German Historical Institute London
Events
Summer Lecture Series
The summer lecture series will begin on the 6th of May. 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
Prizes
Prize of the German Historical Institute London 2025
The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German, British or British colonial history, British-German relations or British-German comparative history.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2025
27 May 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Erfurt)
Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology
GHIL/Online
3 June 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth)
Aliens in the City! Pop Culture, Media and, ‘Othering’ in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century London
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
9 May 2025
Blogpost
Thiago P. Barbosa
Germany–India Entanglements in the Scientific Racialization of Caste
Category: Research, Publications, Prizes

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

Interview
Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research
25 April 2025
, 0:10 h

Interview
Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research

GHIL Lecture
Christine Krüger
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective
The Example of Germany and Britain
25 April 2025
, 0:50 h

GHIL Lecture
Christine Krüger
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective
The Example of Germany and Britain

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