The next few days I will be sharing a few spreads from LIBERATION / OCCUPATION newspaper produced with my students at Hautlieu School as part of an extensive programme of study that includes collaborations with French post-graduate students from EESAB-site de Rennes and Jersey archives and heritage institutions, such as Société Jersiaise, Jersey Heritage, CIOS Jersey, Jersey War Tunnels and Bureau des Iles Anglo-Normandes with funding from Liberation 75.

Students were challenged with responding to personal stories told by islanders experiencing the German Occupation first-hand and finding inspiration by looking through images, documents and objects held in various collections in Jersey’s public archives, producing a series of individual creative outcomes such as montages, photo-zines and collectively construct a visual narrative presented as a 48-page newspaper supplement printed and distributed by Jersey Evening Post on Friday 24 April. Make sure to get your copy!

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Images courtesy of Jazmin Gulley, Emily Cooper and Nathan Healey