The fellows of the German Historical Institute London pursue a wide range of research topics on British and German History as well as on Anglo-German relations from the Middle Ages to the present day. However, there are some fields of research on which the Institute places particular emphasis and concentrates its activities in arranging conferences and acquiring outside funding for additional research projects. At the same time these topics are also areas of particular expertise of the present staff.

Political History in Social and Cultural Perspective

‘People Count’: A History of British Self-Observations in Survey Research and Censuses in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  (Kerstin Brückweh)

Theatrum Ceremoniale. Monarchy, Parliament and Ritual in England, 1688/89-c. 1800  (Michael Schaich)

„Conservatism lost – Conservatism regained“. Political Languages of Conservatism in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s  (Martina Steber)

Editorial Series: British Envoys to Germany and British Envoys to the Kaiserreich (Markus Mößlang)

Colonialism and Colonial History

„The Great Plan for Mass Education“: Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial Experiments in Education (Valeska Huber)

Christian Missions and Female Education in Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone (Silke Strickrodt)

Religious buildings, state archaeology, and the making of monuments in colonial India (Indra Sengupta)

Criticism of Colonialism from the 18th to the 20th Century (Benedikt Stuchtey)

Welfare and Solidarity

History of Child Adoption in Europe (Benedikt Stuchtey)

Pauper Letters and Petitions for Poor Relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770 – 1914 (Andreas Gestrich and Steven King; Daniela Heinisch)

Further Projects

‘Bodily refreshment’ and Leisure. Political and Economic Dimensions of Early Modern Sports Culture (Angela Schattner)

Changing Habits: Monastic Transitus and Religious Competition in Late Medieval Europe (Jochen Schenk)

Source Editions

British Envoys to Germany and British Envoys to the Kaiserreich (Markus Mößlang)

Pauper Letters and Petitions for Poor Relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770 – 1914  (Andreas Gestrich and Steven King; Daniela Heinisch)

India Research Group

Social and Educational Policy in India since the Nineteenth Century (GHIL in cooperation with King's India Institute, London, and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies; Göttingen)