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

12 April 2024

Workshop

Medieval Germany Workshop

GHIL

16 April 2024 (3.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Lucas Haasis
Das Bremer Schiff Concordia. Eine globale Mikrogeschichte

GHIL/Online

23 April 2024 (3.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Almuth Ebke
Gott und die Welt. Die historisch-kritische Bibelforschung und das Konzept der Moderne

GHIL/Online

 
 
 

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

28 March 2024

Blogpost

Sarah Maria Noske

‘No Shows’ and Other Forms of Refusal: Reading Missionary Letters about the Loyalty Islands

As part of my PhD study, I am investigating and tracing the history of the island communities of the Ruapuke Mission Station in the Foveaux Strait in southern New Zealand and of the Loyalty Islands north-east of New Caledonia. […] I am interested in how these communities and their lives changed in the context of the mission stations that were established on the islands, and how colonialism was negotiated in these gaps of the ‘webs of empire’.

Category: Research, Scholarships


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


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