German Historical Institute London
Events
Summer Lecture Series
The summer lecture series will begin on the 6th of May. Speakers are David Milne, Bernhard Kleeberg, Susanne Lachenicht, Stefan Esders, Aparna Veidik, and Sonja Levsen.
You can sign up now to attend in person or via Zoom.
GHIL/Online
13 May 2025 (5.30pm)
Special lecture
London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
Janina Struk (independent scholar), Paul Betts (University of Oxford) and James Bulgin (Imperial War Museums)
Organized by the Deutsches Historisches Museum as part of a European event series exploring the social and historical contexts of the early exhibitions on Nazi crimes (1945-1948).
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
6 May 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
David Milne (University of East Anglia)
Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich
GHIL/Online
13 May 2025 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Michelle Watzig
"What is more British than the life of a seaman?" Britische Seeleute in multi-ethnischen Kontexten, ca. 1880–1920er Jahre
GHIL/Online
13 May 2025 (5.30pm)
Special Lecture
Janina Struk (independent scholar), Paul Betts (University of Oxford) and James Bulgin (Imperial War Museums)
London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
GHIL/Online
16 April 2025
Blogpost
Constanze Weiske
From Germany to the Caribbean: The Baring Bank of London's Involvement in the Slave Plantation Economy
Category: Research, Scholarships
1 April 2025
Blogpost
Pappal Suneja
The Modern Architecture Discourse of Design (1957-1988) through a Postcolonial Lens
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research
25 April 2025
, 0:10 h
Interview
Christine Krüger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research
GHIL Lecture
Christine Krüger
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective
The Example of Germany and Britain
25 April 2025
, 0:50 h
GHIL Lecture
Christine Krüger
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective
The Example of Germany and Britain
Special lecture
Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann
Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War
21 March 2025
, 1:03 h
Special lecture
Lucy Noakes and Frank Trentmann
Winners and Losers?
Britain and Germany after the Second World War
María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler (eds.)
The Officer and the People: Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
Thiago P. Barbosa