike was living in a flat in St Helier with René Hermann Franoux (b 1917) where they harboured an escaped Russian prisoner of war named Fyodor Polycarpovich Buriy for the last 11 months of the Occupation.

After the war Frowd worked as a journalist in London then started a public relations company for finance companies. He died in Surrey in 1995. An article about Mike Frowd and his publishing venture will be published in the Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise in 2026.