Annual Lecture
The Annual Lectures are delivered in November by eminent historians and subsequently published by the Institute. Since 2019, the lectures have been published in electronic format (pdf) only. All Open Access content is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence.
The Annual Lecture. German Historical Institute London.
London: German Historical Institute, 1980– .
[Year of lecture] 1979– .
ISSN 0269-8560 (print)
ISSN 2755-5143 (online)
Contact and Enquiries: Jozef van der Voort and Marielle Sutherland (publications@ghil.ac.uk)
Willibald Steinmetz
Comparisons that Hurt: The Politics of Outrage from the Reformation to the Holocaust
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2023
London : German Historical Institute London, 2023
Miri Rubin
‘I am black’: Medieval Commentators and the Meanings of Blackness
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2022
London : German Historical Institute London, 2023
Monica Juneja
Modernism's Relational Geographies:
Global (Art) History With and Beyond the Nation
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2021
London: German Historical Institute London, 2022
Peter Mandler
The Crisis of the Meritocracy
How Popular Demand (not Politicians) Made Britain into a Mass Education Society
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2020
London: German Historical Institute London, 2021
Ulrike Freitag
Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2019
London: German Historical Institute, 2020
Jürgen Kocka
Capitalism and Its Critics
A Long-Term View
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2017
London: German Historical Institute, 2018
Annual Lectures 1979-2016
Mary Fulbrook
Subjectivity and History
Approaches to Twentieth-Century German Society
Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2016
London: German Historical Institute, 2017
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Cultures of Decision-Making
Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2015
London: German Historical Institute, 2016
Ute Frevert
The Moral Economy of Trust
Modern Trajectories
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2013
London: German Historical Institute, 2014
Jane Caplan
'Jetzt judenfrei'
Writing Tourism in Nazi-Occupied Poland
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2012
London: German Historical Institute, 2013
Wolfram Siemann
Metternich's Britain
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2011
London: German Historical Institute, 2012
Hartmut Kaelble
The 1970s in Europe
A Period of Disillusionment or Promise?
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2009
London: German Historical Institute, 2010
Janet Nelson
Opposition to Charlemagne
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2008
London: German Historical Institute, 2009
Stig Förster
The Battlefield
Towards a Modern History of War
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2007
London: German Historical Institute, 2008
John Breuilly
Nationalism, Power and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2006
London: German Historical Institute, 2007
Jürgen Osterhammel
Europe, the 'West', and the Civilizing Mission
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2005
London: German Historical Institute, 2006.
Anthony J. Nicholls
Always Good Neighbours – Never Good Friends?
Anglo-German Relations 1949–2001
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2004
London: German Historical Institute, 2005
Werner Paravicini
Fact and Fiction
St Patrick's Purgatory and the European Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2003
London: German Historical Institute, 2004
Heinrich August Winkler
The Long Shadow of the Reich
Weighing Up German History
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2001
London: German Historical Institute, 2002
Peter George Julius Pulzer
Fog in Channel
Anglo-German Perceptions in the Nineteenth Century
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2000
London: German Historical Institute, 2001
Gerhard A. Ritter
Continuity and Change
Political and Social Developments in Germany after 1945 and 1989/90
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1999
London: German Historical Institute, 2000
David Blackbourn
A Sense of Place
New Directions in German History
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1998
London: German Historical Institute, 1999
Johannes Fried
The Veil of Memory
Anthropological Problems when Considering the Past
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1997
London: German Historical Institute, 1998
Michael Eliot Howard
The Crisis of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1916–17
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1996
London: German Historical Institute, 1997
Ernst Schulin
‘The Most Historical of All Peoples’
Nationalism and the New Construction of Jewish History in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1995
London: German Historical Institute, 1996
Alan Bullock
Personality and Power
The Strange Case of Hitler and Stalin
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1994
London: German Historical Institute, 1995
Klaus Hildebrand
Reich – Nation-State – Great Power
Reflections on German Foreign Policy 1871–1945
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1993
London: German Historical Institute, 1995
Keith Robbins
Protestant Germany through British Eyes
A Complex Victorian Encounter
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1992
London: German Historical Institute, 1993
Lothar Gall
Confronting Clio
Myth-Makers and Other Historians
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1991
London: German Historical Institute, 1992
Thomas Nipperdey
The Rise of the Arts in Modern Society
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1989
London: German Historical Institute, 1990
Roger Morgan
Britain and Germany since 1945
Two Societies and Two Foreign Policies
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1988
London: German Historical Institute, 1989
Hagen Schulze
Is there a German History?
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1987
London: German Historical Institute, 1988
Owen Chadwick
Acton, Döllinger and History
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1986
London: German Historical Institute, 1987
Wolfgang Justin Mommsen
Britain and Germany 1800 to 1914
Two Developmental Paths towards Industrial Society
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1985
London: German Historical Institute, 1986
James Joll
National Histories and National Historians
Some German and English Views of the Past
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1984
London: German Historical Institute, 1985
Wolfram Fischer
Germany in the World Economy during the Nineteenth Century
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1983
London: German Historical Institute, 1984
Gordon Alexander Craig
Germany and the West
The Ambivalent Relationship
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1982
London: German Historical Institute, 1983
Alan John Percivale Taylor
1939 Revisited
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1981
London: German Historical Institute, 1982
Karl Dietrich Erdmann
Gustav Stresemann
The Revision of Versailles and the Weimar Parliamentary System
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1980
London: German Historical Institute, 1981
Samuel Berrick Saul
Industrialisation and De-Industrialisation?
The Interaction of the German and British Economies before the First World War
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 1979
London: German Historical Institute, 1980