Tuesday 4th June 2019:

The visit to Societe Jersiaise archive served as a introduction to the A2 project, ‘Bunker Archaeololgy’ and the German Occupation of Jersey. The aim of the visit was begin research on and start to develop ideas for the forthcoming project.

To begin the day we were given a brief introduction into what the SJPA is for and what it is used for, before being allowed to rummage through the many boxes of photographs that documented life under Nazi occupation. For this task we had to select at least 10 images that interested us and write down the reference number so we could later use the high resolutions.

Our second task was to create a narrative using a selection of archive images. To do this, my group arranged the images into three categories; Construction, weapons and living. We then further selected four images from each of the categories before arranging them into a order that showed the Nazi’s integrating themselves into island life.

During lunch we were tasked with waling around town and photographing landscapes, people and objects that related to the Occupation. Many of us, including me, went to the obvious places for this. In the Royal Square there’s a ‘V’ paved into the floor and was to represent ‘V’ for ‘victory’.