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

 
 
 
 

Library

Summer Opening Hours

From Monday, 7th July, the Library will be open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.

New readers: please come in to register before 3pm
 

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)


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


 

Events and Conferences

15 July 2025 (3.30pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Okcan Yıldırımtürk
A Ruined City between Communities and Empires: Competing Visions to Revive Famagusta from the 1840s to the 1870s

GHIL/Online

29 July–1 August 2025

Summer School

Summer School
Nature, Capitalism, and Empire

GHIL

26 August 2025 (2pm)

GHIL Colloquium

Geena Carlisle and Claudia Roesch
Two talks

GHIL/Online

 

Our Research

 
 

Research Area

British History

Research Area

European Perspectives

Research Area

Colonial and Global History

 
 
 

Lastest Blogposts

13 June 2025

Blogpost

Talha Murat

An Intellectual Sufi between Empires: Muhammad Tawfīq al-Bakrī (1870–1932)

Category: Research, Scholarships


26 June 2025

Blogpost

Lisa Hellriegel

‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Interwar Period Tell us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence

Category: Research, Scholarships


GHIL Podcast

Special Lecture

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
2 July 2025 , 1:07 h



Special Lecture

Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin

London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise

Interview

Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

German racial science and modern anthropology in India
19 June 2025 , 0:28 h



Interview

Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

German racial science and modern anthropology in India

Interview

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

Processing history
12 June 2025 , 0:14 h



Interview

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

Processing history

New Publications

GHIL

German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (May 2025)

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

Racializing Caste: Anthropology between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970)