/ 2022

Year: 2022

'The Third Reich's Elite Schools' featured in An Evolving Man podcast

Helen's book The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas has recently been featured by boarding-school syndrome expert and therapist Piers Cross on his podcast 'An Evolving Man'. You can watch the podcast on Youtube here.Read more...

Glowing Review for 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools' in the FAZ

On 13 May 2022, Helen's book The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas received an extremely favourable review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's leading broadsheets. The book has also received critical acclaim in the online journal Sehepunkte.Read more...

Imperial Decline and Fall in National Socialist Racial Ideology

Presented as part of a virtual lecture series for Ukrainian students entitled 'Empire, War, Identities: Ancient Lessons for the Present Day', 13 June 2022.Read more...

Perceptions of Decadence in the Context of Interwar Fascist Regimes

Presented at a virtual workshop on 'The Politics of Decadence', International Institute for Cultural Enquiry, University of Exeter, 16 May 2022.Read more...

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 16th March

At 10pm on Wednesday 16 March, Helen will be speaking about her research on the Napolas on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme, with presenter Anne McElvoy, author Philip Oltermann, playwright Pamela Carter, and Germanist Karen Leeder. You can tune in here or on BBC Sounds.Read more...

Literary Representation with David Higham Associates

Helen's work is now officially represented by Andrew Gordon of David Higham Associates, one of the world's leading literary agencies. Her third book, a popular history exploring the appeal of fascism for ordinary people in interwar Europe, is to be published by Head of Zeus in the UK and Commonwealth.Read more...

Further media attention for The Third Reich's Elite Schools

Following its publication in November 2021, Helen's book The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas received widespread media coverage in the national and international media - click here for more details. Since January, the book has been featured in further media interviews, including on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, WW2TV, at the Wiener Library, and on the Real Dictators and House of Modern History podcasts.Read more...