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There is a lot going on at the German Historical Institute, both within and without the walls of our beautiful building on London’s Bloomsbury Square. With this blog, we want to share with you insights into ongoing research projects, reflections on current debates in our fields, notes from scholarship holders, and reports on events and publications. If you would like to be notified about future posts, you can sign up for our RSS feed. You can browse all of our posts, past and present, in the dropdown menus or go straight to the blog.


 
 

26 June 2025

Blogpost

Lisa Hellriegel

‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Interwar Period Tell us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence

Category: Research, Scholarships


13 June 2025

Blogpost

Talha Murat

An Intellectual Sufi between Empires: Muhammad Tawfīq al-Bakrī (1870–1932)

Category: Research, Scholarships


6 June 2025

Blogpost

Bodo Mrozek

From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Part 3—Deindustrialization as Pollution Export: From Pittsburgh and Chicago to Baghdad and Delhi

Category: Research, Scholarships


23 May 2025

Blogpost

Lucas Haasis

The Concordia: A Global Microhistory of a Bremen Ship

Category: Research, Scholarships


16 May 2025

Blogpost

Bodo Mrozek

From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Part 2: Sniffer Squads on the Odour Trail: Smog in Frankfurt

Category: Research, Scholarships


9 May 2025

Blogpost

Thiago P. Barbosa

Germany–India Entanglements in the Scientific Racialization of Caste

Category: Research, Publications, Prizes


29 April 2025

Blogpost

Bodo Mrozek

From London Fog to Frankfurt Smog: Sensing Anthropogenic Weather Conditions from a Transurban Perspective in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Part 1: Shades of Yellow, Black, and Grey: The London ‘Pea Souper’, The ‘Manchester Entire’, and Sooty Hamburg around 1900

Category: Research, Scholarships


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


17 March 2025

Blogpost

Karolin Wetjen

Collecting Weather Data: The Use of Scientific Instruments in Nineteenth-Century Climate Research

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 March 2025

Blogpost

Felix Wessel

The End of the Guilds in Syria

Category: Research, Scholarships


19 February 2025

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Frauke Ahrens

Facets of Transnationalism in the Late Nineteenth Century: New Perspectives on the History of Folklore Studies

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 February 2025

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Sophie Schmittzehe

Sketching Conceptual History's ‘Janus Face’: Reinhart Koselleck and Karl Löwith

Category: Research


16 January 2025

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Maya Kreiner

‘More a denial than a safeguard of rights’: Law, Politics and Constitutional Discussions in Mandatory Palestine

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 January 2025

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Katharina Troll

European Integration Re-Woven: British and West German Textile Employers' Associations and European Integration, 1958-1980

Category: Research, Scholarships


 
 

Previous blogposts

2024

12 December 2024

Blogpost

Leonie Wolters

Human Interest in the Global South: The Gemini News Service (1967-2002)

Category: GHIL Fellows, Research


28 November 2024

Blogpost

William King

(De)Constructing Europe? Some Findings . . .

Category: GHIL Fellows, Research


14 November 2024

Blogpost

Damiana Salm

‘Fuel Poverty’ and the Crisis of Welfare in Britain, 1970s–1980s

Category: Research, Scholarships


31 October 2024

Blogpost

Olivia Mayer

‘Alionor Cobhame conspyryd the kynges deth’: The Magic Trial of Eleanor Cobham, 1441

Category: Research, Scholarships


10 October 2024

Blogpost

Catharina Hänsel

‘The problem is organising time, not work.’ : Exploring Working Time Regulations and the Determination of ‘Scientific Wages’ in Ahmedabad through the Archives of the Wellcome Collection, London

Category: Research, Scholarships


2 September 2024

Blogpost

Flemming Falz

‘Consider Margaret Thatcher’s premiership as ground zero for the mess we are in now.’ The British Housing Crisis in Non-Fiction

Category: Research, Scholarships


15 July 2024

Blogpost

Josefine Langer Shohat

Too German for Holocaust Research? Alfred Wiener and Louis de Jong on the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1952

Category: Research, Scholarships


1 July 2024

Blogpost

Kay Schmücking

Britain’s View of the German Cult of the Dead: A Media History Perspective

Category: Research, Scholarships


17 June 2024

Blogpost

Felicitas Remer

‘Political Balance’ or ‘Natural Growth’? The British Mandate, Meir Dizengoff, and the Struggle over Tel Aviv Port in the 1920s and 1930s

