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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 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...
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...
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...
On 8 June 2018, Helen organised a one-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled 'What Remains? Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day', at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Read more...
On 11 February 2018, Italian daily paper Il Manifesto featured Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in an article entitled 'L'antichità smontata e ricomposta: Nazismo/Fascismo - un "Companion" da Brill'.Read more...
New Book: Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyBrill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, edited by Helen Roche and Kyriakos Demetriou, has just been published by Brill.
The volume provides the first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. The essays contained within explore how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.Read more...
Just out: MACAT Analyses of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Hitler Myth'Helen's analyses of Ian Kershaw's The Hitler Myth and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands have recently been published by Routledge in the Macat Library series of guides to classic works of scholarship.
"With a growing list of over 180 titles across a broad range of subject areas, Macat works with leading academics from the world’s top universities to produce new analysesRead more...
On 25 March 2017, Helen spoke at a conference which took place at the House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, entitled "Protagonists of Political Mythology: How do Individuals and Collectives become History?"Read more...
On 24 October 2016, Helen gave a public lecture at Nordhausen's Museum Tabakspeicher on 'Napola Ilfeld and other Nazi Elite Schools in Central Germany', which attracted a record-breaking audience of 130, as well as gaining a variety of local media coverage.Read more...