Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at Durham University, having previously held research fellowships at Cambridge and UCL. She has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history, including the history of education, National Socialism, and classical reception studies. Key publications include Sparta's German Children (2013), Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (ed., 2018), and 'Surviving "Stunde Null": Narrating the Fate of Nazi Elite-school Pupils during the Collapse of the Third Reich', which was awarded German History journal's 'Best Article Prize' in 2015. Recently, she co-founded 'Claiming the Classical', a global research network which maps twenty-first-century political appropriations of the ancient world. She is currently researching the history of everyday life under fascism in interwar Europe.