Presented at the German History Society Annual Conference, King’s College London, 4 September 2019.
Author: Helen Roche
Invitation to speak at the Wewelsburg
On 14 September 2019, Helen gave a talk at the Wewelsburg as part of a symposium entitled “Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht”, alongside historians Mary Fulbrook, Caroline Pearce and Helen Boak.Read more...
"Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft": Austauschprogramme zwischen den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten und den Britischen “Public Schools”– eine Fallstudie
Presented at the 11. Wissenschaftliches Symposium: Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, 14 September 2019.Read more...
'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than the political relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. This review essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts the notion of a Hellenophile Sonderweg when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship.Read more...
Appointment to Academic Advisory Board, 'Nordhausen April 1945'
Helen has been appointed to the academic advisory board of a project entitled ‘Nordhausen April 1945: Hintergründe, Opfer, Erinnerung’, initiated by Nordhausen Town Council and its Mayor, Kai Buchmann, to research the genesis of the Allied bombing raid which took place in April 1945 and destroyed the whole of Nordhausen’s medieval city, and its ramifications in post-war GDR memory culture.Read more...
Invitation to speak at the Freie Universität Berlin
On 22 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazi elite-school pupils as youth ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich’ at an international conference on Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Studies
On 19 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Back to the Ancient Future! Classicising National Imaginaries in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’ as part of a seminar series entitled ‘We the People? Community Beyond the State’, hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
On 8 February 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Archival Violence and Violent Institutions: Researching the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps (1818-1920)’ at an international interdisciplinary conference on The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power, hosted by Durham University’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.Read more...
Nazi Elite-school Pupils as Youth Ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich
Presented at an international conference entitled Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, 22 March 2019.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham University
On 30 January 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler’s Germany’ to the Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics, Durham University.Read more...