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Lunchtime Lecture at the Cambridge Rotary ClubLunchtime Lecture at the Cambridge Rotary Club

On 7 July 2015, Helen gave a lunchtime lecture to the Rotary Club of Cambridge, entitled 'Nazis at the Leys: British public school exchange programmes with the Third Reich'. The lecture explored the exchanges which took place between the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas) and a number of British public schools during the 1930s, including The Leys School in Cambridge.

The talk was one in a series of general-interest lectures hosted by the Club throughout the year, and was well attended by local Rotarians.Read more...

Nazis at The Leys: Public school exchange programmes with the Third Reich

Guest lecture, presented to the Rotary Club of Cambridge, 7 July 2015.Read more...

Sparta's German Children: The idealisation of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps and at the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten

Guest lecture, presented to the Forschungskolloquium der Abteilung Historische Bildungsforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 4 June 2015.Read more...

Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt

Presented at a conference entitled 'ExpertInnen Workshop: Die Klosterkammer in der NS-Zeit - Relevante Fragen, Quellenlage, vorläufige Thesen', Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 17 April 2015.Read more...

The Challenges of Engaging with Childhood under the Nazi Regime

Presented at an international conference on Challenges in the History of Childhood, Queen Mary, University of London, 16 January 2015.Read more...

"Books for Boys" Exhibition at Palace Green Library, University of Durham"Books for Boys" Exhibition at Palace Green Library, University of Durham

From 27th September 2014 to 18th January 2015, a selection of editions from Helen's comprehensive collection of Prussian cadet-school literature were recently displayed as part of an exhibition at Durham University's Palace Green Library, entitled 'Books for Boys: Heroism, Adventure and Empire at the Dawn of the First World War'.Read more...

"When the Nazis came to Dauntsey"When the Nazis came to Dauntsey's": Lecture at Dauntsey's School

On 18 November 2014, Helen gave a lecture, entitled 'When the Nazis came to Dauntsey's', to the 4th and 5th Form History Society and other interested members of the school community at Dauntsey's School, West Lavington, Wiltshire.

Dick Hargreaves, a ninety-five-year-old former pupil who participated in the exchange programme, was also present.Read more...

Narrating the Nostoi of the Napolaner: Nazi elite-school pupils' travels during the collapse of the Third Reich

Presented at a conference on War, Travel, Travel Writing, University of East Anglia, 29 November 2014.Read more...

When the Nazis came to Dauntsey's…

Guest lecture, presented to the 4th and 5th form History Society, Dauntsey's School, 18 November 2014.Read more...

Active Agents or Passive Witnesses? Napola-pupils' encounters with Jewish persecution and the Holocaust

Presented at the Modern German History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 17 November 2014.Read more...