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On 28 May 2014, Helen acted as discussant for the Cambridge Field Notes Seminar, in response to a paper by Dr. Martijn Eickhoff, entitled 'Witness to a Greater Germanic Past? The SS-Ahnenerbe and the Archaeological Research Sites of Dolni Věstonice and Solone'.Read more...
On 22-23 May 2014, Helen Roche and Ingo Gildenhard hosted the Cambridge Craven Seminar, a two-day symposium which took place at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.Read more...
On 23 April 2014, a panel organised by Helen Roche and Lara Day, entitled 'Another Greece: Unexplored Aspects of 19th and 20th-century German Philhellenism', took place at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2014, International Institute for Social History, Vienna, as part of the 'Culture Network'.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...
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...
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...
On 23 January 2013, Helen gave an invited lecture at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Unversität Münster, under the aegis of the Centre for the History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean (Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums).Read more...
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Helen's article, 'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys', has recently been published in the 6th volume of Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers / Jahrbuch für britisch-deutsche Kulturbeziehungen.
The article looks at a series of exchanges which took place between the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten and British public schools, between 1934 and 1939.Read more...