I retired from my post as Head of History at the University of Hertfordshire in October 2013. I still maintain my interest in German history, in particular in the history of women. My book on 'Women in the Weimar Republic' was published by the University of Manchester Press in 2013. For more information, please see http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719088193.
This chapter seeks to explore the multiple roles played by women during the German Revolution of ... more This chapter seeks to explore the multiple roles played by women during the German Revolution of 1918 and 1919. Much of the historical focus published on the revolution to date has concentrated on male protagonists, revolutionary leaders, politicians or military men, and essentially the only woman to have received much historical attention has been Rosa Luxemburg. This paper reassesses women’s role in Berlin, Munich, Brunswick and elsewhere; it considers women’s actions in socialist political parties, on the streets, in demonstrations and as victims of violence. Using memoirs, diaries and contemporary accounts, this paper contextualises women’s revolutionary activity within the political, economic and social upheaval of Germany at the end of the First World War and seeks to give women a more prominent place in the historical narrative of the German Revolution.
Alfred Kelly, The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, Chape... more Alfred Kelly, The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 185pp. Geoffrey G. Field, Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. 565pp. Gary D. Stark, Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 327pp. David Clay Large, The Politics of Law and Order: A History of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr, 1918-1921, Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1980. 87pp. Helen Boak
This chapter seeks to explore the multiple roles played by women during the German Revolution of ... more This chapter seeks to explore the multiple roles played by women during the German Revolution of 1918 and 1919. Much of the historical focus published on the revolution to date has concentrated on male protagonists, revolutionary leaders, politicians or military men, and essentially the only woman to have received much historical attention has been Rosa Luxemburg. This paper reassesses women’s role in Berlin, Munich, Brunswick and elsewhere; it considers women’s actions in socialist political parties, on the streets, in demonstrations and as victims of violence. Using memoirs, diaries and contemporary accounts, this paper contextualises women’s revolutionary activity within the political, economic and social upheaval of Germany at the end of the First World War and seeks to give women a more prominent place in the historical narrative of the German Revolution.
Alfred Kelly, The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, Chape... more Alfred Kelly, The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 185pp. Geoffrey G. Field, Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. 565pp. Gary D. Stark, Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 327pp. David Clay Large, The Politics of Law and Order: A History of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr, 1918-1921, Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1980. 87pp. Helen Boak
'It is hard to think', claim the editors of the third volume in a proposed series of seventeen of... more 'It is hard to think', claim the editors of the third volume in a proposed series of seventeen of Rosa Luxemburg's complete works, 'of a major Marxist theoretician who wrote so much and so directly about the character of a revolution unfolding before their eyes', (p. xvi). Luxemburg was a prolific writer, writing under her own name, under pseudonyms and
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