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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
26 August 2025 (2pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Geena Carlisle and Claudia Roesch
Two talks
GHIL/Online
9 September 2025 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Ute Kemmerling
Ajmer – ein muslimischer Pilgerort unter kolonialer Beobachtung in Britisch-Indien (1818-1947)
GHIL/Online
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
9 July 2025
Blogpost
Florian Balbiani
Knowledge Production between Mission, University, and Colonial Administration: Swahili Studies in Britain and Germany 1840s–1940s
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König
Mind the void
The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
15 July 2025
, 0:25 h
Interview
Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König
Mind the void
The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
GHIL Lecture
Achim Landwehr
The Hole Story
Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
15 July 2025
, 0:46 h
GHIL Lecture
Achim Landwehr
The Hole Story
Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
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
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