German Historical Institute London
Opportunities
Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2026
The 30th postgraduate research students conference of the German Historical Institute London will take place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 February 2026.
The Conference aims to give postgraduate research students from the UK and Ireland working on German history the opportunity to present their work-in-progress and to discuss their research with other students working in the same field.
GHIL
Closing date for applications: 25 November 2025
GHIL Building
Renovation Works and Closure
The GHIL building, including the library, will be closed for renovation works until early 2026.
Among other works, our reception space and the seminar and common rooms will receive a face-lift, and a previously hidden Octagon room on a the ground floor will become a new meeting space.
Please bear with us during this unavoidable period of closure. We look forward to welcoming you to the new and improved GHIL next year!
Vacancy
Research Associate
24-month fixed-term contract for a part-time position (32h/week) as part of the project ‘Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)’ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
London
Closing date for applications: 16 November 2025
21 October 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
Benno Gammerl (European University Institute, Florence)
Swedenborg House/Online
28 October 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History
Henrike Lähnemann (University of Oxford)
Swedenborg House/Online
4 November 2025 (2pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Policing the Coasts, Securing the World
Caste, Culture, and Community
Das Wesen der Frau als Projektions- und Aushandlungsfläche wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgenese
Kevin Lenk, Prateek Pankaj and Lena Spickermann-Christanz
GHIL/Online
16 October 2025
Blogpost
Benjamin Pfannes
The View from the Island: Britain's Perception of the Franco-German Brigade
Category: Research, Scholarships
6 October 2025
Blogpost
Shaul Marmari
The Spark of a Universal Uprising? Echoes of the Murder of Lord Moyne, 1944–5
Category: Research, Scholarships
Thyssen Lecture
Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Gudrun Krämer
13 October 2025
, 0:58 h
Thyssen Lecture
Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Gudrun Krämer
Interview
What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
5 September 2025
, 0:18 h
Interview
What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
GHIL Joint Lecture
‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger
5 September 2025
, 0:47 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger
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
Eckhart Hellmuth