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

CfP: Did The Empire Make Sense? Exploring the Potential and the Limits of Colonial Environmental Knowledge

18–20 May 2027

Conveners: Mirjam Hähnle (German Historical Institute London) and Frank Uekötter (Ruhr University Bochum)

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Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2026


Opportunities

Postgraduate Students Conference 2027

28 and 29 January 2027

The German Historical Institute London invites applications from PhD students studying German history at a UK or Irish university.

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Deadline for applications: 20 November 2026


Events

CfP: Media of Memory and the Pre-Modern Economy

5-7 May 2027

Organisers: Marcus Meer (UCL) and Gabriele Passabi (GHIL)

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Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2026


 
Events & Conferences: Line drawing of a wall calendar, in a circle.

Events and Conferences

13 October 2026 (3.30–5pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Colloquium 14/2026

GHIL/online

20 October 2026 (2.30–4pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Colloquium 15/2026

GHIL/online

20 October 2026 (5.30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Blair, Schröder, and Work in Neoliberal Times
Bernhard Rieger (Leiden)

GHIL/online

 
Research: Line drawing of a round magnifying glass in a circle, with the handle of the magnifying glass breaking through the circle.

Our Research

 
 
Portrait painting of Queen Elizabeth I, dressed in her coronation robes and holding the orb and sceptre. This painting dates to ca. 1600, and is probably a copy of the lost original from 1559. It is part of the National Portrait Gallery's collections.

Research Area

British History

Early printed and coloured map of Europe.

Research Area

European Perspectives

Engraving of Austen Henry Layard's excavations at Nineveh, showing the removal of a pair of lamassu (winged, human headed bulls).

Research Area

Colonial and Global History

 
Blog: Line drawing of a typewriter, in a circle. The page sticking out of the top of the typewriter breaks through the circle.

Latest Blogposts

The corner of the GHIL building facing on Bloomsbury Square and Great Russell Street. A blurry man with a shoulder bag walks by in the direction of the British Museum.

5 October 2026

Blogpost

Xinge Zhai

Rethinking Globalization and Regional Development behind Global Port Cities

Category: Research, Scholarships


21 September 2026

Blogpost

Vincent Kleinbub

‘In the Service of Peace’: British–German Youth Hostelling during National Socialism and the Allied Occupation

Category: Research, Scholarships


Podcast: Line drawing circle containing a microphone below a pair of headphones

GHIL Podcast

Lecture

Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology

Bernhard Kleeberg
14 August 2026 , 0:50 h

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Lecture

Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology

Bernhard Kleeberg

Lecture

Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich

David Milne
14 August 2026 , 0:37 h

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Lecture

Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich

David Milne

Lecture

The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s

Isabella Löhr
14 August 2026 , 0:49 h

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Lecture

The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s

Isabella Löhr

Library: Line drawing of a books, in a circle.

New Publications

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German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 (May 2026)

Cover image for the publication of Sunil Amrith's 2025 Thyssen lecture.

Sunil Amrith

Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories

Kolonialismus und Klimakrise: die Hinterlassenschaften und Wanderbewegungen des Kolonialismus neu überdenken

Book cover for Juliane Clegg "Geprägte Freiheit". Großbritannien und das Europäische Währungssystem 1979–1992. Image of a £5 Bank of England bank note, with an image of Queen Elizabeth II, probably from the 1970s. The whole cover overlayed with red. Text in white.

Juliane Clegg

Geprägte Freiheit: Großbritannien und das Europäische Währungssystem 1979–1992