German Historical Institute London
Library
Summer Opening Hours
From Monday, 7th July, the Library will be open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.
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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
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
26 August 2025 (2pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Geena Carlisle and Claudia Roesch
Two talks
GHIL/Online
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
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
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