German Historical Institute London
23 April 2024 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Almuth Ebke
Gott und die Welt. Die historisch-kritische Bibelforschung und das Konzept der Moderne
GHIL/Online
25-26 April 2024
Conference
Crossings:
Non-Privileged Migration and Mobility Control in the Age of Global Empires (c. 1850-1914)
GHIL
30 April 2024 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Talha Murat
Between Empires: Ottoman Egyptian Sufi Thought at the Turn of the Century (1882-1908)
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.
15 April 2024
Blogpost
Elisa Heuser
The Welsh Fasting Girl: A Morbid Spectacle
The story of Sarah Jacob is a tragic one. On 17 December 1869, when she was not yet 13 years old, she died of starvation. There was no shortage of food or unwillingness to provide her with food, had she asked for it. Her family, trained nurses, and male doctors were around her when she passed away, but they all quite literally watched her die…
Category: Research, Scholarships
28 March 2024
Blogpost
Sarah Maria Noske
‘No Shows’ and Other Forms of Refusal: Reading Missionary Letters about the Loyalty Islands
As part of my PhD study, I am investigating and tracing the history of the island communities of the Ruapuke Mission Station in the Foveaux Strait in southern New Zealand and of the Loyalty Islands north-east of New Caledonia. […] I am interested in how these communities and their lives changed in the context of the mission stations that were established on the islands, and how colonialism was negotiated in these gaps of the ‘webs of empire’.
Category: Research, Scholarships
Interview
Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König
Bad pennies and revolting peasants:
a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
2 April 2024
, 0:19 h
Interview
Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König
Bad pennies and revolting peasants:
a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
GHIL Lecture
Philipp Rössner
Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:
Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
2 April 2024
, 0:41 h
GHIL Lecture
Philipp Rössner
Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins:
Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
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
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
Scholarship
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
6 month stipendiary fellowship, starting 1 October 2024
The Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and the German Historical Institute London intend to appoint a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
London
Closing date for applications: 15 May 2024