German Historical Institute London
Easter closure
The Institute, including the library, will be closed from Friday, 29th March until Monday, 1st April. We will be back to our normal opening hours (Mon.-Fri., 9.30am-9pm) from Tuesday, 2nd April.
19 March 2024 (5:30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Laury Sarti (University of Freiburg)
Medieval Letter Collections and Mobility: Quantitative and Digital Approaches
GHIL/Online
26 March 2024 (5:30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Matthias Pohlig (HU Berlin)
Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation
GHIL/Online
Library
Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm
The library is open to anyone with an interest in German history, British-German relations or comparative historiography. There are no membership or joining fees.
New readers need to register for a library card and have a short introductory tour of the library before or during their first visit. Entry after 5pm only with a valid library card.
Collections: Primarily German history from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. At least a third of library resources are English-language materials.
Book Project
Felix Römer
Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain
This month, former GHIL Fellow Felix Römer (HU Berlin) published his award-winning habilitation under the title Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain in our series Publications of the German Historical Institute London.
We had the chance to talk to Felix about his new book and ground-breaking research.
29 February 2024
Blogpost
Janis Meder
Competition between Profit and Principles: The ‘Natural’ Market Niche in 1980s Britain
Today, a growing number of commercial companies across a variety of industries emphasize their moral motivations for business. […] This leads to an entanglement of moral and political messages with consumption, enabling the consumer to acquire not only a certain object or service, but also the moral implication that comes with it.
Category: Research, Scholarships
24 January 2024
Blogpost
Maxine Hart
The German Naval Memorial in Laboe
The German Naval Memorial in Laboe, a coastal town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is dedicated to those who have lost their lives at sea. It was first envisioned as a national memorial to German sailors who were killed in the line of duty during the First World War…
Category: Research
Interview
Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
Global rankings:
Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture
4 March 2024
, 0:14 h
Interview
Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
Global rankings:
Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture
Joint Lecture
Nina Verheyen
Global Connections and Personal Achievements:
(De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany
4 March 2024
, 0:47 h
Joint Lecture
Nina Verheyen
Global Connections and Personal Achievements:
(De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany
Special Lecture
Clare Anderson
Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:
Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire
Royal Historical Society Lecture
22 February 2024
, 1:00 h
Special Lecture
Clare Anderson
Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:
Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire
Miri Rubin
‘I am black’: Medieval Commentators and the Meanings of Blackness
The Annual Lecture / German Historical Institute London. 2022
London : German Historical Institute London, 2023
Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann (eds.)
Living the German Revolution, 1918-19
Expectations, Experiences, Responses
Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023
Felix Römer
Inequality Knowledge
The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd 89
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024
Featured Article
Kiri Kolt
Go the Distance: Concepts of Migration and Origin in the Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Hungarian Notary
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 27–43
Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer
Featured Article
Lane B. Baker
Marginal People, Marginal History: A Historiography of Medieval Romani Immigration
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 2 (November 2023), pages 44–75
Special Issue: Pride and Prejudice in Stories of Medieval Travel and Migration / edited by Marcus Meer
Summer School
The British Empire and the History of Capitalism
21st Summer School
3–6 September 2024
This summer school will engage with the history of capitalism in the British Empire especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Course tutors: Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Dr Karolina Hutkova (LSE), and Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE)
Course convenors: Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London)
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Closing date for applications: 12 April 2024