Legacies of Occupation
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Dr. Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education. She is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She has published widely on the subject of the heritage of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands and her subsequent volume, Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands, 1940-1945, co-written with Paul Sanders and Louise Willmot will be published in 2014. She recently curated Occupied Behind Barbed Wire, an exhibition on the arts and crafts made by the 2,200 Channel Islanders interned in Germany during the war, for Guernsey Museum (2010) and Jersey Museum (2012). She co-edited with Harold Mytum, The Cultural Heritage of POWs: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire and POW Archaeology. Her most recent publication is "Islands of War, Islands of Memory, which she is co-editing with Keir Reeves.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Legacies of Occupation.- Chapter 2: Militaria: Collecting the debris of war.- Chapter 3: Bunkers: Edifices of abomination or heritage sites?.- Chapter 4: Labour camps: Forgotten sites or sites of deliberate amnesia?.- Chapter 5: The politics of memory on Liberation Day.- Chapter 6: Interpreting memorial landscapes of occupation and liberation.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Heritage, identity and generations.