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Month: October 2013

Narrating the Fall of Empires in Weimar and National Socialist Racial Ideology

Presented at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) Fieldnotes Seminar, 11 November 2013.Read more...

"Deconstructing Sparta": Distance-Learning Course at Leicester University"Deconstructing Sparta": Distance-Learning Course at Leicester University

Helen has recently contributed to a distance-learning course which is currently offered by the University of Leicester, entitled 'Deconstructing Sparta'. The coursebook contains ten thematic chapters, which aim to synthesise the most up-to-date scholarship on Sparta in an engaging and readable fashion. The chapters also include guides to further reading, study questions, and notes towards further exploration of the topic in question.

Helen's chapter, entitled 'Later Reception and Modern Recreation of Sparta', charts the development of Spartan reception through the ages.Read more...

Herrschaft durch Schulung: The 'Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten' and the Third Reich's Germanising mission

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung', organised by the Europäisches Netzwerk Erinnerung und Solidarität and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 24 October 2013.Read more...

'Herrschaft durch Schulung'

On 24 October 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Herrschaft durch Schulung: The "Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten" and the Third Reich's Germanising Mission' at an international conference on 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung'.Read more...

'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys'

in Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers / Jahrbuch für britisch-deutsche Kulturbeziehungen 6, 2013, pp. 101-26.

Between 1934 and 1939, pupils from the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten engaged in a series of exchanges with boys from British public schools. This article explores in detail the Anglo-German relationships – including tensions and prejudices – which were forged between pupils and staff during these exchanges, focusing on exchange programmes with Dauntsey's, Kingswood, and The Leys.Read more...