Month: May 2016

An essay on Hitler's foreign policy, commissioned by Hodder Education, has now appeared in the publisher's new Edexcel-approved A-level textbook, entitled History+ for Edexcel A Level: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe.

The textbook, edited by Peter Clements, Robin Bunce, Sarah Ward, Mark Gosling, and Andrew Flint, is intended to encourage students to develop high-level skills in historical studies by providing a stimulating mixture of expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading academics.Read more...

Helen's article 'Herrschaft durch Schulung: The Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten and the Third Reich's Germanising mission' has recently been published in an edited volume entitled Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewusstsein im östlichen Europa. Ideologie, Machtausbau, Beharrung (National Socialism and Regional Consciousness in Eastern Europe: Ideology, Construction of Power, Persistence), edited by Burkhard Olschowsky and Ingo Loose.Read more...

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Life of Testimony / Testimony of Lives: A Life-Writing Conference', Queen Mary, University of London, 6 May 2016.Read more...

On 6 May 2016, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Contested Youth? The instrumentalisation of testimony in life-writing by former Nazi elite-school pupils' at an international conference entitled 'Life of Testimony / Testimony of Lives: A Life-Writing Conference', at Queen Mary, University of London.Read more...