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 June 2024

Blogpost

Stephan Bruhn

Social Inequality: Early Medieval Perspectives on a Modern-Day Challenge

Category: GHIL Fellows, Research


15 May 2024

Blogpost

Ana Carolina Schveitzer

Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation

Category: Research, Scholarships


1 May 2024

Blogpost

Mirjam Brusius

Museums Under Construction: On Loss, Disorder, Destruction, and Objects in Storerooms

Category: GHIL Fellows, Research


15 April 2024

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Elisa Heuser

The Welsh Fasting Girl: A Morbid Spectacle

Category: Research, Scholarships


28 March 2024

Blogpost

Sarah Maria Noske

‘No Shows’ and Other Forms of Refusal: Reading Missionary Letters about the Loyalty Islands

Category: Research, Scholarships


29 February 2024

Blogpost

Janis Meder

Competition between Profit and Principles: The ‘Natural’ Market Niche in 1980s Britain

Category: Research, Scholarships


24 January 2024

Blogpost

Maxine Hart

The German Naval Memorial in Laboe

Category: Research


2023

21 December 2023

Blogpost

James Krull

Trial and Error: The Federal Republic of Germany’s Failed First National Day of Remembrance and Where to Go from There

Category: Publications


23 November 2023

Blogpost

Christopher Dillon & Kim Wünschmann

The German Revolution of 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses

Category: Publications


9 November 2023

Blogpost

Lea Levenhagen

A Short Walk through London’s History during the Second World War: Financial Experts in Exile

Category: Research, Scholarships


10 October 2023

Blogpost

Maximilian Rose

Philip Quaque in Cape Coast 1766–1816

Category: Research, Scholarships


28 September 2023

Blogpost

Kim Embrey

Sing a Line with Coca Wine: The European Rediscovery of Coca

Category: Research, Scholarships


12 September 2023

Blogpost

Philipp Molderings

The Postcolonial Nation in the Museum: World Appropriation and National Identity at the Humboldt Forum and British Museum

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 August 2023

Blogpost

Annika Stendebach

All Along the Peace Walls – Revisiting 1960s and 1970s Belfast

Category: Research, Scholarships


11 July 2023

Blogpost

Frieda Ottmann

A View of Europe through the Prism of the Rhine

Category: Research, Scholarships


29 June 2023

Blogpost

Almuth Ebke

Essays and Reviews: The ‘Greatest Religious Crisis of the Victorian Age’?

Category: Research, Scholarships


13 June 2023

Blogpost

Beatrice Blümer

Studia humanitatis in Text and Image: The Liber insularum Archipelagi by Cristoforo Buondelmonti

Category: Research, Scholarships


16 May 2023

Blogpost

Daniela Roberts

Creating Space and Collection Display in British Gothic Revival Houses (1740–1860)

Category: Research, Scholarships


13 April 2023

Blogpost

Dorothea McEwan

Eduard Zander in Ethiopia, 1847–68

Category: Publications


28 March 2023

Blogpost

Dorothea McEwan

Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl, and Gertrud Bing

Category: Publications


9 March 2023

Blogpost

Ole Merkel

Socialism and Slavery within the British and German Socialist Labour Movements, 1830–1890

Category: Research, Scholarships


16 February 2023

Blogpost

Jonas Bechtold

The Emperor’s Diet or the Empire’s Reichstag? Sixteenth-Century English Wordplay on the ‘Diet’ and its Heuristic Use

Category: Research, Scholarships


26 January 2023

Blogpost

Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke

Botany in Time and Space: The Chelsea Physic Garden

Category: Research, Scholarships


11 January 2023

Blogpost

Martin Kristoffer Hamre

Promoting German Nazism in the Heart of the British Empire: The London Congress of the ‘Nationalist International’ in July 1935

Category: Research, Scholarships


2022

15 December 2022

Blogpost

Stephan Bruhn & Marcus Meer

Conference Report: The Politics of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages, 1–2 September 2022

Category: Events


22 November 2022

Blogpost

Haureh Hussein

Māori Iwi, Quaker Whalers, and Missionaries at the Bay of Islands in Aotearoa/New Zealand (1790–1840)

Category: Research, Scholarships


3 November 2022

Blogpost

Katharina Breidenbach

Pastors, Commissaries, Diplomats: Agency and Migration Networks in the Early Modern Period

