📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

Applications close 26 September! 📯👇 #skystorians #historysky

200 years Museum Island in Berlin! 🎂 🎈💥💫 What has changed, or rather, what has to change in the age of repatriation? Delighted to be part of new documentaries by ARTE @artefr.bsky.social & Deutsche Welle @news.dw.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnoz... Tune in on Sunday (ARTE) or use the links below.

📢 The German Historical Institute London may be closed at the moment, but our community and research continue... Stay informed about our upcoming events, venues, publications, and news by subscribing to the GHIL Newsletter. 👇 1/2

📇 New on our #blog: 'Compassion Mobilized: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Politics of Animal Welfare in Germany, 1945–2002' by former GHIL scholarship holder Fabian Weber (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) 1/6

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣 We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅 1/3

We are delighted to welcome Sunil Amrith (Yale University) on 13 October 2025, when he will give our next #ThyssenLecture. 📯 His talk is entitled 'Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories'. 1/4

Die MWS ist auch dieses Jahr auf dem #Historikertag in Bonn vertreten. Eine Übersicht mit allen Beiträgen unserer Wissenschaftler*innen gibt es hier: 🔗 gab.hypotheses.org/1...#Historikertag #Historikertag2025 #Bonn #UniBonn #Forschung #Wissenschaft #Geschichtswissenschaft #MWS #WeltweitForschen

📇 In a new GHIL #blog post former #scholarship holder Philipp Höhn (Walter Benjamin Fellow @ox.ac.uk) explores how local actors in late medieval England employed maritime violence as a tool for economic control. 1/7

🤩 This summer brought us two exciting new volumes in our series with the @ghilondon.bsky.social @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social

Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social

#WeekendListening sorted! 🎧 Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. 1/4

I'm Susanne Baumann - Germany's new Ambassador to the UK and I'm delighted to be back in London, where I started my diplomatic career. I and my colleagues in London and Berlin are now looking forward to implementing the Kensington Treaty, the historic 🇬🇧🇩🇪 friendship treaty.

The latest issue of 'German History' is available online! The special issue: 'Anglo-German Empire between Nationalist Antagonism and Transimperial Cooperation, 1895-1925' has been guest edited by Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) academic.oup.com/gh/...

#GermanHistSoc2025 starts TOMORROW! We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough! You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...

Call for Papers from @thomashkaal.bsky.social and I for a Sound Studies panel @imc-leeds.bsky.social "Listening to Medieval Life: New Possibilities in Historical Sound Studies". Please consider joining us, we'd love to *hear* from you! Deadline 15 Sept. #cfp #imc2026

#CallforApplications 📣 The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜 1/3

#CfA Doktorats- und Habilitationsstipendien 📌 vergeben vom @ghilondon.bsky.social | für Promovierende und Postdocs | bis zu 3 Monate | zur Quellenarbeit in Großbritannien und Irland Bewerbungsschluss: 30. September 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

In March 2024, I had the pleasure of visiting the @ghilondon.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Fellow – many thanks for hosting me!!! I also contributed a short piece to their blog: "How to Commemorate #Railways at 200? Unearthing Histories of #Maintenance, Global #Material Flows, and #Colonialism" 👇🛤️🚂

As we commemorate the bicentenary of modern railways in 2025, what narratives are we leaving out? 🚂 1/6

Im Januar 2025 fand im @ghilondon.bsky.social eine Diskussion zwischen Wissenschaftler*innen des Instituts statt, bei der es um die Arbeit in Archiven und die Herausforderungen mit den Materialien ging. Eine Zusammenfassung der Diskussion gibt es auf dem GHIL-Blog: 🔗 ghil.hypotheses.org/...

