German Historical Institute London
Events
Summer Lecture Series
The summer lecture series has begun! Speakers are David Milne, Bernhard Kleeberg, Susanne Lachenicht, Stefan Esders, Aparna Veidik, and Sonja Levsen.
You can sign up now to attend in person or via Zoom.
GHIL/Online
Publications
Thyssen Lecture
Dhruv Raina / After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Postcolonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
Read the 4th Thyssen Lecture via Open Access or listen to the lecture recording via our Podcast
Publications
GHIL Bulletin May 2025
The new GHIL Bulletin is now available online (print copies to follow soon).
In this issue: articles by Paul Nolte (our current Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor) and Martin Deuerlein, many book reviews, and our Noticeboard with news on the Institute.
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (May 2025)
10 June 2025 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Christian Lemuel Magaling
Politics of Polarisation: Germany’s Private Colonialism and Island Diplomacy in Pacific Politics, 1850-1914
GHIL/Online
17 June 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin)
Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages
GHIL/Online
24 June 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Aparna Vaidik (Ashoka University)
Forensics, Expert Testimony, and Judicial Truth in British India: A History of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Trial (1929–31)
GHIL/Online
16 May 2025
Blogpost
Bodo Mrozek
From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Man-Made Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Part 2: Sniffer Squads on the Odour Trail: Smog in Frankfurt
Category: Research, Scholarships
6 June 2025
Blogpost
Bodo Mrozek
From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Part 3—Deindustrialization as Pollution Export: From Pittsburgh and Chicago to Baghdad and Delhi
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Philipp Gassert, Ole Münch and Kim König
The power of protest
28 May 2025
, 0:21 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
Philipp Gassert
Contesting Political Spaces
Thoughts on a World History of Street Protest
28 May 2025
, 0:43 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
Philipp Gassert
Contesting Political Spaces
Thoughts on a World History of Street Protest
Thyssen Lecture
Dhruv Raina
After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
19 May 2025
, 0:53 h
Thyssen Lecture
Dhruv Raina
After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
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
Thiago P. Barbosa