Author: Helen Roche
Critique of the portrayal of the Prussian Cadet Corps in Jörg Muth's 'Command Culture' (2011)An informal blog review considering the flaws in Jörg Muth's portrayal of the Prussian Cadet Corps in chapter 3 of his monograph Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2011).Read more...
Presented at the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 6 July 2012.Read more...
Helen was recently interviewed about her PhD-research by Dr. Jessica Hughes of Classics Confidential, the Open University’s vodcasting site for Classical ‘news, gossip and curiosities’. The interview has now been featured in an article on the Open University's website, entitled 'Bitesize interviews take a closer look at Classical Studies'.Read more...
On 14 February 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Go, tell the Prussians": The Spartan Paradigm in Prussian Military Thought during the Long 19th Century' at The Guild, Cambridge University's Interdisciplinary 19th-century Forum.Read more...
Presented at the Modern German History Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge, 28 May 2012.Read more...
Presented at the Classical Association Annual Conference 2012, University of Exeter, 12 April 2012.Read more...
Presented at the Association for German Studies Annual Conference 2012, University of Edinburgh, 2 April 2012.Read more...
Presented at the German Historical Institute London Postgraduate Conference 2012, German Historical Institute London, 12 January 2012.Read more...
N.B. For a list of talks given before December 2011, please click here.Read more...
'"Go, tell the Prussians…": The Spartan paradigm in Prussian military thought during the long nineteenth century'in New Voices in Classical Reception Studies ejournal, Issue 7 (2012), pp. 25-39.
This article examines the ways in which Ancient Spartan history and mores, and in particular the Spartan art of war, were often portrayed as providing useful precedents for the Prussian military. Commentators frequently saw the Officer-Corps as embodying a type of ‘new Sparta’ in Prussia, recreating a similarly militaristic and socially exclusive society in contemporary terms.Read more...