Year: 2016

Presented at the inaugural conference of the Children's History Society, 'Horrible Histories? Children's Lives in Historical Contexts', King's College London, 16 June 2016.Read more...

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...

An essay by Helen 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 is intended to encourage students to develop high-level skills in historical studies.Read more...

On 6 April 2016, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Between Forgetting and Demonisation: Nazi elite-school pupils and German collective memory' at a conference on 'Places of Amnesia', held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge.Read more...

Presented at a conference entitled 'Places of Amnesia', CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 6 April 2016.Read more...

On 16 March 2016, Helen presented a paper entitled 'A Love-Hate Relationship? The impact of historical philhellenism on Germany's view of the "Greek Crisis"' at a workshop held at the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford.

The student-led workshop was organised under the auspices of the UK Society for Modern Greek Studies and the Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford, with the support of the Onassis Foundation. The workshop also formed part of "The Cultural Politics of the Greek Crisis" research network.Read more...

Presented at a workshop on 'Renegotiating History in Light of the Greek Crisis', Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, 16 March 2016.Read more...