Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire eds. G. Carr & H. Mytum

We are pleased to announce the publication of Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire edited by Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum. Gilly is a Fellow of the McDonald Institute and Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education. Her publications focus on the material culture of internment, and on the legacy and heritage of the German occupation in the Channel Islands.

Following on from a successful conference at the McDonald Institute in 2010, this book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.

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