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On 13 February 2013, Helen gave a paper at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, on 'Nazi Elite Schools and International Exchange', part of a series of seminars entitled 'Young in Dangerous Times: Children and Youth in Global History'.Read more...

On 11 February 2014, Helen gave a paper to the Classics Department at the University of Nottingham, in association with the university's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies.Read more...

Helen's first monograph, Sparta's German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps, 1818-1920, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945, has recently been reviewed in the German journal Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (Vol. 54, 2014).Read more...