German Historical Institute London
Bank holiday closure
The Institute, including the library, will be closed on Monday, 27th May. We will be back to our normal opening hours (Monday–Friday, 9.30am-9pm) from Tuesday, 28th May.
Library Summer Opening Hours
To all Library users: please be aware that our opening hours will change in July and August. Evening opening should return in September.
Until 30th June: Monday–Friday, 9.30am–9pm
From 1st July to 31st August: Monday-Friday, 9.30am–5pm
11 June 2024 (5.30pm)
GHIL Joint Lecture
Ravi Sundaram (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)
Populist Media Aesthetics?
Goldsmiths (RHB 122, Richard Hoggart Building)
12-14 June 2024
Conference
Afterlives of Empire
How Imperial Legacies Shaped European Integration
GHIL
13 June 2024 (6pm)
Leo Baeck Institute Lecture
Dani Kranz (Mexico City)
Jewish Life in Contemporary Germany
Senate House/Online
Library
Open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm
Summer opening hours: 1st July–31st August, Monday–Friday, 9.30am–5pm
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 May 2024
Blogpost
Ana Carolina Schveitzer
Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation
With the support of a GHIL scholarship, I had the opportunity to visit Cambridge University Library in February of 2023 and explore its special collections. As a historian who analyses photographs from the former German colonies in Africa, I was intrigued by one particular box—number 4—labelled ‘German East Africa’ (modern-day Tanzania) with the date range 1910–39…
Category: Research, Scholarships
1 May 2024
Blogpost
Mirjam Brusius
Museums Under Construction: On Loss, Disorder, Destruction, and Objects in Storerooms
Archaeological artefacts from the Ottoman Empire have only recently attracted attention in current debates over decolonization and restitution. Mirjam S. Brusius of the German Historical Institute London is researching the excavation of objects, the role of the local population, and why certain items have languished for decades in the storerooms of European museums.
Category: GHIL Fellows, Research
Interview
Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
23 May 2024
, 0:13 h
Interview
Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
GHIL Lecture
Eva Marlene Hausteiner
Should Federations be Made to Last?
23 May 2024
, 0:35 h
Thyssen Lecture
Sebastian Conrad
Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
1 May 2024
, 0:50 h
Thyssen Lecture
Sebastian Conrad
Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
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
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
German Zeitgeschichte from the Margins: The Post-War Experience of Nazi Victims
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (May 2024), pages 3–25
Featured Article
Pascale Siegrist
A Common Vision of Geography? Pëtr Kropotkin and the Royal Geographical Society, 1876–1921
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (May 2024), pages 26–47
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 2023 and 31 July 2024.
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2024