Helen Roche

Helen Roche is currently Assistant Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. She has published extensively on 19th- and 20th-century German history, including the history of education, National Socialism, and philhellenism. Relevant publications include Sparta’s German Children: The Ideal of Ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920 and in National Socialist Elite Schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945 (2013), ‘The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism’, in The Historical Journal (2018), and Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (ed., 2018). She is also the founder, with Naoise Mac Sweeney, of ‘Claiming the Classical‘, a global research network which maps 21st-century political appropriations of classical antiquity.