Category: Research, Scholarships


28 September 2022

Blogpost

Levke Harders and Falko Schnicke

Borders and Belonging: Subjects of Current and Historical Significance

Category: Publications


8 September 2022

Blogpost

Christina Bröker

Anger, Astonishment, and other Reactions: A Medieval King’s Emotional Behaviour

Category: Research, Scholarships


28 July 2022

Blogpost

Marcus Meer

Conference Report: Workshop on Medieval Germany, 6 May 2022

Category: Events


14 July 2022

Blogpost

Lukas Herde

‘Enjoy your bodies!’: Writing the History of Sexuality in Later Life through 1980s British Television

Category: Research, Scholarships


23 June 2022

Blogpost

Christian Schuster

British Migrants in the Kingdom of Saxony and Saxons in London, c.1850–1914

Category: Research, Scholarships


9 June 2022

Blogpost

Oscar Broughton

Translating Guild Socialism: The Case of Eva Schumann (1889–1967)

Category: Research, Scholarships


31 May 2022

Blogpost

Maximilian Priebe

Conceptual History as a Philosophical Methodology: The Case of Hans Blumenberg’s Metaphorology

Category: Research


26 May 2022

Blogpost

Maximilian Priebe

What Is, and To What End Do We Study, Intellectual History?: A Comparison of Two Approaches: The ‘Cambridge School’ and ‘Conceptual History’

Category: Research


5 May 2022

Blogpost

Marie Cabadi

Women’s Centres and their Newsletters: Feminist Spaces and Print Cultures in Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom

Category: ISWG, Research


21 April 2022

Blogpost

Chantal Bsdurrek

A Brotherhood of Soldiers? Concepts of Comradeship 1914–1938

Category: Research, Scholarships


5 April 2022

Blogpost

Martin Christ

Recording the Dead in Early Modern London and Munich

Category: Research, Scholarships


22 March 2022

Blogpost

Michael Schaich

New Publication on Manuscript Newsletters around 1700

Category: Publications


24 February 2022

Blogpost

Kassandra Hammel

Conference Report: The History of Medialization and Empowerment: The Intersection of Women’s Rights Activism and the Media, 20–21 January 2022

Category: Events, ISWG, Research


17 February 2022

Blogpost

Cristina Sasse

Directories and the Legibility of Urban Spaces, 1760–1830

Category: Publications


1 February 2022

Blogpost

Anita Klingler

Talking about Political Violence in Interwar Britain and Germany

Category: Prizes, Research


20 January 2022

Blogpost

Anne M. Valk

Imagining a Transnational and Transhistorical Movement Against Violence

Category: ISWG, Research


11 January 2022

Blogpost

Vicente Pons Martí

Perspectives on Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Category: Research, Scholarships


2021

9 December 2021

Blogpost

Joseph Cronin

The Future of Holocaust Studies in Light of the ‘Catechism Debate’: Reflections from an Observer

Category: Dialogue


18 November 2021

Blogpost

Jane Freeland

The Politics of Photography: An Interview with Mary-Ann Kennedy

Category: Events, Research, ISWG


11 November 2021

Blogpost

Marcus Meer

Conference Report: The Twelfth Medieval History Seminar, 30 September–2 October 2021

Category: Events


28 October 2021

Blogpost

Alexandria Ruble

Sustaining ‘Information for Women’: The Informationsdienst für Frauenfragen, the American Military Occupation, and Women’s Politics in West Germany, 1951–1990

Category: Research, ISWG


28 September 2021

Blogpost

Maissan Hassan

‘Doing Well, Don’t Worry’: Exhibiting Archives as a Feminist Practice

Category: ISWG, Research


15 September 2021

Blogpost

Sabrina Mittermeier

#IchBinHanna: What next?

Category: Dialogue, Race, History, Academia


31 August 2021

Blogpost

Jane Freeland

Understanding Social Change through the Digital Humanities

Category: Research, ISWG


28 July 2021

Blogpost

Charlotta Salmi

Framing Women’s Rights in Nepali Street Art

Category: ISWG, Research


13 July 2021

Blogpost

Julian Katz

Intervention on Behalf of Foreign Subjects during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585–1604

Category: Publications, Research


1 July 2021

Blogpost

Rike Szill

Prophecies and (Hi)Stories: Telling the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453

Category: Research, Scholarships


17 June 2021

Blogpost

Johanna Gehmacher

The Production of Historical Feminisms, Part Two: Transnational Strategies and the Feminist ‘We’

Category: ISWG, Research


8 June 2021

Blogpost

Dorothea McEwan

Ethiopia Illustrated: Manuscripts and Painting in Ethiopia – Examples from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Category: Publications, Research


