A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
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 …
Our White Rose in Real Time initiative ended with the events of 27 February 1943, but the White Rose’s story continued… In the days, weeks, and months that followed, many others associated with the resistance circle were arrested and interrogated. On 19 April 1943 the second White Rose trial took place in Munich. Once again, …
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 …
We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers for a conference being organised by this year’s White Rose Project Graduate Committee! Rethinking Resistance – An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 23-24 June 2022 | In-person and Online at the University of Oxford Call for Papers With the support of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and …
From the 15th to 27th February 2022 the White Rose Project will again follow the events as they happened in real time through daily posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the first White Rose trials. You can find the posts under the hashtag #whiteroserealtime. Why this initiative? The aim of the White Rose Project is …
We are delighted to be working with the Oxford German Network again this year as part of their annual nationwide German competition, the Oxford German Olympiad! There is one White Rose Project Prize this year, focusing on the resistance leaflets of the White Rose. 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the first four White Rose leaflets, …
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 …
On Tuesday 18 January we held our first student translation seminar of the year! Sixteen students from eleven colleges across the University of Oxford successfully applied to participate in this year’s project. This year’s students will work on translating the pamphlets into new written forms, such as poetry, song lyrics, and short prose. Students will …
We are delighted to announce that our Graduate Committee has been awarded generous support from TORCH’s Critical-Thinking Communities Fund for a new project entitled ‘Rethinking Resistance’! The Critical-Thinking Community ‘Rethinking Resistance’ will investigate questions about the nature of resistance, its agents, and its place in communities of memory across different media, genres, geographical contexts, and …
Call for Student Writers and Translators In 1943 five students and a professor at Munich University were executed. They were members of The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’), a group that wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. To mark the 80th anniversary of the first White Rose pamphlets, and a new publication of the …