German Historical Institute London
21 October 2024 (5.30pm)
Thyssen Lecture
Gudrun Kraemer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
GHIL
29 October 2024 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Karolin Wetjen
Skalierungen von Raum und Zeit. Klimawissen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
GHIL/Online
5 November 2024 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Philipp Höhn
Maritime Gewalt, Marginalisierung und Markt im spätmittelalterlichen England
GHIL/Online
Call for Papers
Medieval History Seminar 2025
8–10 October 2025
Organizers: German Historical Institute London and German Historical Institute Washington
Conveners: Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews)
The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and German universities for three days of scholarly discussion and collaboration.
GHIL
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2025
Call for Papers
16th Workshop on Early Modern German History
6 June 2025
Organizers: German History Society, German Historical Institute London and GHI Washington
Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St. Andrews), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Alison Rowlands (University of Essex) and Mirjam Haehnle (GHI London)
First held in 2002, this workshop has established itself as the principal forum in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland for new research on early modern German-speaking Central Europe. It fosters exchange on work-in-progress between post-graduates and experienced scholars in a relaxed atmosphere.
GHIL
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2025
Library
Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-8pm
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.
Publications
Recent publications by our historians
Christina von Hodenberg ; translated by Rachel Ward, The Other '68: A Social History of West Germany's Revolt (Oxford 2024) [Read more]
(originally published as: Das andere Achtundsechzig: Gesellschaftsgeschichte einer Revolte (Munich 2018) [Read more]
Fiammetta Balestracci, Christina von Hodenberg, and Isabel Richter (eds.), An Era of Value Change: The Long 1970s in Europe. Studies of the German Historical Institute London (Oxford 2024 (published 8 August)) [Read more]
Maximiliane Berger, Mirjam Hähnle, Anna Leyrer (eds.), Männer über sich: Wissenschaft – Biografie – Geschlecht (Göttingen 2024) [Read here]
10 October 2024
Blogpost
Catharina Hänsel
‘The problem is organising time, not work.’ : Exploring Working Time Regulations and the Determination of ‘Scientific Wages’ in Ahmedabad through the Archives of the Wellcome Collection, London
How do we organize working time? This question has repeatedly come to the fore, particularly at historical junctures of technological change. Following the Second World War, countries in both the Global North and South sought to find new answers to problems of human–machine interactions. The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ studies on sociotechnical systems have recently attracted renewed attention…
Category: Research, Scholarships
2 September 2024
Blogpost
Flemming Falz
‘Consider Margaret Thatcher’s premiership as ground zero for the mess we are in now.’ The British Housing Crisis in Non-Fiction
The UK is in the midst of a housing crisis that is causing hardship for millions of Britons. Over the past few years, the worsening situation has been reflected in the market for non-fiction books. In a small bookshop in north London, I counted more than half a dozen new titles dealing with the housing crisis —and a more systematic search brings the number up to at least fifteen published in the last five years.…
Category: Research, Scholarships
GHIL Lecture
Matthias Pohlig
Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation
16 September 2024
, 0:58 h
Interview
Matthias Pohlig, Michael Schaich and Kim König
Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation
A simple choice?
16 September 2024
, 0:21 h
Interview
Matthias Pohlig, Michael Schaich and Kim König
Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation
A simple choice?
Interview
Radhika Singha, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
Criminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955
1 August 2024
, 0:16 h
Interview
Radhika Singha, Indra Sengupta and Kim König
Criminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955
Ole Münch
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Studies in British and Imperial History. Vol. 10
New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2024
Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery and Falko Schnicke (eds.)
Global Royal Families
Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024
Willibald Steinmetz
Comparisons that Hurt: The Politics of Outrage from the Reformation to the Holocaust
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2023
London : German Historical Institute London, 2023
Featured Article
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
German Zeitgeschichte from the Margins: The Post-War Experience of Nazi Victims
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (May 2024), pages 3–25
Featured Article
Pascale Siegrist
A Common Vision of Geography? Pëtr Kropotkin and the Royal Geographical Society, 1876–1921
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (May 2024), pages 26–47
Scholarships
GHIL-MWF Tandem Fellowship on The British Empire and the History of Colonialism
GHI London-India Research Programme
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Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies New Delhi
Tandem Fellowship: one scholar each from Germany and India
Primarily for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD) working on the history of the British Empire and colonial India
Start date: 2025
Duration: 3 months per scholar
London/New Delhi
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2024 (23.59 hours Central European Time)
Student workshops
Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2025
The GHIL’s 29th Postgraduate Research Students’ Conference will take place on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 January 2025. The conference is intended for postgraduate research scholars working on German history from the Middle Ages to the present at a UK or Irish university, and aims to give them the opportunity to present their work-in-progress and to discuss their research with other students working in the same field.
London
Closing date for applications: 15 November 2024