Author: Helen Roche
Keynote presentation, presented virtually at the launch conference of the European Classical Reception Research Network, St. Andrews, 29 May 2021.Read more...
Helen has been appointed as a member of the advisory board and organising committee for the online conference Thermopylae 2500, commemorating the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae.Read more...
On 11 November 2020, Helen Roche and Sam Agbamu hosted a round table discussion on behalf of the 'Claiming the Classical' Research Network, as part of an international zoom conference on 'Classical Controversies', held at Leiden University, Netherlands.Read more...
On 6 November 2020, Helen organised the annual Durham-Münster Postgraduate Workshop - part of an ongoing collaboration between the History Departments at Durham and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.Read more...
Helen's review of Martin Gutmann's monograph Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), has just been published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association.Read more...
Helen's review of Paul Fox's The Image of the Soldier in German Military Culture, 1871-1933 (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), has just been published in Central European History journal.Read more...
Public lecture, given on zoom as part of the Gala Theatre's 'History Now' lecture series, Durham, 23 November 2020.Read more...
Zoom presentation, given to upper-level history pupils at St Andrew's School, Delaware, 21 April 2020.Read more...
Helen has recently been nominated for the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.
The prizes are awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact, and whose future research career is deemed to be exceptionally promising.Read more...
Masculinity and the German First World War Experience: A Secret HistoryReview of Jason Crouthamel's An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), in Reviews in History.
In his classic thriller Greenmantle, first published in 1916, John Buchan describes his hero Richard Hannay's first encounter with his adversary, the German officer Colonel Ulrich von Stumm, in a fashion which hints at a hidden strain of sexual deviance within the German armed forces:Read more...