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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I did fieldwork there too but it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. 🫣 only rainwater to wash in, freezing cold in August, serious allergy to the local heather. It wasn’t fun!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back in the jug agane, as Molesworth would have it.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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. 🙄

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or merf, as we call them. And this one’s in the army! You’ll have all the lady merfs flocking to see a merf in uniform!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oooo yes please! English version if possible 😘

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there a version of this which is not behind a paywall? I’d like to read it.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now I’m grown up, I understand the lyrics! Can’t say I did when introduced to Flanders and Swan by my grandparents as a kiddy

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent! Will definitely get tickets!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Although killing such baby dragons seems very harsh …

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very hard to do in land-locked Cambridge and the east Anglian coast is nothing but flat shingle with brown sea. The Channel Islands, on the other hand: bliss on toast! Shells, golden sand, granite cliffs, vraic, azure sea … everything you need!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All the Channel Islands need to be on your list for beauty, tranquility, serenity, excellent food, fascinating culture and history.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What size? Those in Herm are the size of half a little finger nail.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah now, if you want beautiful pale peach-pink cowries, go to Shell Beach in Herm. That’s the place to collect them! ❤️

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What is a groatie bucky? We need pictures.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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?

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trouble is, with climate change, the choice is dry field or burnt field.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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?

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And agree that it’s absolutely not a wizard’s hat.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Indeed. This was Nuremberg’s treasure from churches and the castle.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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!

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You’re thinking of the wrong island. And the wrong person. A member the public stood up in a meeting in 2021 in Alderney to say that they didn’t want markers at camp sites. There are markers there now.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It doesn’t throw it into doubt; it throws Serbian perceptions of war crimes into doubt.

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

IHRA’s work is on the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma in WWII. They don’t work on modern genocides per se. Maybe try another organisation such as GAMAC? Or the Council of Europe?

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m not sure you recall correctly. When did Guernsey refuse to work to work with them? Over what? And what does IRL stand for?

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Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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...

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