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Month: January 2014

Spartan Ideals of Self-Sacrifice and German Military Propaganda

Presented at the Classics Department, University of Nottingham, in association with the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, 11 February 2014.Read more...

Guest Lecture at the University of Münster

On 23 January 2013, Helen gave an invited lecture at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Unversität Münster, under the aegis of the Centre for the History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean (Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums).Read more...

The Leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan Nationalist Paradigm

Guest lecture, presented at the Centre for History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean (Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 23 January 2014.Read more...

New publication: New publication: 'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft'

Helen's article, 'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys', has recently been published in the 6th volume of Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers / Jahrbuch für britisch-deutsche Kulturbeziehungen.

The article looks at a series of exchanges which took place between the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten and British public schools, between 1934 and 1939.Read more...