German Historical Institute London
Library Summer Opening Hours
To all Library users: please be aware that our opening hours will change in July and August. Evening opening should return in September.
Until 30th June: Monday–Friday, 9.30am–9pm
From 1st July to 31st August: Monday-Friday, 9.30am–5pm
7 May 2024 (5:30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Hannah Murphy (King’s College London) and Sarah Schober (University of Zurich)
Artisanal Race-Making in Early Modern Germany (Double Lecture)
GHIL/Online
13 May 2024
Thyssen Lecture
Dhruv Raina (JNU Delhi)
After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
GHIL
21 May 2024 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Charlotte Hoes
Gefesselte Wildnis. Zur Zirkulation von Tieren im 20. Jahrhundert
GHIL/Online
Library
Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm
Summer opening hours: 1st July–31st August, Monday–Friday, 9.30am–5pm
The library is open to anyone with an interest in German history, British-German relations or comparative historiography. There are no membership or joining fees.
New readers need to register for a library card and have a short introductory tour of the library before or during their first visit. Entry after 5pm only with a valid library card.
Collections: Primarily German history from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. At least a third of library resources are English-language materials.
Book Project
Felix Römer
Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain
This month, former GHIL Fellow Felix Römer (HU Berlin) published his award-winning habilitation under the title Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain in our series Publications of the German Historical Institute London.
We had the chance to talk to Felix about his new book and ground-breaking research.
1 May 2024
Blogpost
Mirjam Brusius
Museums Under Construction: On Loss, Disorder, Destruction, and Objects in Storerooms
Archaeological artefacts from the Ottoman Empire have only recently attracted attention in current debates over decolonization and restitution. Mirjam S. Brusius of the German Historical Institute London is researching the excavation of objects, the role of the local population, and why certain items have languished for decades in the storerooms of European museums.
Category: GHIL Fellows, Research
15 April 2024
Blogpost
Elisa Heuser
The Welsh Fasting Girl: A Morbid Spectacle
The story of Sarah Jacob is a tragic one. On 17 December 1869, when she was not yet 13 years old, she died of starvation. There was no shortage of food or unwillingness to provide her with food, had she asked for it. Her family, trained nurses, and male doctors were around her when she passed away, but they all quite literally watched her die…
Category: Research, Scholarships
Thyssen Lecture
Sebastian Conrad
Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
1 May 2024
, 0:50 h
Thyssen Lecture
Sebastian Conrad
Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
Interview
Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König
Bad pennies and revolting peasants:
a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
2 April 2024
, 0:19 h
Interview
Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König
Bad pennies and revolting peasants:
a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
GHIL Lecture
Philipp Rössner
Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:
Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
2 April 2024
, 0:41 h
GHIL Lecture
Philipp Rössner
Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:
Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
Miri Rubin
‘I am black’: Medieval Commentators and the Meanings of Blackness
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2022
London : German Historical Institute London, 2023
Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann (eds.)
Living the German Revolution, 1918-19
Expectations, Experiences, Responses
Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023
Felix Römer
Inequality Knowledge
The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd 89
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024
Featured Article
Kiri Kolt
Go the Distance: Concepts of Migration and Origin in the Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Hungarian Notary
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 27–43
Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer
Featured Article
Lane B. Baker
Marginal People, Marginal History: A Historiography of Medieval Romani Immigration
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 44–75
Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer
Scholarship
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
6 month stipendiary fellowship, starting 1 October 2024
The Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and the German Historical Institute London intend to appoint a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
London
Closing date for applications: 15 May 2024