German Historical Institute London
Events
Summer Lecture Series
The summer lecture series will begin on the 6th of May. Speakers are David Milne, Bernhard Kleeberg, Susanne Lachenicht, Stefan Esders, Aparna Veidik, and Sonja Levsen.
You can sign up now to attend in person or via Zoom.
GHIL/Online
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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
8 April 2025 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Christin Hansen
Internationale Beteiligung von Frauen am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg: Konzepte und Praktiken weiblicher Partizipation in der Zwischenkriegszeit
GHIL/Online
15 April 2025 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Lena Filzen
Die Geschichte der Wahuma – Eine Fremdbeschreibung im Wandel
GHIL/Online
6 May 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
David Milne (University of East Anglia)
Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich
GHIL/Online

1 April 2025
Blogpost
Pappal Suneja
The Modern Architecture Discourse of Design (1957-1988) through a Postcolonial Lens
Category: Research, Scholarships
17 March 2025
Blogpost
Karolin Wetjen
Collecting Weather Data: The Use of Scientific Instruments in Nineteenth-Century Climate Research
Category: Research, Scholarships

Special lecture
Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann
Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War
21 March 2025
, 1:03 h

Special lecture
Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann
Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War

Special lecture
Roland Wenzlhuemer
Raise, Reuse, Recycle
Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Royal History Society Lecture
24 January 2025
, 0:49 h

Special lecture
Roland Wenzlhuemer
Raise, Reuse, Recycle
Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Interview
Julia Angster and Kim König
Globalization: a threat to democracy?
18 November 2024
, 0:20 h

María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler (eds.)