Featured Article

Constantin Goschler

The Genius of Parliament: Cultures of Compromise in Britain and Germany after 1945

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 45 (2023), no. 1, 3–38

Featured Article

Martin Christ

The London Bills of Mortality: State of the Art and Future Directions of Research

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 45 (2023), no. 1, 39–75

Scholarships

GHIL-MWF Tandem Fellowship on The British Empire and the History of Colonialism

GHI London-India Research Programme
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Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies New Delhi

Tandem Fellowship: one scholar each from Germany and India

Primarily for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD) working on the history of the British Empire and colonial India

Start date: 2024

Duration: 6 months

London/New Delhi

Closing date for applications: 29 September 2023

Scholarships

Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants from the Max Weber Foundation

Once a year, the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to young academics with an international focus. The travel grants are meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase. The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History.

Closing date for applications: 6 October 2023

Student workshops

Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2024

The GHIL’s 28th Postgraduate Research Students’ Conference will take place on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024. The conference is intended for postgraduate research scholars working on German history from the Middle Ages to the present at a UK or Irish university, and aims to give them the opportunity to present their work-in-progress and to discuss their research with other students working in the same field.

London

Closing date for applications: 15 November 2023

Collaborative Research Project

(De)Constructing Europe – EU-Scepticism in European Integration History

Dr William King and David Lawton at the GHIL

This project explores the important and understudied history of Euroscepticism, and alternative attitudes towards European integration, in Britain. It seeks to build on existing conceptions of Britain and ‘Europe’ and examine the impact and role of different visions and critical views in British society and politics. Focusing on Britain during the 1970s-90s, the project forms one key pillar in a wider collaborative project with colleagues at the German Historical Institutes in Rome and Warsaw, and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
William's research focuses on Barbara Castle, the European Parliament and the British Labour Party. It will concentrate on key individuals who actively shaped and influenced the European integration project; many of them held alternative, and at times competing, visions and ideas as to what British membership entailed.
David's project focuses on the emergence of a network of Eurosceptic individuals working in broadcasting, journalism, literature, and in the legal profession from the 1970s to the 2000s. He aims to shed further light on the growth of 'Euroscepticism' outside of Westminster politics and explore the ways in which individuals came together to protest and prophesise about future of European integration.

Read more about Euroscepticism project at the GHIL

Read more about the (De)Constructing Europe project as whole

Read a report from a recent (De)Constructing Europe Conference (London, 7–8 July 2022)

Read a report from a recent (De)Constructing Europe panel discussion (London, 7 July 2022)

Read a report from and/or watch the recent Europa im Widerstand – Widerstand gegen Europa panel discussion (Berlin, 26 September 2022)

Image: Banksy Brexit Mural in Dover, ©Jay Galvin, 2017
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Image license: CC BY 4.0

28 September 2023

Blogpost

Kim Embrey

Sing a Line with Coca Wine: The European Rediscovery of Coca

Understanding the mechanisms of the introduction of coca into British society, the trajectory of its career, and ultimately the development of global  restrictions on the drug, can support historians in drawing comparisons with other narcotics that might have experienced a similar fate.

Category: Research, Scholarships

12 September 2023

Blogpost

Philipp Molderings

The Postcolonial Nation in the Museum: World Appropriation and National Identity at the Humboldt Forum and British Museum

The combination and juxtaposition of the historical and contemporary time levels is intended to give a deeper historical dimension to the problems that have penetrated the public sphere in the course of the colonialism debates since 2015, and in this way enable a more differentiated understanding of how the two museums are currently renegotiating collective identity and memory culture between national and global perspectives. …

Category: Research, Scholarships