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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!

Prizes

Prize of the German Historical Institute London 2025

We are delighted to announce that the Prize of the German Historical Institute London 2025 has been awarded to:

Susanne Quitmann (LMU Munich)

for her doctoral thesis

Reconceptualising Voice: An Exploratory Case Study of British Child Migrants
(1869–1970)

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

Events and Conferences

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25 November 2024 (6pm)

Special Lecture

Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History
Anja Laukötter

MAR.1.04, MARSHALL BUILDING, LSE

27–28 November 2025

Conference

After the Catastrophe
Antisemitism, Racism, and Bio-Politics in Post-War Europe

LSE

9 December 2025 (5.30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin)

Pushkin House/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

Cross-Cutting Themes

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

Teamwork: Line drawing of three hands drawing a lightbulb in the centre of a circle.

Call for Papers

Medieval Germany Workshop
29 May 2026

Organizers: the German Historical Institute London and the German History Society

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany offers an opportunity for researchers from Europe and the wider English-speaking world to meet, to discuss their work in a relaxed and friendly setting, and to learn more about each other’s research.

GHIL

Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2026