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On 24 May 2013, Helen gave a public lecture at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Russell Square, London.Read more...
On 17 May 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Blüte und Zerfall"?: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in National Socialist Racial Ideology' at an international conference held at the Central European University, Budapest.Read more...
On 4 May 2013, Helen co-organised a one-day colloquium on 'Greece and/or Rome', which was held at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, as part of the Faculty's regular series of 'Classical Reception Discussion Group' seminars and colloquia.Read more...
On 30 April 2013, Helen presented a talk on her recent research at one of Lucy Cavendish College's Anna Bidder Research Evenings.Read more...
On 23 April 2013, Helen gave a talk on her recently published monograph to the German department at Swansea University.Read more...
On 5 April 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Goebbels' Grecian Obsession: Philhellenism and the leaders of the Third Reich' at the Classical Association Conference 2013, University of Reading.Read more...
On 22 March 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys' at an international conference on Anglo-German Perceptions and Prejudices since 1800, University of Cambridge.Read more...
On 20 March 2013, Helen gave a talk to GCSE students at Soham Village College, a specialist Technology and Languages College which gained Academy status in 2011.Read more...
On 16 March 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Kadettengeschichten: Exploring the Prussian cadet-school story' at an international conference entitled 'Approaching War (Europe): Childhood, Culture and the First World War, 1880-1919', University of Newcastle.Read more...
New monograph publication: 'Sparta's German Children'A monograph based on Helen's doctoral research, entitled 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 just been published by the Classical Press of Wales.
"From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta..."Read more...