German Historical Institute London
GHIL Building
We are open!
The long wait is finally over and our building open again!
We thank you for your patience and look forward to welcoming you back! Some finishing work will continue over the coming weeks, but our doors are open.
Opportunities
Early-Career Scholarships
GHIL-MWF Delhi Joint Fellowship on “The British Empire and the History of Colonialism”
Duration: 3 months to be taken up at any time during the calendar year 2027
Deadline for applications: 25 September 2026
OPPORTUNITIES
Postgraduate/Postdoc Scholarships
Research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden and postdocs at German universities to carry out research in Britain.
Duration: Up to 3 months (only full months)
GHIL
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026
10 September 2026 (2–6pm)
Workshop
Translating Political Thought between Britain and Germany, c. 1618-1848
GHIL
10 August 2026
Blogpost
Antonios Chiotellis
Empires Drifting Apart: South Africa and the Emergence of British–German Public Alienation (1894–1907)
Category: Research, Scholarships
27 July 2026
Blogpost
Mirjam Hähnle
Life Squared: Early Modern Utopian Ecologies
Category: GHI Fellows, Research
Lecture
Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology
Bernhard Kleeberg
14 August 2026
, 0:50 h
Lecture
Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich
David Milne
14 August 2026
, 0:37 h
Lecture
The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s
Isabella Löhr
14 August 2026
, 0:49 h
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
Marianne Taatz-Jacobi
Textrecycling: Nachdrucke und Debattentransfer in England (1640–1660)