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

 
 
 
 

Library

Summer Opening Hours

The Library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.

New readers: please come in to register before 3pm
 

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)


Prizes

Prize of the German Historical Institute London 2025

The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German, British or British colonial history, British-German relations or British-German comparative history.

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2025


 

Events and Conferences

29 July–1 August 2025

Summer School

Summer School
Nature, Capitalism, and Empire

GHIL

26 August 2025 (2pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Geena Carlisle and Claudia Roesch
Two talks

GHIL/Online

9 September 2025 (3.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Ute Kemmerling
Ajmer – ein muslimischer Pilgerort unter kolonialer Beobachtung in Britisch-Indien (1818-1947)

GHIL/Online

 

Our Research

 
 

Research Area

British History

Research Area

European Perspectives

Research Area

Colonial and Global History

 
 
 

Lastest Blogposts

22 July 2025

Blogpost

Roundtable Discussion

Expanding the Archive: Fact and Fiction, Reading against the Grain, and Formats of Engagement

Mirjam Brusius, Mirjam Hähnle, Mallika Leuzinger, Markus Mößlang, Ole Münch, Michael Schaich, Indra Sengupta, Pascale Siegrist, Clemens Villinger, Christina von Hodenberg

Category: GHIL Fellows


9 July 2025

Blogpost

Florian Balbiani

Knowledge Production between Mission, University, and Colonial Administration: Swahili Studies in Britain and Germany 1840s–1940s

Category: Research, Scholarships


GHIL Podcast

Interview

Achim Landwehr

Mind the void
The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
15 July 2025 , 0:25 h



Interview

Achim Landwehr

Mind the void
The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe

GHIL Lecture

Achim Landwehr

The Hole Story
Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
15 July 2025 , 0:46 h



GHIL Lecture

Achim Landwehr

The Hole Story
Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity

Special Lecture

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
2 July 2025 , 1:07 h



Special Lecture

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise

New Publications

GHIL

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

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

Thiago P. Barbosa

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