GHIL Library

The library of the GHIL is an important and well-regarded institution for British historians of German history, students at London universities, and the general public. Its holdings on German history, British-German relations from the Middle Ages to the present day, and wider European history are comprehensive, up to date, free to use, and form a unique collection in Britain.
Visiting and joining the Library

Opening times:
The library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm.
New readers need to register for a library card and have a short introductory tour of the library before or during their first visit. The induction is available in person (Mo-Fr, 9.30am-4pm) or by appointment online via Zoom (email: library@ghil.ac.uk). A passport photo and recent proof of address must be provided.
Library staff are also available for general enquiries at library@ghil.ac.uk. If appropriate, we may offer you advice via a video call to our Virtual Enquiry Desk.

Natasha A. Kelly, Olive Vassell (eds.)
Mapping Black Europe : monuments, markers, memories
Public History - Angewandte Geschichte. Volume 7
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2023
eBook Open Access

Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft
Black Germany : The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960
Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013
Sa.8/5612

Sara Lennox (ed.)
Remapping Black Germany : new perspectives on Afro-German history, politics, and culture
Amherst, MA. ; Boston, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016
Sa.8/5614

Tiffany N. Florvil and Vanessa D. Plumly (eds.)
Rethinking black German studies : approaches, interventions and histories
Studies in modern German and Austrian literature. Volume 7
Bern ; Berlin ; Wien : Peter Lang, 2018
Sa.8/5601

Ute Kueppers-Braun
Gekauft im Namen des Herrn : afrikanische Kindersklaven in europäischen Klöstern im 19. Jahrhundert : Katholische Mission, Menschenhandel und religiöser Rassismus
Münster : Aschendorff, 2021
(ask librarian)

Tiffany N. Florvil
Mobilizing Black Germany : Afro-German women and the making of a transnational movement
Black internationalism
Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2020
Sk.8/2780

Marion Kraft with Ika Hügel-Marshall (eds.)
Children of the Liberation : Transatlantic Experiences and Perspectives of Black Germans of the Post-War Generation
Transnational cultures. Volume 2
Oxford : Peter Lang, 2020
eBook ProQuest

Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov
Schwarze Europäer im Alten Reich : Handel, Migration, Hof
Transkulturelle Perspektiven. Band 11
Göttingen : V&R unipress, 2013
Sa.8/5625

Fatima El-Tayeb
Schwarze Deutsche : Der Diskurs um "Rasse" und nationale Identität 1890-1933
Frankfurt/M., New York, N.Y. : Campus Verl., 2001
Sf.11/47

Hajo Funke
Black Lives Matter in Deutschland : George Floyd und die Diffamierung von Achille Mbembe als Antisemit : eine Streitschrift über (post)koloniale Konflikte
Hamburg : VSA: Verlag, 2021
Sk.11/277/6

Sophie Lorenz
"Schwarze Schwester Angela" - Die DDR und Angela Davis : Kalter Krieg, Rassismus und Black Power 1965-1975
Histoire. 178
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2020
eBook ProQuest

Tina Campt
Other Germans : Black Germans and the politics of race, gender and memory in the Third Reich
Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2004
Sh.8/128/1

Pablo Schmelzer
Black and White, unite and fight : die deutsche 68er-Bewegung und die Black Panther Party
Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, HIS, 2021
Sk.8/2484

Kira Thurman
Singing like Germans : black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2021
eBook ProQuest

Oumar Diallo, Joachim Zeller (eds.)
Black Berlin : die deutsche Metropole und ihre afrikanische Diaspora in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Berlin : Metropol, 2013
(ask librarian)

Contact and opening hours
Contact
German Historical Institute Library
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050
Email: library@ghil.ac.uk
Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 9.30am-9pm