German Historical Institute London
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
6 June 2024 (6pm)
Public Lecture
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Berlin)
Ein gespenstisches Welttheater? Der alte Goethe, der junge Hegel und das Ende des Römisch-deutschen Reiches
GHIL/Online
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
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.
3 June 2024
Blogpost
Stephan Bruhn
Social Inequality: Early Medieval Perspectives on a Modern-Day Challenge
Social inequalities are among the most pressing challenges facing us today. Yet they also affected the past in many different ways. Investigating historical inequalities can sharpen our understanding of present-day phenomena. This is true even of an era whose social order no longer exists: the Middle Ages…
Category: GHIL Fellows, 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
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
Scholarships
GHIL-MWF Tandem Fellowship on The British Empire and the History of Colonialism
GHI London-India Research Programme
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Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies New Delhi
Tandem Fellowship: one scholar each from Germany and India
Primarily for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD) working on the history of the British Empire and colonial India
Start date: 2025
Duration: 3 months per scholar
London/New Delhi
Closing date for applications: 27 September 2024 (23.59 hours Central European Time)