Dr Gilly C Carr
I am a University Associate Professor and Academic Director in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. I am also a Fellow and Director of Studies at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. My areas of research focus on Conflict Archaeology, post-conflict Heritage Studies, POW Archaeology and Holocaust studies. I am the author of over 70 publications, of which 13 are books. My most recent exhibition 'On British Soil: Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands' was on at the Wiener Library in London from 19 October 2017-9 February 2018 and travelled to Guernsey Museum in 2019. My website www.frankfallaarchive.org is associated with this. Recent volumes include 'Nazi persecution in the Channel Islands: A Legitimate Heritage?' (Bloomsbury 2019). This builds upon my research on the heritage, memory, history and archaeology of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII. Two former projects in this area include 'Legacies of Occupation: Heritage, memory and archaeology in the Channel Islands' (Springer 2014) and 'Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands, 1940-1945' (Bloomsbury Academic 2014, co-written with Paul Sanders and Louise Willmot).I am currently working on the material culture made by those deported to internment camps in Germany during WWII; the resulting monograph will be published by Routledge. My exhibitions on this subject showed in Guernsey Museum in 2010 and in Jersey Museum in 2012. I am also interested in Nazi labour camps in the Channel Islands.
I am a member of the UK delegation of IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), where I chair the project Safeguarding Sites, which aims to write a European heritage charter to safeguard Holocaust sites.
I am a member of the UK delegation of IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), where I chair the project Safeguarding Sites, which aims to write a European heritage charter to safeguard Holocaust sites.
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has enabled a detailed examination of the layout of the Blanches Banques Camp for German World War I military prisoners. By combining the new survey data with surviving contemporary images, subsequent aerial photographs and an account by the camp designer, Major T. E. Naish, it is possible to understand the decision-making processes in constructing and maintaining the camp, and the constrained world in which the occupants spent several years of the war. This, one of the best-preserved World War I prisoner of war camps in the British Isles, can still be appreciated by walking over the dunes today, and deserves the highest level of protection for the future.
German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1942, is the first Nazi
camp to be excavated on British soil. This paper presents the findings
from three seasons of fieldwork (2014–16), and includes an analysis
of the architecture of internment and the signposts it leaves for that
which does not survive. It also draws into sharp relief the link between
archaeology and oral testimony and the way that archaeology can
both back up and disprove the historical record. Finally, this paper
examines the important role that archaeology can play in uncovering
and helping to normalize ‘taboo heritage'.
This paper will also explore the importance of memorial marginality and centrality; memorial inter-visibility; the difference between the memorialscape of the capital towns of Guernsey and Jersey and the groups they commemorate; and
the narrative that the resulting memorialscape produces.
its heritage have an important place in the history, identity and psyche of islanders.
This is reflected in the number of restored bunkers and Occupation museums, the
popularity of Liberation Day, and the growing number of Occupation memorials
in the islands. This article examines the history of the treatment of Occupation
heritage in the Islands over the last 65 years, focusing on sites of memory and
counter-memory, victims of Nazi persecution, and the changing commemorative
master narratives.
trench art (such as cigarette lighters and badges) made out of coins, which were used as symbols of resistant identity during the German Occupation. It is argued here that coinage is particularly appropriate and versatile for Occupation trench art, made and used by civilians and occupying
soldiers alike, because of the key symbols of patriotism and identity that they carry. In this article, the author shows how these symbols were used at different times in the biographical trajectories of different types of trench art made from and with coins, and varied in meaning depending on
context and owner.
among the local population, even after the appropriation of the symbol by the occupiers.
(WWII) comprises both relics (such as bunkers, the sites of forced worker camps and
artefacts) and post-occupation re-engagement with those relics (including memorialization,
collection of artefacts in museums and commemorative ceremonies). In this
article I examine the role of these relics using the metaphor of the scar. I also investigate
the role that re-engagement with these relics by the next generation has played
in healing islanders of the trauma of occupation. Finally, I seek to demonstrate the
importance today, for the identity and well-being of Channel Islanders, of a ‘correct’
occupation memory and heritage.
manner that minimises dissonance. But what, precisely, does this mean in practice? What if those who ‘own’ the heritage are not professionals, but deeply committed and interested amateur volunteer enthusiasts who have made it their life’s work over decades to conserve and look after the heritage,
but who are not particularly interested in, or actively resistant to, issues that so concern professionals? These are some of the issues which periodically arise in the British Channel Islands over the most visible heritage of Occupation — the German fortifications, or ‘bunkers’.
