German Historical Institute London

17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
United Kingdom

Phone: Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050

URI: www.ghil.ac.uk

 

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.

Information on becoming a new reader can be found here.

 
 

Events and Conferences

 

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).

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GHIL Bulletin

Volume 45 (2023), No. 1

May Issue

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


 

Opportunities

 

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


New Publications

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

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Featured Research

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)

Read a report from and/or watch the recent Europa im Widerstand – Widerstand gegen Europa panel discussion (Berlin, 26 September 2022)

Image: Banksy Brexit Mural in Dover, ©Jay Galvin, 2017
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Image license: CC BY 4.0

 

GHIL Podcast

 

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)

Latest Blogposts

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