Month: February 2012
"Go, tell the Prussians…"
On 14 February 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Go, tell the Prussians": The Spartan Paradigm in Prussian Military Thought during the Long 19th Century' at The Guild, Cambridge University's Interdisciplinary 19th-century Forum.Read more...
Von der Klosterschule bis zur Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt: On the forced “Napolisation” of Schulpforta and Ilfeld
Presented at the Modern German History Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge, 28 May 2012.Read more...
Youth of Sparta and of Mars: Uses and abuses of Classics at the Prussian Cadet-Schools (1717-1920)
Presented at the Classical Association Annual Conference 2012, University of Exeter, 12 April 2012.Read more...
"Wanderer, kommst Du nach Preußen…": Sparta as a model in Prussian military thought during the long nineteenth century
Presented at the Association for German Studies Annual Conference 2012, University of Edinburgh, 2 April 2012.Read more...
Personal and Political Appropriations of Sparta in German Elite Education during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Presented at the German Historical Institute London Postgraduate Conference 2012, German Historical Institute London, 12 January 2012.Read more...