German Historical Institute London

17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
United Kingdom

Phone: Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050

URI: www.ghil.ac.uk

 

German Historical Institute London

 
 
 
 
Easter closure

The Institute, including the library, will be closed from Friday, 29th March until Monday, 1st April. We will be back to our normal opening hours (Mon.-Fri., 9.30am-9pm) from Tuesday, 2nd April.

 

Events and Conferences

19 March 2024 (5:30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Laury Sarti (University of Freiburg)
Medieval Letter Collections and Mobility: Quantitative and Digital Approaches

GHIL/Online

26 March 2024 (5:30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Matthias Pohlig (HU Berlin)
Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation

GHIL/Online

12 April 2024

Workshop

Medieval Germany Workshop

GHIL

 
 
 

Library

Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm

The library is open to anyone with an interest in German history, British-German relations or comparative historiography. There are no membership or joining fees.

New readers need to register for a library card and have a short introductory tour of the library before or during their first visit. Entry after 5pm only with a valid library card.

Collections: Primarily German history from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. At least a third of library resources are English-language materials.

 

Featured Research

 

Book Project

Felix Römer
Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain

This month, former GHIL Fellow Felix Römer (HU Berlin) published his award-winning habilitation under the title Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain in our series Publications of the German Historical Institute London.

We had the chance to talk to Felix about his new book and ground-breaking research.

 

Latest Blogposts

29 February 2024

Blogpost

Janis Meder

Competition between Profit and Principles: The ‘Natural’ Market Niche in 1980s Britain

Today, a growing number of commercial companies across a variety of industries emphasize their moral motivations for business. […] This leads to an entanglement of moral and political messages with consumption, enabling the consumer to acquire not only a certain object or service, but also the moral implication that comes with it.

Category: Research, Scholarships


24 January 2024

Blogpost

Maxine Hart

The German Naval Memorial in Laboe

The German Naval Memorial in Laboe, a coastal town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is dedicated to those who have lost their lives at sea. It was first envisioned as a national memorial to German sailors who were killed in the line of duty during the First World War…

Category: Research


GHIL Podcast

Interview

Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Global rankings:
Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture
4 March 2024 , 0:14 h



Interview

Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König

Global rankings:
Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture

Joint Lecture

Nina Verheyen

Global Connections and Personal Achievements:
(De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany
4 March 2024 , 0:47 h



Joint Lecture

Nina Verheyen

Global Connections and Personal Achievements:
(De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany

Special Lecture

Clare Anderson

Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:
Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire
Royal Historical Society Lecture
22 February 2024 , 1:00 h



Special Lecture

Clare Anderson

Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:
Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire

New Publications

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

Zs 181/2022 (eBook)

Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann (eds.)

Living the German Revolution, 1918-19

Expectations, Experiences, Responses

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023

Felix Römer

Inequality Knowledge

The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain

Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd 89

Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024

GHIL Bulletin

Featured Article

Kiri Kolt

Go the Distance: Concepts of Migration and Origin in the Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Hungarian Notary

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 27–43


Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer


Featured Article

Lane B. Baker

Marginal People, Marginal History: A Historiography of Medieval Romani Immigration

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 44–75


Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer


Opportunities

Summer School

The British Empire and the History of Capitalism

21st Summer School
3–6 September 2024

This summer school will engage with the history of capitalism in the British Empire especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Course tutors: Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Dr Karolina Hutkova (LSE), and Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE)

Course convenors: Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London)

Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich


Closing date for applications: 12 April 2024