Author: Helen Roche
'Inhumane propaganda, humanely analysed?'Review of David B. Dennis' Inhumanities. Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Reviews in History.
For the past few years, David B. Dennis has had the unenviable task of steeping himself in the (turgid, yet strangely compelling) prose of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party’s major propaganda organ, and the Third Reich’s dailyRead more...
Presented at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham, 22 June 2013.Read more...
On 17 June 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist Educators’ Troubled Relationship with Humanism and the Philhellenist Tradition' at a conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge.Read more...
On 29 May 2013, Helen presented a paper to the Classics Department at Reading University.Read more...
Presented at an international conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge, 17 June 2013.Read more...
On 24 May 2013, Helen gave a public lecture at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Russell Square, London.Read more...
Review of 'Contested Commemorations' by Benjamin ZiemannReview of Veterans and Weimar Political Culture, by Benjamin Ziemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The English Historical Review 131 (553), December 2016, pp. 1569-71.
Views of the Weimar Republic as essentially anarchic, unloved and unmourned have been extensively questioned in recent scholarship. Still, popular pronouncements tend to perpetuate such impressions – witness one critic of a recent exhibition, who began with the statement that ‘Nobody in Germany liked the Weimar Republic’. Read more...
On 17 May 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Blüte und Zerfall"?: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in National Socialist Racial Ideology' at an international conference held at the Central European University, Budapest.Read more...
History's proximity? Crisis and Colonisation in Greece – and the Greek ImaginationReview of Daniel M. Knight, History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Sheila Lecoeur, Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), in Reviews in History.
There were times during the resurgence of the economic crisis in 2015 when it seemed as if 'Greek-bashing' had become a pan-European pastime. In this fraught international context, Daniel Knight’s first monograph provides a salutary reminder of the human consequences of austerity.Read more...
Public lecture, given at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London, 24 May 2013.Read more...