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New publication: 'Kadettengeschichten: Exploring the Prussian Cadet-School Story'Helen's essay 'Kadettengeschichten: Exploring the Prussian cadet-school story' has just been published in the catalogue for a new exhibition organised by Durham University's Palace Green Library, entitled Books for Boys: Literacy, Nation and the First World War.
A selection of editions from Helen's comprehensive collection of Prussian cadet-school literature will also be showcased as part of the display. The exhibition, which runs from 27th September 2014 to 11th January 2015, explores boyhood during the earliest years of the twentieth century.Read more...
On 1 August 2014, Helen presented a paper entitled '"The Cadets are Revolting": Reactionary violence, the Freikorps, and the legacy of the “Great” war for the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps' at an international conference entitled 'Perspectives on the "Great War" / Rückblick auf den ersten Weltkrieg', Queen Mary, University of London.Read more...
Helen's review of Moritz Föllmer's monograph Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), has recently been published in the Book Reviews section of the Wiener Library Blog.Read more...
A selection of editions from Helen's comprehensive collection of Prussian cadet-school literature are to be displayed in a forthcoming exhibition at Durham University's Palace Green Library, entitled 'Books for Boys: Heroism, Adventure and Empire at the Dawn of the First World War'. The exhibition is the first in a series linked to the national centenary commemoration of the First World War.Read more...
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...