Year: 2018
'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than the political relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. This review essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts the notion of a Hellenophile Sonderweg when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship.Read more...
New Publication: Die Klosterschule IlfeldHelen's article ‘Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt’ has just been published in Die Klosterkammer Hannover 1931-1955: Eine Mittelbehörde zwischen wirtschaftlicher Rationalität und Politisierung, ed. Detlef Schmiechen Ackermann et al., Göttingen (Wallstein).
The volume was published as part of a long-standing investigation of the history of the Klosterkammer Hannover under National Socialism, funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.Read more...
November 2018, Helen gave a public lecture entitled ‘Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt’ at the concluding conference of the Volkswagen-funded research project ‘Die Klosterkammer Hannover in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus’, which was held at the Volkshochschule in Hannover.Read more...
On 26 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Mussolini’s “Third Rome”, Hitler’s Third Reich, and the Allure of Antiquity’ at Professor Arnd Bauerkämper’s Historical Research Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin.Read more...
Presented at the Abschlusstagung des Forschungsprojekts “Die Klosterkammer Hannover in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus”, Volkshochschule Hannover, 28 November 2018.Read more...
On 14 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Nazi Elite Schools and the Third Reich's Germanisation programme' to the Modern History Seminar at the University of East Anglia.Read more...
Presented at Professor Arnd Bauerkämper’s Historical Research Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, 26 November 2018.Read more...
Presented at the Modern History Research Seminar, School of History, University of East Anglia, 14 November 2018.Read more...
Presented at an international conference entitled 'Make Revolution Great Again: The Context and Legacy of the 1918-19 German Revolution', All Souls College, Oxford, 10 November 2018.Read more...
On 10 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Reactionary Violence, the Freikorps, and the Legacy of War and Revolution for the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps' at an international conference entitled 'Make Revolution Great Again: The Context and Legacy of the 1918-19 German Revolution', All Souls College, Oxford.Read more...