Professor Gilly Carr OBE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺
@CarrGilly
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Conflict archaeologist, historian, Holocaust heritage researcher, IHRA delegate and Cambridge Professor. All tweets are my own & not institutional opinions
Cambridge, England
Joined March 2019
What an honour it was to be presented with an #OBE from Princess Anne this morning in stunning surroundings at #Windsor Castle. We chatted about the Lord @EricPickles Alderney Expert Review and the findings of the team, and her happy visit to #Guernsey & #Sark earlier this year.
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Shocking to see the far right protests at Jedwabne today. Holocaust distortion was on full display.
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I was at Jedwabne today to witness this.
Yad Vashem is profoundly shocked and deeply concerned by the desecration of historical truth and memory at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland, where new plaques were recently installed in an apparent attempt to distort the story of the massacre of Jews. On 10 July 1941, amid.
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RT @Number10cat: I may not always love you.But long as there are stars above you.You never need to doubt it.I'll make you so sure about it.….
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Coming next Thursday 29 May, @channel4tv.bsky.social, #MinnowFilms, 8pm, the first of a 2-part documentary called Britain Under The Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation. Louise Willmot and I are the resident historians! #WWII #occupation #Guernsey #Jersey
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Very much enjoyed giving a lecture at the museum for @JerseyHeritage last night. The story behind the Frank Falla Archive is always an emotional one!
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RT @SophieDulsonITV: Such an honour to speak to some of the children of Force 135 and hear their fathers’ stories of Liberation Day. #Lib….
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RT @SophieDulsonITV: What a privilege to have been able to share Sir Timothy Le Cocq's family story. His father, Bernard Le Cocq, was part….
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RT @Govgg: 🇬🇬 Guernsey's 80th Anniversary of Liberation was a remarkable day. Here is a small snapshot of the fantastic programme of events….
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RT @RobbieRinder: What a day to remember! Guernsey’s 80th Liberation Anniversary had it all, a beautiful afternoon tea dance with many who….
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A moving ceremony at Westmount today in St Helier where wreaths were laid in memory of the forced and slave labourers. Good to see such a large crowd. Chris Addy of @JerseyHeritage gave a great speech with quotes from slave workers. #Liberation80
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Following the moving ceremonies and powerful speeches in #Jersey today, the party begins for the celebration of #Liberation80, which of course has to be marked with Jersey ice cream 🤤😋☺️
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Privileged to have been joined at our @TheIHRA workshop for archaeologists and conservation professionals by the Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, who answered all our questions on Halacha and human remains.
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RT @DovForman: 80 years ago, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, and found a hell on earth. Mervyn Kersh, 100, helped liberate it. Sus….
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RT @libbage55: #ResistanceUnited .Advertisement at a London bus stop… ya gotta love the British
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RT @RHUL_HRI: An excellent new call for papers for a conference on 'Materiality and Precarity: Preserving Holocaust Memorial Sites'.
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RT @UCamArchaeology: We are delighted that Professor Gilly Carr (@CarrGilly), Dr Nik Petek-Sargeant and Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu (@sjony….
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