Helen Roche | |
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Born | Helen Roche |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Durham University |
Helen Roche is a British historian and an associate professor in modern European cultural history at Durham University. [1]
Roche attended Leweston School in Dorset before studying classics at Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge,from 2004 to 2012,where she completed her doctorate under the supervision of Paul Cartledge,Robin Osborne,and Brendan Simms. [2] She held research fellowships at Lucy Cavendish College,Cambridge and the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London before taking up a permanent post at Durham University. Her research is in German history,classical reception,the comparative study of fascism,the history of education,and related areas. [3] At Durham University,she is an associate fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study. [4]
In 2021,Roche published The Third Reich’s Elite Schools:A History of the Napolas. This study of the German National Political Institutes of Education has been praised as an important contribution to the history of Nazi Germany. [5] Several British newspapers reported on Roche’s uncovering the links between the Napolas and elite British private schools in the 1930s. [6] [7] In March 2022,she was interviewed on this subject on the Free Thinking programme on BBC Radio 3. [8]