Books
Yet there is one exception to this trend among previously occupied territories: the British Channel Islands. Collective identity construction in the islands still relies on the notion of 'orderly and correct relations' with the Germans, while talk of 'resistance' earns raised eyebrows. The general attitude to the many witnesses of conscience who existed in the islands remains ambiguous.
This book conversely and expertly argues that there was in fact resistance against the Germans in the Channel Islands and is the first text to fully explore the complex relationship that existed between the Germans and the people of the only part of the British Isles to experience occupation. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/protest-defiance-and-resistance-in-the-channel-islands-9781472512963/#sthash.Y8oxn0Ea.dpuf
has enabled a detailed examination of the layout of the Blanches Banques Camp for German World War I military prisoners. By combining the new survey data with surviving contemporary images, subsequent aerial photographs and an account by the camp designer, Major T. E. Naish, it is possible to understand the decision-making processes in constructing and maintaining the camp, and the constrained world in which the occupants spent several years of the war. This, one of the best-preserved World War I prisoner of war camps in the British Isles, can still be appreciated by walking over the dunes today, and deserves the highest level of protection for the future.
German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1942, is the first Nazi
camp to be excavated on British soil. This paper presents the findings
from three seasons of fieldwork (2014–16), and includes an analysis
of the architecture of internment and the signposts it leaves for that
which does not survive. It also draws into sharp relief the link between
archaeology and oral testimony and the way that archaeology can
both back up and disprove the historical record. Finally, this paper
examines the important role that archaeology can play in uncovering
and helping to normalize ‘taboo heritage'.
This paper will also explore the importance of memorial marginality and centrality; memorial inter-visibility; the difference between the memorialscape of the capital towns of Guernsey and Jersey and the groups they commemorate; and
the narrative that the resulting memorialscape produces.
its heritage have an important place in the history, identity and psyche of islanders.
This is reflected in the number of restored bunkers and Occupation museums, the
popularity of Liberation Day, and the growing number of Occupation memorials
in the islands. This article examines the history of the treatment of Occupation
heritage in the Islands over the last 65 years, focusing on sites of memory and
counter-memory, victims of Nazi persecution, and the changing commemorative
master narratives.
trench art (such as cigarette lighters and badges) made out of coins, which were used as symbols of resistant identity during the German Occupation. It is argued here that coinage is particularly appropriate and versatile for Occupation trench art, made and used by civilians and occupying
soldiers alike, because of the key symbols of patriotism and identity that they carry. In this article, the author shows how these symbols were used at different times in the biographical trajectories of different types of trench art made from and with coins, and varied in meaning depending on
context and owner.
among the local population, even after the appropriation of the symbol by the occupiers.
(WWII) comprises both relics (such as bunkers, the sites of forced worker camps and
artefacts) and post-occupation re-engagement with those relics (including memorialization,
collection of artefacts in museums and commemorative ceremonies). In this
article I examine the role of these relics using the metaphor of the scar. I also investigate
the role that re-engagement with these relics by the next generation has played
in healing islanders of the trauma of occupation. Finally, I seek to demonstrate the
importance today, for the identity and well-being of Channel Islanders, of a ‘correct’
occupation memory and heritage.
manner that minimises dissonance. But what, precisely, does this mean in practice? What if those who ‘own’ the heritage are not professionals, but deeply committed and interested amateur volunteer enthusiasts who have made it their life’s work over decades to conserve and look after the heritage,
but who are not particularly interested in, or actively resistant to, issues that so concern professionals? These are some of the issues which periodically arise in the British Channel Islands over the most visible heritage of Occupation — the German fortifications, or ‘bunkers’.
Yet there is one exception to this trend among previously occupied territories: the British Channel Islands. Collective identity construction in the islands still relies on the notion of 'orderly and correct relations' with the Germans, while talk of 'resistance' earns raised eyebrows. The general attitude to the many witnesses of conscience who existed in the islands remains ambiguous.
This book conversely and expertly argues that there was in fact resistance against the Germans in the Channel Islands and is the first text to fully explore the complex relationship that existed between the Germans and the people of the only part of the British Isles to experience occupation. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/protest-defiance-and-resistance-in-the-channel-islands-9781472512963/#sthash.Y8oxn0Ea.dpuf
Using mainly their Red Cross parcels as raw materials, they recycled the wooden parcel crates, parcel wrappings and string, cardboard parcels, cellophane packing materials and empty food tins to make items which ranged from football trophies to communion chalices, chess sets to stage sets and brooches to trinket boxes.