News
On 22 January 2016, Ali Jones, Clara Maier, Helen Roche, Damian Valdez and Waseem Yaqoob hosted the first of a series of DAAD-funded workshops on 'Herrschaft and Gewalt from the Kaiserreich to the Berlin Republic'.Read more...
Helen's article 'Surviving Stunde Null: Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich', has recently been published in the December 2015 issue of German History.
The article was also awarded the periodical's "Best Article of 2015 Prize".Read more...
Helen and Dr Katharina Karcher were recently interviewed by Victoria Craw of the Australian News Corporation, in conjunction with a film-screening and panel discussion which they hosted at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on Friday 30 October.Read more...
On 30 October 2015, Helen took part in a film-screening and panel discussion centred around Andres Veiel's award-winning film Der Kick (2006), along with Dr Katharina Karcher, Dr Jeffrey Murer, and Dr Emmanuel Karagiannis. The event formed part of this year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas.Read more...
On 28 October 2015, Helen and Dr Katharina Karcher were interviewed on Chris Mann's 'Drivetime' show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, in conjunction with a film-screening and panel discussion which they hosted at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on Friday 30 October.Read more...
German History journal "Best Article of 2015 Prize"Helen's article 'Surviving Stunde Null: Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich', forthcoming in German History journal, has just been awarded the periodical's "Best Article of 2015 Prize".
The prize, which is awarded by the journal's editorial board, is intended to showcase outstanding work from scholars of German history, whatever their career stage.Read more...
Helen's review of Jason Crouthamel's monograph An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014) has just been published in Reviews in History.Read more...
Further favourable reviews of 'Sparta's German Children'A favourable review of Helen's 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 published in the journal Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte.
'[This] highly readable and precisely-argued volume vividly demonstrates the ways in which clichés of humanistic education can be combined with totalitarian viewpoints...'Read more...
Feature in "The Independent"Helen has recently been featured in an article in The Independent entitled 'Archive video shows Nazi flag flying in Glasgow; Hitler salute in London – but what should we read into it?'
The article, by Kiran Moodley, attempts to understand how, in 1930s Britain, symbols of Hitler's Germany had not yet gained the notoriety and connotations that they possess today.Read more...
On 7 July 2015, Helen gave a lecture to the Rotary Club of Cambridge entitled 'Nazis at The Leys: Public school exchange programmes with the Third Reich'.Read more...