German Historical Institute London

17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
United Kingdom

Phone: Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050

URI: www.ghil.ac.uk

 

German Historical Institute London

 
 
 
 

Vacancies

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship

Das DHIL und das International History Department der LSE schreiben zum 1.9.2026 und zum 1.9.2027 jeweils für die Dauer von einem Jahr das Gerda Henkel-Visiting Professorship
für den Themenbereich Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in europäischer, kolonialer und/oder globaler Perspektive aus.
 

GHIL/LSE


Ausschreibungsschluss: 31/03/2025


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Prizes

Prize of the German Historical Institute London 2024

We are delighted to announce that the joint winners are:

Dr. phil. Agnes Piekacz (Bielefeld University)
and
Dr Rory Hanna (University of Sheffield)

 

Events and Conferences

25 March 2025 (2.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Benedikt Sepp
Flugbahnen. Munitionsstandardisierungen im langen 20. Jahrhundert

GHIL/Online

25 March 2025 (5.30pm)

GHIL Joint Lecture

Isabella Löhr (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin)
The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s

GHIL/Online

8 April 2025 (2.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Christin Hansen
Internationale Beteiligung von Frauen am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg: Konzepte und Praktiken weiblicher Partizipation in der Zwischenkriegszeit

GHIL/Online

 

Our Research

 
 

Research Area

British History

Research Area

European Perspectives

Research Area

Colonial and Global History

 
 
 

Lastest Blogposts

17 March 2025

Blogpost

Karolin Wetjen

Collecting Weather Data: The Use of Scientific Instruments in Nineteenth-Century Climate Research

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 March 2025

Blogpost

Felix Wessel

The End of the Guilds in Syria

Category: Research, Scholarships


GHIL Podcast

Special lecture

Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann

Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War
21 March 2025 , 1:03 h



Special lecture

Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann

Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War

Special lecture

Roland Wenzlhuemer

Raise, Reuse, Recycle
Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Royal History Society Lecture
24 January 2025 , 0:49 h



Special lecture

Roland Wenzlhuemer

Raise, Reuse, Recycle
Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Interview

Julia Angster and Kim König

Globalization: a threat to democracy?
18 November 2024 , 0:20 h



Interview

Julia Angster and Kim König

Globalization: a threat to democracy?

New Publications

GHIL

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (November 2024)

María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler (eds.)

The Officer and the People: Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe

Ole Münch

Rag Fair: A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850