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.
This study of the German National Political Institutes of Education has been praised as an important contribution to the history of Nazi Germany.
[6][7] In March 2022, she was interviewed on this subject on the Free Thinking programme on BBC Radio 3.