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

 
 
 
 
Christmas closure

The Institute, including the library, will be closed from Monday, 25nd December until Monday, 1st January. We will be back to our normal opening hours (Mon.-Fri., 9.30am-9pm) from Tuesday, 2nd January.

 

Events and Conferences

7–8 December 2023

Workshop

History as a Political Category

ICAS:MP, New Delhi

12 December 2023 (5.30pm)

GHIL Lecture

Jesse Bucher (Roanoke College, Salem, VA) and Bettina Brockmeyer (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Chasing a Phantom: An African Skull in European Politics

GHIL/Online

11–12 January 2024

Postgraduate Students Conference

Postgraduate Research Students Conference

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Currently on show

Exhibition

Behind the Wire

Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience

During the First World War, German civilians were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ in British Empire locations around the world. The biggest internment camp was Knockaloe on the Isle of Man, holding 22,000 prisoners. This exhibition opens up new perspectives and formats for presenting the history of wartime internment. Alongside eighteen panels, a Virtual Reality Experience will give viewers an immersive experience of Fort Napier Camp in South Africa.

The exhibition Behind the Wire and the Virtual Reality Experience is currently on show at the German Historical Institute London.

Academic lead contacts are Professor Stefan Manz (Aston University Birmingham; S.Manz@aston.ac.uk) and Professor Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University; M.Stibbe@shu.ac.uk).

GHIL


 
 

Call for Papers

 

Call for Papers

Medieval Germany Workshop 2024
12 April 2024

Organizers: German Historical Institute London, German Historical Institute Washington and German History Society

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) will provide an opportunity for researchers in the field from the UK, continental Europe, and the USA to meet in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s work.

 

German Historical Institute London

Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2023

 
 

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

Sketch of John Moore pointing at a board showing statistical information while giving a talk in front of a an audience

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

23 November 2023

Blogpost

Christopher Dillon & Kim Wünschmann

The German Revolution of 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses

Only by exploring the contemporary archival record, on which all the contributions to the volume rest, can historians excavate the revolution’s popular mobilization and societal penetration, its destruction of inherited patterns of authority, and its complex and contested legacy for the Weimar republican project.

Category: Publications


9 November 2023

Blogpost

Lea Levenhagen

A Short Walk through London’s History during the Second World War: Financial Experts in Exile

A portrait of London emerges as the bedrock for the future economic integration of Europe—a ‘wonderful opportunity’ to make the most of the situation of exile during the Second World War. This formative period is at the heart of my Ph.D. project and its analysis of the international groups, informal gatherings, and committees involved in generating ideas for a post-war European order. …

Category: Research, Scholarships


GHIL Podcast

Interview

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Pollution and the modern city:
Lessons from India's past , 0:20 h



Interview

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Pollution and the modern city:
Lessons from India's past

GHIL Lecture

Awadhendra Sharan

India’s Atmospheric Modernity:
Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City , 0:52 h



GHIL Lecture

Awadhendra Sharan

India’s Atmospheric Modernity:
Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City

Thyssen Lecture

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Imagining India in the Empire of Science , 0:49 h



Thyssen Lecture

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Imagining India in the Empire of Science

New Publications

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

Sebastian Conrad

Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making

Koloniale Zeiten, globale Zeiten: Geschichtsschreibung und imperiale Weltgestaltung

Thyssen Lectures 2022-2026. Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire. [2]

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Klaus Bittner, 2023

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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

Vacancy

Verwaltungsleitung / Head of Administration

4-year fixed-term contract, possible extension up to 8 years / auf 4 Jahre befristet, mögliche Verlängerung auf maximal 8 Jahre
Salary grade / Entgeltgruppe 12 TVöD (Bund)
Starting date: 1 June 2024 / Zum 1. Juni 2024

German Historical Institute London / Deutsches Historisches Institut London


Closing date for applications: 8 January 2024 / Bewerbungsschluss: 8. Januar 2024