A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
The White Rose Project has received lots of emails about National History Day again this year! While we’re sadly not able to reply to everyone individually, we asked Dr Alexandra Lloyd (Director of the Project and author of Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022)) to comment on the White Rose. If …
The White Rose Project was recently contacted by two 8th-grade students at the Singapore American School. They had been learning about the White Rose resistance group and, having read The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance (2019), they got in touch to discuss some of the questions they had about the resistance group and their legacy. They created …
*Please note: this event has been postponed until further notice.* Join us on 17 March for ‘The White Rose in Text and Song’ – a recital of German Lieder interspersed with readings from the White Rose members’ pamphlets, letters, and diaries in English 5pm-6.30pm at the Shulman Auditorium in The Queen’s College (High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AW).
On Friday 21 February Dr Alex Lloyd was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight. She spoke about the White Rose group and the project’s collaboration with SANSARA which took place on 22 February, the 77th anniversary of the first White Rose trials and executions. One of the White Rose group’s letters from prison …
*Please note: this event has been postponed until further notice.* On 18 March we’ll welcome Kip Wilson to Oxford! Kip will read from and discuss her award-winning Young Adult novel-in-verse ‘White Rose’! Here’s an excerpt to give you a flavour: FEBRUARY 18, 1943 Gestapo Headquarters The cars screech to a halt, officers pull us out by …
Exciting news! The White Rose Project is able to continue next academic year thanks to generous funding from The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. As a Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Dr Alex Lloyd will work with the Weiße Rose Stiftung (White Rose Foundation) in Munich. Its Chairperson, Dr Hildegard Kronawitter, provided the foreword for our …