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WE REMEMBER THE Troubles through atrocities, damage and death counts. But it was also a time when people in the thick of the conflict had to live their daily lives: listening to music, sending Christmas cards, going to parties.
Photographer Donovan Wylie and editor Timothy Prus dug through the archives for the mementoes that people across the North kept in scrapbooks. From the Rev Ian Paisley’s singing career, to festive greetings with machine guns, to snapshots of party guests in suspenders, they show a very different history of the Troubles – and how the political conflict infiltrated practically every element of life.
Donovan Wylie and Timothy Prus’ Scrapbook is published by the Archive of Modern Conflict/Steidl and is available here.
Gallery: Personal items from the Troubles
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