On Wednesday 22 June 2022, members of the White Rose Project were invited to speak at the Chalke Valley History Festival – the UK’s biggest festival devoted to history! Dr Alex Lloyd chose to begin the story not in Munich, but in nearby Salisbury where her grandmother – born in the same year as White …
Book Launch: ‘Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets’
On Tuesday 15 March 2022, Alex Lloyd’s new book Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022) was launched at an event in St Edmund Hall’s Old Dining Hall. The White Rose resistance pamphlets are included in full in the book, translated by students at the University of Oxford. These translations were …
New Book Announcement: ‘Defying Hitler’
We are delighted to announce a new book on the White Rose: Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd. The book was published on 18 February 2022 by Bodleian Library Publishing. The White Rose (‘die Weiße Rose’) resistance circle were a group of students and a Professor at the University of Munich who, in …
Dr Alex Lloyd to speak at the Oxford Literary Festival 2022
Dr Alex Lloyd (Fellow by Special Election in German, St Edmund Hall) will be taking part in this year’s Oxford Literary Festival on 30 March, speaking about her new book, ‘Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets’ (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022). Find further information and book tickets here. The White Rose (‘die Weiße Rose’) resistance circle was …
Translating the White Rose Pamphlets
The student translators of the White Rose resistance pamphlets introduce their experiences and approach. Over the course of eight months, from October to May 2019, we worked together to produce a new translation of the White Rose resistance pamphlets. We approached this project from a number of different backgrounds and perspectives. Some of us had …
New Book now available!
On Friday 14 June 2019, over fifty people gathered at St Edmund Hall to celebrate the launch of The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2019). This volume includes facsimiles of the original White Rose pamphlets, transcriptions of the German texts, and new English translations by undergraduate students at the University of …
New Book Announcement
The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2019) will be published next month. This edited volume includes facsimiles of the White Rose pamphlets and transcriptions of the German alongside a new English translation. While there are many versions of the pamphlets in English, the translations included here are the result of a …