Professor Gilly Carr OBE

Great to see that the edited volume on WWII archaeology at the edge of living memory is moving into production! My article is on the IHRA charter & its application for archaeologists.🙏 to @gabemoshenska.bsky.social & Jen McKinnon for their hard work on the volume! uclpress.co.uk/book/second-...

We’ve received our annual hamper of #Tuscan goodies from Fattoria #LaVialla, the best part of which is always the #chocolate truffles! 😋🤤🤤 And they added a free bottle of their medal-winning wine to say thank you for the order, so we’re very happy! ❤️❤️

I sent a short article about my visits to 6 of the German Gedenkstaette / Memorials (former concentration camps) to the Guernsey Press and Jersey Evening Post. Channel Islanders were at each of these sites.

The annual problem of writing a lecture on carbon dating when all of the copyright-free images online are of hearts, flowers, and couples staring into each other’s eyes. No mass spectrometers. 🙄

I can safely say that not a single one of my ancestors held this particular bowl, or else it would have been smithereens long ago. The women in my family have butterfingers.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Just walked past the cinema and seen this. Looks right up my street. Anyone seen it yet?

Perfect sandcastle sand & conditions in St Helier but I’m a grownup and have no bucket nor spade! 😭

In the mediaeval period, all the dragons in #Jersey were killed and buried on the beaches. Today, when the tide goes out, you can see spiny crania everywhere and … what?… oh, all right, they’re spider crab shells. Spoilsport.

Dear #Anthropeum, this is a hat? I thought it was a seat with … um … handles. We need pictures of people wearing this. I can only visualise Billy Connolly wearing a tea cosy.

Long beach walk today - just what I needed ❤️❤️❤️

Walked to Green Island and back. 2.5 hour walk. Am exhausted! But all part of going to Jersey on holiday!

What is your favourite shell? I was brought up to prize the yellow #periwinkle, the colour of #Guernsey butter and my aunt Rachel’s girlhood long hair.

A particularly effective art exhibit at @jerseyheritage.bsky.social to discuss witchcraft and its persecution in #Jersey. I wonder what the link is between limpets and healing - does anyone know?

Torcs at @jerseyheritage.bsky.social for @tessmachling.bsky.social (which I expect I sent before - but you can never have enough torcs, right Tess?

I’m in #Jersey for some decompression before term begins. Look at this lovely #vraic - smells gorgeous! I like to sit around the side of Elizabeth Castle, smell the sea air, listen to the seagulls and oyster catchers and enjoy the colour of the granite @jerseyheritage.bsky.social

A huge thank you to @svenellerbrock.bsky.social for showing his photographic exhibition ‘Auschwitz: Fußnoten’ at my conference ‘Holocaust Heritage in the 21st century’ in Cambridge last week! So interesting! Hopefully we’ll show it again at HMD 2027.

A bountiful autumn harvest despite the drought! Blackberry and apple pie tonight! 😋😋

Just some of group of 60 international colleagues who gathered at the University of Cambridge for very successful conference #Holocaust #heritage in the 21st century, which I hosted with colleagues Ola Janus, Tali Nates and Steve Cooke. Exhausted but happy! Thank you everybody who attended!

The rubble from destroyed #Nuremberg is equivalent in height to the #Cheops pyramid. It was spread over the area surrounding the Nazi party rally grounds. I wonder how long till an archaeological project excavates the rubble? #ConflictArchaeology #WWII

This is a street in #Nuremberg restored after severe bombing I’m the war. But it would be a mistake to think that the whole city or even old town is restored like this. I wonder how they chose which streets or buildings to restore?

Somehow the pics didn’t upload from my last post. This was the #Kunstbunker in #Nuremberg which we toured.

We had a tour in the art bunker in #Nuremberg: a former beer cellar used for storing works of art during the war. Great tour!

Look at this amazing prehistoric headpiece from Nuremberg’s Germanisches museum! Isn’t it fabulous?

Good to see acknowledgement of Jewish life and victimhood in #Bamberg through these #Stolpersteine and memorial.

Here is #Bamberg Prison close up, still a working prison today in the middle of a World Heritage Site. No visible memorials to prisoners of the Nazis, and location where 6 Channel Islanders were held: www.frankfallaarchive.org/prisons/bamb...

See the bright yellow building on the right of my photo? That was #Bamberg Prison where 6 #ChannelIslanders were held during the war. More photos when I get closer!

Out of the window of the #Nüremberg courthouse you can see the prison where the Nazi leaders were held. Or rather, that part of the prison was pulled down in the 1980s. You can see the white wall where it was demolished.

And look! You can take a pink flamingo pedalo around the lake and gaze at the Congress Hall of the Nazi party rally grounds. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but there you are.

I passed these two #Stolpersteine in #Nuremberg. I hope the Wurzingers made a good life after they arrived in America.

These two images show a very old #Nuremberg, but to be honest the city looks rebuilt and modern, as indeed it is.

This is the original court room where the #Nüremberg war trials took place. It’s really small! The exhibition information was dense but I learned a lot.

And there’s even a fairground next to the former Nazi party rally grounds in #Nuremberg! 🤯 Well, I suppose it neutralises the space.

Parts of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg are overgrown and being restored. The ruins are fenced off and the land is subdivided for different uses to take the power out of the space.

Went to the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg today. I’ve read Sharon McDonald’s book ‘Difficult Heritage’ and things have changed since then. They’re renovating it and planning new heritage interpretations.

One of the more astonishing things for me at #Dachau was this watch tower converted into the entrance to a Carmelite convent!

This map in #Dachau shows that there were 27 Brits in the camp. I hope they included #Guernsey’s Kingston Bailey and #Jersey’s Catholic priest Albert Durand.

The original door to #Dachau is behind glass. It was stolen over a decade ago but recovered.

I visited #Dachau today. Quite a different atmosphere to other former camps. I wonder if this was because so much has been demolished and rebuilt? This building below, the Jourhaus, is original. #Holocaustheritage #SafeguardingSites

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Visited the White Rose memorial in #Munich today. Their story underscores the importance of critical enquiry, independence of thought and reading. So next time your students want to use #AI, tell them that they need to learn the traditional way to help them know how to fight fascism!

Fabulous to see this memorial campaign in London, the erection of which I support, has achieved its target in record time! Super happy to have provided the research to support this. #Jersey21 #Guernsey8 #jerseyheritage #guernseymuseums www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sky looks like it’s thinking about rain. It WANTS to rain. It’s just forgotten how.

"Candidates should be talking much more about not just the rule of law on principle, but the prosecution of people in practice."

There would appear to be wet stuff on my car windscreen this morning. I thought that such tales of water from the sky were just myths from long ago, a fantasy of our forefathers. 🤷🏻‍♀️

(A) why are the blackberries out of reach? (B) especially the big ones? And (c) is this a metaphor for life?

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Projects on the genocide of the Roma and the Holocaust welcome!