📢New in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social Open Access www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Wishing everyone a happy bank holiday weekend! ☀️ Our doors may be closed for the moment, but you can stay up-to-date with our work by subscribing to the GHIL newsletter: www.ghil.ac.uk/subsc... #bankholidayweekend #historicalresearch #johnnash #architecture

The predicaments of the early 21st century seem to call established narratives of modern trajectories into question. Environmental crisis and the shock of the Anthropocene coincide with disillusionment about classical tales of Western liberty, emancipation, and conquest of planetary space. 🌍 1/3

Have you read our latest GHIL Bulletin issue yet? 📘 1/4

Dear colleagues and friends, A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨

Out now! 📘 Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India, edited by GHIL Senior Research Fellow and Head of our India Research Programme Indra Sengupta, Geetha B. Nambissan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), 1/10

Very happy about our Summer School on "Nature, Capitalism, and Empire" - and a bit sad that it's over already. Thanks so much to our colleagues at @ghilondon.bsky.social!

That's a wrap on our 2025 Summer School! ✅ Thank you to our co-organisers from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬ and @globaldiscnct.bsky.social‬, our two distinguished tutors, Samita Sen (Cambridge) and Tirthankar Roy (LSE), and, of course, our brilliant students, 1/2

In case you missed it: Nicholas Courtman’s recent lecture, ‘(Un)Welcome Returns? Re-Naturalisation Rights of German Jews in Germany’, is now available to stream. lbilondon.ac.uk/courtman-25 lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify apple.co/45jkHzq @ncourtman.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social

How was European knowledge of Swahili produced? New archival research by former GHIL scholarship holder Florian Balbiani (@unierfurt.bsky.social‬) looks at Swahili studies to examine the history of African linguistics & philology as a missionary practice & academic discipline the 1840s-1940s. 1/4

Nur noch vier Tage, um sich für unsere Herbstuniversität zu bewerben! »Raum, Zeit und Person. Aktuelle Zugänge der Historischen Grundwissenschaften« Wann: 27.–31. Oktober 2025 Wo: DHIP Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Juli 2025 Mehr […] [Original post on wisskomm.social]

Only 1 week left to apply for our #PhD prize! 👇 #skystorians #historyphd

#CfA Joint Fellowship 📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism Deadline: 26 September 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

Very happy that my post for @ghilondon.bsky.social blog is out now! Follow the link to learn more about interwar period debates about female police officers and what they reveal about contemporary understandings of gender, profession and #sexualviolence: ghil.hypotheses.org/3751

New on the GHIL blog! 📇 Former scholarship holder Lisa Hellriegel's (@lisamirabai.bsky.social‬, University of Bremen) blog post analyses debates about employing female police officers and doctors to handle sexual violence cases in inter-war Britain. 1/4

Only 1 week left to apply for our #PhD prize! 👇 #skystorians #historyphd

Happening on Thursday! GHIL Fellow Mallika Leuzinger joins chair Philip Carter, Academic Director @royalhistsoc.org, to discuss curatorial strategies, demographic entities, funding structures, political ideologies, and concerns about data collection attached to emergent archives. Sign up now 👇

Call for applications 📢 The GHI London-India Research Programme and the @mwfdelhi.bsky.social invite applications for their joint fellowship for early career scholars whose research is situated in the broad field of the British Empire and the History of Colonialism! 1/3

🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship 🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET) Details👇 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f... @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social

#CfA Postgraduate Students and Postdoc #Scholarships 📍 for research projects in #Britain | up to three months beginning from January 2026 | awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social Deadline: 30 September 2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

How did Sufis navigate the complex political landscape of late 19th-century Egypt under British occupation? 1/4

New on the GHIL #podcast! 🎧 European cultures tend to overlook voids, or, at best, see them as unpleasant phenomena. 1/8

2 weeks left to apply! 📢👇 #skystorians #historysky #historyphd

In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️ 1/6

Congratulations to Professor Gudrun Krämer on winning the 2025 Prize of the Historisches Kolleg! We were honoured to have her as a speaker in our #ThyssenLecture series, where she presented a talk entitled 'Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East'.

New library opening times! 📚 During the summer, our library will be open from 9:30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday. New readers, please come in to register before 3pm. We look forward to seeing you soon! #londonlibrary #researchlibrary #historybooks

Join us tonight @imc-leeds.bsky.social! 👇 #IMC2025 #medievalsky

📣 Apply for the Prize of the German Historical Institute London! 🎓 It is awarded annually for an outstanding #PhD thesis on - German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), - British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), 1/3