Author: Helen Roche

Panel presented at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2014, International Institute for Social History, Vienna, 23 April 2014.Read more...

Helen's first monograph, Sparta's German Children, has recently received a favourable review in the online humanities forum H-Soz-u-Kult / Historische Bildungsgeschichte Online.Read more...

On 25 February 2014, Helen gave a paper entitled 'Education for Death? The glorification of self-sacrificial heroism in Prussian cadet-school literature' at the Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.Read more...

Presented at the Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 25 February 2014.Read more...

Presented at the Modern German History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 17 February 2014.Read more...

On 13 February 2013, Helen gave a paper at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, on 'Nazi Elite Schools and International Exchange', part of a series of seminars entitled 'Young in Dangerous Times: Children and Youth in Global History'.Read more...

On 11 February 2014, Helen gave a paper to the Classics Department at the University of Nottingham, in association with the university's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies.Read more...

Presented at the University of Manchester as part of a seminar series entitled 'Young in Dangerous Times: Children and Youth in Global History', 13 February 2014.Read more...

Helen's first 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 recently been reviewed in the German journal Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (Vol. 54, 2014).Read more...

Presented at the Classics Department, University of Nottingham, in association with the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, 11 February 2014.Read more...