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Summer Opening Hours
The Library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.
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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
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
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
Interview
Achim Landwehr
Mind the void
The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
15 July 2025
, 0:25 h
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
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