27 May 2021

Blogpost

Johanna Gehmacher

The Production of Historical Feminisms, Part One: Historical Awareness and Political Activism

Category: ISWG, Research


6 May 2021

Blogpost

Paul Labelle

Britten’s Virtual Mystery

Category: Research, Scholarships


27 April 2021

Blogpost

Kirsten Kamphuis

Not your Average National Hero: Scattered Archives and the Women of the Indonesian Anticolonial Movement

Category: ISWG, Research


13 April 2021

Blogpost

Manuel Kohlert

Vicarious Observation: Conveying Pleasure and Sensory Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Periodicals

Category: Research, Scholarships


30 March 2021

Blogpost

Jennifer L. Rodgers

The Spaces Between: Interstitial Archives and Childbirth Activism in 1970s West Germany and the United States

Category: ISWG, Research


16 March 2021

Blogpost

Birte Meinschien

Historiography in Emigration: German Historians in Great Britain after 1933

Category: Publications


4 March 2021

Blogpost

Matthias Büttner

Days of Betrayal: Violations of Trust and Loyalty in Late Medieval England

Category: Research, Scholarships


23 February 2021

Blogpost

D-M Withers

Knowledge Trouble: Practice, Theory and Anxiety in late 1970s Feminist Movements

Category: ISWG, Research


10 February 2021

Blogpost

Morgan Golf-French

Beyond Heroes and Villains: Reassessing Racism in the German Enlightenment

Category: Race, History, and Academia, Research


28 January 2021

Blogpost

Jane Freeland et al.

Conference Report: ‘Archiving, Recording and Representing Feminism: The Global History of Women’s Emancipation in the Twentieth Century’

Category: Events, ISWG


20 January 2021

Blogpost

Marcus Meer

Broken Symbols: Display and Destruction during the Attack on the Capitol

Category: Research


14 January 2021

Blogpost

Pierre Sfendules

An Ancient Church Father and his Victorian Audience: Christian von Bunsen’s...

Category: Research


6 January 2021

Blogpost

Nuriani Hamdan et al.

"Who remains?" (Part 1): Before we even start our research…

Category: Race, History, and Academia


2020

21 December 2020

Blogpost

Jane Freeland

The Allure of the Archive: On Frustration and Comfort in the Historian’s Craft

Category: Events, ISWG


17 December 2020

Blogpost

Debarati Bagchi

National Education Policy 2020: A Discussion on Educational Policy Reform in India, 14 October 2020

Category: Events, India Branch Office


4 December 2020

Blogpost

Stephan Bruhn

Medieval Notions of Consent and Contemporary Social Cohesion: Impressions from Workshop ‘Law and Consent in Medieval Britain’, 30 October 2020

Category: Events, Research


26 November 2020

Blogpost

Jane Freeland

The Media, Feminism and Women’s Emancipation: The International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment

Category: ISWG, Research


19 November 2020

Blogpost

Yamini Agarwal

‘Is this home? Not so much!’ – Gender, Ethnicity and Belongingness to the City

Category: India Branch Office, Research


5 November 2020

Blogpost

Marcus Meer

The GHIL’s New Website and the History of the Web

Category: Announcements


16 October 2020

Blogpost

Christina Morina and Norbert Frei

Racism and Historiography

Category: Dialogue, Race, History, and Academia


6 October 2020

Blogpost

Dipanwita Donde

The Greedy Dog – Gestures, Postures and Emotions Portraying Degrees of Vice and Virtue in the Sixteenth-Century Iyār-i Dānish

Category: Research


29 September 2020

Blogpost

Mirjam Brusius

History is Located Inside, not Outside Racial Biases – Can Historians in Germany Break the Silence after Black Lives Matter? (Part 2)

Category: Dialogue, Race, History, and Academia


24 September 2020

Blogpost

Mirjam Brusius

History is Located Inside, not Outside Racial Biases – Can Historians in Germany Break the Silence after Black Lives Matter? (Part 1)

Category: Dialogue, Race, History, and Academia


22 September 2020

Blogpost

Michael Schaich

Manuscript News Sheets: A Neglected Medium of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Category: Research


15 September 2020

Blogpost

Olga Witmer

Germans, the Dutch East India Company, and Early Colonial South Africa

Category: Research, Scholarships


10 July 2020

Blogpost

Christina von Hodenberg

Welcome to the blog of the German Historical Institute London!

Category: Announcements