German Historical Institute London
Library: opening times and new readers
The library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm. Library staff are available for enquiries 9.30am-5pm. After 5pm, the library is staffed by security personnel only and entry is restricted to registered readers with a library card.
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8 June 2023 (6.30pm)
Leo Baeck Institute Lecture
Sara Lipton
Marked Off in the Eyes of the Public: Anti-Jewish Imagery and the Politics of Prejudice
GHIL/Online
13 June 2023 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)
India’s Atmospheric Modernity: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City
GHIL/Online
20 June 2023 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Regina Toepfer (University of Würzburg)
Homer’s Heroes in Early Modern Germany: A Translational Anthropology
GHIL/Online
26 April – 30 June 2023
Exhibition
Behind the Wire
Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience
During the First World War, German civilians were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ in British Empire locations around the world. The biggest internment camp was Knockaloe on the Isle of Man, holding 22,000 prisoners. This exhibition opens up new perspectives and formats for presenting the history of wartime internment. Alongside eighteen panels, a Virtual Reality Experience will give viewers an immersive experience of Fort Napier Camp in South Africa.
The exhibition Behind the Wire and the Virtual Reality Experience will be shown at the German Historical Institute London until 30 June 2023.
Academic lead contacts are Professor Stefan Manz (Aston University Birmingham; S.Manz@aston.ac.uk) and Professor Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University; M.Stibbe@shu.ac.uk).
GHIL
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
Vacancies
Administrative Officer
Full (40h/week) or part-time (24 h/week)
Current gross salary per annum: £38.502 – £41.190 (full-time)
The German Historical Institute London is seeking to employ, at the earliest opportunity, an administrative officer.
German Historical Institute London
Closing date for applications: 30 June 2023
Prizes
Prize of the German Historical Institute London
The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university). The Prize is 1,000 Euros. To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2022 and 31 July 2023.
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2023
Martina Steber
The Guardians of Concepts
Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980
Studies in British and Imperial History. Vol. 9
New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2023
Monica Juneja
Modernism's Relational Geographies:
Global (Art) History With and Beyond the Nation
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2021
London: German Historical Institute London, 2022
Matthias Bähr
Konfessionelle Mehrdimensionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit
Irland um 1600
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd 88
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 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)
Image: Banksy Brexit Mural in Dover, ©Jay Galvin, 2017
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Image license: CC BY 4.0
Symposium
Behind the Wire: Exhibition
Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience
Launch event for Behind the Wire
, 0:59 h
Symposium
Behind the Wire: Exhibition
Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience
Launch event for Behind the Wire
GHIL Lecture
David Kuchenbuch
Mediating Globalism in the Twentieth Century:
The Cases of R. Buckminster Fuller and Arno Peters
, 0:42 h
GHIL Lecture
David Kuchenbuch
Mediating Globalism in the Twentieth Century:
The Cases of R. Buckminster Fuller and Arno Peters
Interview
David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography) , 0:12 h
Interview
David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)
16 May 2023
Blogpost
Daniela Roberts
Creating Space and Collection Display in British Gothic Revival Houses (1740–1860)
"I aim to uncover neo-Gothic concepts of space, the historiographic adaptation of medieval architecture, the diversity of Gothic and neoclassical designs, and their role as political and social signifiers. My project will analyse Gothic revival as an architectural framework for collection display for the first time, in order to understand the development of specific modes of presentation in the context of collection-related domestic architecture and the evolution of the modern collection space."
Category: Research, Scholarships
13 April 2023
Blogpost
Dorothea McEwan
Eduard Zander in Ethiopia, 1847–68
What makes Zander’s oeuvre so special is the fact that he was a trained artist, painter, and draughtsman who, as a resident in Ethiopia from 1847 to his death in 1868, looked at Ethiopia not as an exotic place, but as his home. …
Category: Publications