Digging Dad's Army

Digging Dad's Army
Credit: Digging Dad's Army, www.gwag.org.

Digging Dad’s Army, part of the East and South-East London People’s War Project, is a new multi-disciplinary, community based research project centered on a study area in the south east and east London Boroughs of Greenwich, Barking and Dagenham, Waltham Forest and Newham, and supported by the Great War Archaeology Group.

The term ‘people’s war’ is often used of 20th century wars but is seldom defined and hardly ever explored archaeologically. The East and South-East London People’s War Project (ESELPWP) aims to create a multi-disciplinary but essentially field-based project exploring all aspects of the experience of modern conflict in a densely populated urban landscape.

The ESELPWP uses research into official and community archives, oral history, and archaeological reconnaissance, survey, excavation, and recording to explore the militarised landscapes and popular experience of modern conflict between 1914 and 1945.