German Historical Institute London
GHIL Building
Reopening 3 August
The long wait is almost over…
We thank you for your patience and look forward to welcoming you back! Some finishing work will continue over the coming weeks, but our doors will be open again from early August.
Prizes
Prize of the GHI London
Awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on British, German, or British-Colonial history, British-German relations, or British-German comparative history.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2026
Opportunities
Early-Career Scholarships
GHIL-MWF Delhi Joint Fellowship on “The British Empire and the History of Colonialism”
Duration: 3 months to be taken up at any time during the calendar year 2027
Deadline for applications: 25 September 2026
21–24 July 2026
Summer School
Summer School
City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London
GHIL
13 July 2026
Blogpost
Mona Rudolph
Sexual Borderlands and Social Margins: Prostitution and Migration in West Germany, 1949–1989/1990
Category: Research, Scholarships
29 June 2026
Blogpost
Prateek Pankaj
Indian Samajvad in the History of Twentieth-Century Socialism
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Epistemic Inequalities, the ILO, and Labour History in the Global South
Ulrike Lindner, Thomas Kaal and Kim König
22 June 2026
, 0:18 h
Interview
Epistemic Inequalities, the ILO, and Labour History in the Global South
Ulrike Lindner, Thomas Kaal and Kim König
GHIL Joint Lecture
Epistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Ulrike Lindner
22 June 2026
, 0:51 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
Epistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Ulrike Lindner
GHIL Lecture
Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
Benno Gammerl
GHIL Lecture
6 May 2026
, 0:46 h
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
Marianne Taatz-Jacobi
Textrecycling: Nachdrucke und Debattentransfer in England (1640–1660)