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.
Summer opening times: Monday-Friday, 9.30am–5pm
2 July 2024 (5:30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Christine Krüger (University of Bonn)
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective. The Example of Germany and Britain
GHIL/Online
4–6 July 2024
Conference
Cultures of Compromise and Liberal Democracy after World War II
GHIL
9 July 2024 (1pm)
Special Event
Samira Junaid (Bengaluru) and Jolita Zabarskaitė (Berlin)
Brown Bag Lunch Chat: ‘Greater India’ from the perspective of South India and Malaya from the late colonial period to the early 1960s
GHIL
Call for Papers
Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500
22-23 May 2025
Organizers: Mariana Bodnaruk (Masaryk University, Brno), Stephan Bruhn (GHIL) and Michael Eber (University of Oxford)
This conference will focus on trans saints, monachoparthenoi, saints who are initially described as female by their hagiographers, but transition to a male (often monastic) identity, and are present in every late antique and medieval Christian tradition.
GHIL
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2024
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
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.
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 25 July)) [Read more]
Maximiliane Berger, Mirjam Hähnle, Anna Leyrer (eds.), Männer über sich: Wissenschaft – Biografie – Geschlecht (Göttingen 2024) [Read here]
17 June 2024
Blogpost
Felicitas Remer
‘Political Balance’ or ‘Natural Growth’? The British Mandate, Meir Dizengoff, and the Struggle over Tel Aviv Port in the 1920s and 1930s
On 24 February 1938, a crowd of 30,000 onlookers gathered in the rain awaiting the official opening of Tel Aviv port to passenger traffic. […] The city’s port had been a project long in the making, and it held great significance not only for Tel Aviv, but for the Zionist project as a whole…
Category: Research, Scholarships
3 June 2024
Blogpost
Stephan Bruhn
Social Inequality: Early Medieval Perspectives on a Modern-Day Challenge
Social inequalities are among the most pressing challenges facing us today. Yet they also affected the past in many different ways. Investigating historical inequalities can sharpen our understanding of present-day phenomena. This is true even of an era whose social order no longer exists: the Middle Ages…
Category: GHIL Fellows, Research
GHIL Joint Lecture
Stefanie Middendorf
Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
20 June 2024
, 0:49 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
Stefanie Middendorf
Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
Interview
Stefanie Middendorf
States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency
20 June 2024
, 0:13 h
Interview
Stefanie Middendorf
States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency
Interview
Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
23 May 2024
, 0:13 h
Interview
Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
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 : Oxford University Press, 2024
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
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
Prizes
Prize of the German Historical Institute London
The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university). The Prize is 1,000 Euros. To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2024
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: 27 September 2024 (23.59 hours Central European Time)