Author: Helen Roche

On 21 April 2020, Helen gave a zoom seminar presentation on Napola exchanges with U.S. academies to an upper-level history class at St Andrew's School, Delaware.Read more...

Helen’s most recent edited volume, the Brill Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (2018) has received another extremely favourable review in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR).

"In the last two decades, a growing number of monographs, articles and conference proceedings dedicated to the use and abuse of the classical past have seen the light. This volume is a welcome addition to that body of work and offers fresh perspectives on the (mis)appropriation of the classical past by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.Read more...

On 24 January 2020, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Back to the Ancient Greek Future? Greek Antiquity as Paradigm in National Socialist Classical Education’ at an international conference on 'Writing Ancient History in the Interwar Period', Newcastle University.Read more...

Helen’s guest-edited special issue of Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, entitled ‘Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day’, has just been published by Brill. The edition includes Helen's article, ‘Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity?’ This special issue is based on contributions to an interdisciplinary workshop which was held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 8 June 2018.Read more...

Presented at an international conference entitled Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 16 December 2019.Read more...

On 16 December 2019, Helen presented a keynote paper entitled ‘Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich’ at an international conference on Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’, held at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, and hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek andRead more...

in Die Klosterkammer Hannover 1931-1955: Eine Mittelbehörde zwischen wirtschaftlicher Rationalität und Politisierung, ed. Detlef Schmiechen Ackermann et al., Göttingen (Wallstein), 2018, pp. 605-26.

This chapter delineates the history of the Klosterschule in Ilfeld, and its transformation into a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt (Napola). The Klosterkammer Hannover's role in the running of the school and its support of the Napola after 1935 is explored, as well as its involvement with other putative Napola foundation projects.Read more...

On 14 November 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)’ at an international conference on the theme Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, held at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.Read more...

Helen's review of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), has just been published in History journal.Read more...

Presented at an international conference entitled Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 14 November 2019.Read more...