German Historical Institute London
Prizes
Prize of the German Historical Institute London
Awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on British, German, or British-Colonial history, British-German relations, or British-German comparative history.
The Prize is 1,000 Euros, presented at the GHIL’s Annual Lecture in November 2026.
To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2025 and 31 July 2026.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2026
GHIL Building
Renovation Works and Closure
The GHIL building, including the library, will be closed for renovation works until Spring 2026.
Among other works, our reception space and the seminar and common rooms will receive a face-lift, and a previously hidden Octagon room on a the ground floor will become a new meeting space.
Please bear with us during this unavoidable period of closure. We look forward to welcoming you to the new and improved GHIL in a few months' time!
19 May 2026 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
The Politics of Flooding in Early Modern England
John Morgan (University of Bristol)
GHIL/Online
26 May 2026 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Organizing Knowledge for Planetary Development: The International Hydrological Decade (1965–1974) and the Geopolitics of the Earth Sciences
Etienne Benson (MPIWG Berlin)
GHIL/Online
28–29 May 2026
Workshop
Politics of Land
The Politicization of Rurality in Europe since the late 20th Century
HIS, Hamburg
4 May 2026
Blogpost
Lea Middell
The Derry Civil Rights Movement: Between Historical Memory and Ongoing Struggle. Combining Archival Research and Fieldwork
Category: Research, Scholarships
20 April 2026
Blogpost
Max Schellbach
Between Control and Emancipation: Youth Work with the Second Generation of Post-Colonial Immigrants in 1970s and 1980s London
Category: Research, Scholarships
GHIL Lecture
Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
Benno Gammerl
GHIL Lecture
6 May 2026
, 0:46 h
Interview
Queer Perspectives : New Ways of Understanding German History
Benno Gammerl and Kim König
6 May 2026
, 0:19 h
Interview
Queer Perspectives : New Ways of Understanding German History
Benno Gammerl and Kim König
Special lecture
Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire
Vinita Damodaran
Royal Historical Society Lecture
30 March 2025
, 0:49 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
Marianne Taatz-Jacobi
Textrecycling: Nachdrucke und Debattentransfer in England (1640–1660)