Year: 2015
Lunchtime Lecture at the Cambridge Rotary ClubOn 7 July 2015, Helen gave a lunchtime lecture to the Rotary Club of Cambridge, entitled 'Nazis at the Leys: British public school exchange programmes with the Third Reich'. The lecture explored the exchanges which took place between the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas) and a number of British public schools during the 1930s, including The Leys School in Cambridge.
The talk was one in a series of general-interest lectures hosted by the Club throughout the year, and was well attended by local Rotarians.Read more...
Feature in "The Independent"Helen has recently been featured in an article in The Independent entitled 'Archive video shows Nazi flag flying in Glasgow; Hitler salute in London – but what should we read into it?'
The article, by Kiran Moodley, attempts to understand how, in 1930s Britain, symbols of Hitler's Germany had not yet gained the notoriety and connotations that they possess today.Read more...
Guest lecture, presented to the Rotary Club of Cambridge, 7 July 2015.Read more...
On 7 July 2015, Helen gave a lecture to the Rotary Club of Cambridge entitled 'Nazis at The Leys: Public school exchange programmes with the Third Reich'.Read more...
Guest lecture, presented to the Forschungskolloquium der Abteilung Historische Bildungsforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 4 June 2015.Read more...
On 4 June 2015, Helen presented a lecture to the Forschungskolloquium der Abteilung Historische Bildungsforschung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The lecture gave an overview of the content of Helen's first monograph, Sparta's German Children.Read more...
Helen's review of Christian Ingrao's monograph Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine (2013) has just been published in the Book Reviews section of the Wiener Library Blog.Read more...
Presented at a conference entitled 'ExpertInnen Workshop: Die Klosterkammer in der NS-Zeit - Relevante Fragen, Quellenlage, vorläufige Thesen', Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 17 April 2015.Read more...
On 17 April 2015, Helen presented a paper at a two-day conference organised by the Leibniz Universität Hannover's Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, entitled 'ExpertInnen Workshop: Die Klosterkammer in der NS-Zeit - Relevante Fragen, Quellenlage, vorläufige Thesen'.Read more...
Further acclaim for 'Sparta's German Children'Helen's 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 been critically acclaimed in the most recent issue of The Classical Review.
The reviewer, Philipp Strauss, praises the book’s quality and the convincing nature of its arguments, concluding that it makes 'a valuable contribution to the research on the mirage spartiate and its transformation in modern societies, as well as to the history of educational institutions'.Read more...