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

 
 
 
 
 

Events and Conferences

15 October 2024 (2.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Lisa Hellriegel
Writing an Urban History of Sexual Violence: Rape Trials in German and English Cities, 1920s–1960s

GHIL/Online

15 October 2024 (5:30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
The Problem with (Historical) Processes: Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic

Autumn Lecture Series: History of the Social Sciences 1

GHIL/Online

21 October 2024 (5.30pm)

Thyssen Lecture

Gudrun Kraemer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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Call for Papers

 

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.

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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.

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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.

 

Featured Research

 

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]

 

Latest Blogposts

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 Podcast

GHIL Lecture

Matthias Pohlig

Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation
16 September 2024 , 0:58 h



GHIL Lecture

Matthias Pohlig

Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation

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

New Publications

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

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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

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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

Zs 181/2023 (eBook)

GHIL Bulletin

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


Opportunities

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