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

 
 
 
 

Opportunities

GHIL-MWF Joint Fellowship on The British Empire and the History of Colonialism

Joint fellowship for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD) whose research is situated in the broad field of the British Empire and the History of Colonialism

Start date: 2026 (3 months)

London/New Delhi


Closing date for applications: 26 September 2025 (23.59 hours Central European Time)


GHIL Building

Renovation Works and Closure

The GHIL building, including the library, will be closed for renovation works until early 2026. 

Among other works, our reception space and the seminar and common rooms will receive a face-lift, and a previously hidden Octagon room on a the ground floor will become a new meeting space. 

Please bear with us during this unavoidable period of closure. We look forward to welcoming you to the new and improved GHIL next year!

Opportunities

Scholarships

For postgraduate students, Habilitanden and postdocs at German universities who wish carry out research in Britain

Awarded for a period of up to three months (only full months), depending on the requirements of the research project
 

Closing date for applications: 30 September 2025


 
Events & Conferences: Line drawing of a wall calendar, in a circle.

Events and Conferences

23 September 2025 (2.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Civic Protest Movements and the Idea of Unification
Jugend, Migration und Soziale Arbeit
Lea Antonia Middell and Max Schellbach

GHIL/Online

30 September 2025 (2pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Eastern Internationalism in Global Weimar
Die Eisenbahninstandhaltungswerke in Parel (Indien)
Ausländische Perspektiven auf das nationalsozialistische Deutschland
Hanna Janatka, Lukas Rosenberg and Anna Strommenger

GHIL/Online

8–10 October 2025

Workshop

Medieval History Seminar

Swedenborg House (20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH)

 
Research: Line drawing of a round magnifying glass in a circle, with the handle of the magnifying glass breaking through the circle.

Our Research

 
 
Portrait painting of Queen Elizabeth I, dressed in her coronation robes and holding the orb and sceptre. This painting dates to ca. 1600, and is probably a copy of the lost original from 1559. It is part of the National Portrait Gallery's collections.

Research Area

British History

Early printed and coloured map of Europe.

Research Area

European Perspectives

Engraving of Austen Henry Layard's excavations at Nineveh, showing the removal of a pair of lamassu (winged, human headed bulls).

Research Area

Colonial and Global History

 
 
 
Blog: Line drawing of a typewriter, in a circle. The page sticking out of the top of the typewriter breaks through the circle.

Lastest Blogposts

The corner of the GHIL building facing on Bloomsbury Square and Great Russell Street. A blurry man with a shoulder bag walks by in the direction of the British Museum.

12 September 2025

Blogpost

Michéle Kraft

From Amboyna to Boston–How Massacres Become Media Events

Category: Research, Scholarships


29 August 2025

Blogpost

Fabian Weber

Compassion Mobilized: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Politics of Animal Welfare in Germany, 1945-2002

Category: Research, Scholarships


Podcast: Line drawing circle containing a microphone below a pair of headphones

GHIL Podcast

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
5 September 2025 , 0:18 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger
5 September 2025 , 0:47 h

Thomas Rowlandson caricature, in which fever (a hairy monster) and ague (a snake-like creature) attack a man huddled in front of a fireplace. On a pale brown background, with the GHIL podcast logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

GHIL Joint Lecture

‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830

Stefanie Gänger

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025 , 0:30 h

Tower blocks against a cloudy sky. On a light grey background, with the GHIL logo of microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities

Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König

Online Catalogue Research: Line drawing of a book surrounded by electrical circuits, in a circle.

New Publications

GHIL

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (May 2025)

Cover image for the publication of Gudrun Krämer's 2024 Thyssen lecture.

Gudrun Krämer

Local modernity: agency, entanglement, and the making of the modern Middle East

Lokale Moderne: Agency, Austausch und die Enstehung des modernen Mittleren Ostens

Book cover for Thiago P. Barbosa "Racializing Caste". Image of Indian anthropologist Irawati Karve, whole cover overlayed with red. Text in white.

Thiago P. Barbosa

Racializing Caste: Anthropology between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970)