New blog post by former GHIL scholarship holder Christin Hansen (Universität Paderborn) examining the participation of women in the Spanish Civil War. 📇 1/4

Season's Greetings and frohe Weihnachten from everyone at the GHIL! 🎄🏗

New on the GHIL blog! 📇 “Who’s Responsible? ‘Illegitimate’ Children in England and Wales” Former GHIL scholarship holder Geena Carlisle’s (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) work explores changing ideas of family and parental responsibility in England and Wales after 1945. 🫂 1/3

Noch 2 1/2 Wochen bis Bewerbungsschluss! 📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026 2 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase) mit einem Forschungsinteresse • in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts 1/3

#CfP Medieval Germany Workshop 📌 1 Day #Workshop at #GHILondon | 29 May 2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social | for #researchers to discuss work in progress 📝 Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 February 2026 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Call for papers for our Medieval Germany Workshop organised in cooperation with the German History Society (@germanhistsoc.bsky.social)! 📯 📅 29 May 2026 📍GHIL 1/5

Only a few days left to apply! Join our team as an Assistant to the Director/Assistant Events Officer: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7... Deadline: 14 December 2025 #academicsky #jobad #londonjob

Happening tomorrow! Join us in person or online for the last lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages'. Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #medievalmonday #medievalhistory

Looking forward to this lecture next week!

Last week we hosted (with the German Historical Institute London) the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture. Prof Anja Laukötter delivered her talk 'Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History'. #history #germany #LSE #event

1 week to go until the final lecture in our autumn/winter series! Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages': www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory

Another #JobAlert! 📯 The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director. 1/2

Now on the GHIL #Blog: A three-part series on the migration history of Wales by Andrea Hammel (@andreahammel.bsky.social)! 1/3

Another #JobAlert! 📯 The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director. 1/2

For anyone interested in resources for German Studies in the UK, may I draw your attention to this one-day colloquium at the British Library on 15 December: gslg.org.uk/2025/10/31/g... I will be speaking about the @ghilondon.bsky.social Library and the programme as a whole looks very interesting.

Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages': 📅 9 December 2025 📍Pushkin House, London ⏰ 5:30pm GMT 🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... 1/7

Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)! 📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT) 📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom 👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern... @lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

Join us for the book discussion of Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India on 8 December. Edited by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social.

Happening tomorrow! Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... #colonialhistory #skystorians

#JobAlert Jetzt Teil des @ghilondon.bsky.social werden! 👉https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58fcd3d14181f381bc7f1dbccdcc84832a1591280

and stay tuned!! We expand the analysis in a large-scale project! Meanwhile, you can also listen to this @ghilondon.bsky.social podcast: www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...

#JobAlert 📯 📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026 zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase) 🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse • in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts und/oder 1/3

Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...

I am very happy my article on the secret training facilities of the British Army of the Rhine for postings in Northern Ireland during the Troubles has now been published! Thank you @ghilondon.bsky.social for the excellent cooperation. www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...

Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion. Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm. Book now: lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25

Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)! 📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT) 📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom 👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern... @lsehy.bsky.social @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop' Workshop date: 29 May 2026 Submissions due: 15 February 2026 www.germanhistorysoc...

We had a great time introducing scholarship holders to the work of the German Historical Institute at the Studienstiftung's Networking Fair on Friday! It was wonderful to meet so many engaged and curious young people. Many thanks for the opportunity! 1/2

Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation! 1/2

📢 Don’t miss Anja Laukötter (Universität Jena) on 25 November 2025 for the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture 2025 on 'Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History'! 1/5

Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion. Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm. Book now: lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25

Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII? The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)

#CfP Postgraduate Research Students Conference 📌#Conference in #London | 26-27/02/2026 | organised by @ghilondon.bsky.social | present your work and discuss your research with other students 📝Deadline: 25/11/2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Great news! My wonderful colleague @susannequitmann.bsky.social is this year‘s recipient of the @ghilondon.bsky.social dissertation prize, well-deserved! Congratulations 🥳

Last Friday, we had the great pleasure of presenting the Prize of the German Historical Institute London, which is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. This year’s prize went to Susanne Quitmann (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for her innovative dissertation, 1/2

Happening tomorrow! Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'! Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu.... #urbanhistory

In case you missed it: Erin Hochman’s recent lecture, ‘Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period’, is now available to stream. Tune in now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the LBI London YouTube channel. lbilondon.ac.uk/hochman-25 lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify

Join us for the Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute London on 7 November at 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus on 34 Belgrave Square, London! 📅 This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians. 1/4

Today we were happy to welcome Ambassador Jens Hanefeld – a former Stipendiat at @ghilondon.bsky.social – to our office for a lively discussion about history and diplomacy. Alles gute for your time in Washington, Ambassador!

The new issue of our GHIL Bulletin is out now! 📘 The two articles in the November issue illustrate just how far cultural, social, and intellectual history have left behind the framework of the nation state... 1/4

Happening tomorrow: Join us for our Annual Lecture given by Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.socia) on 'Wine, Organs and Chant. Britain's Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village'! 🍷🎼 Sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Join us tonight for a lecture by Ulrike Lindner (@unicologne.bsky.social)! Taking the ILO as an example, she'll talk about the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and why these are often prerequisites for the persistence of social inequalities: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Join us on 11 November at 5:30pm at Pushkin House or via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'A Tale of Two Cities: Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'! 1/3

What turns a violent event into a “massacre”? A new post on the GHIL Blog by former scholarship holder Michèle Kraft (Herder-Institut) examines how early modern and colonial acts of violence were represented and transmitted through pamphlets, engravings and reports. 📜🗞 1/3

Join us on Wednesday, 5 November, at 5.30pm at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a GHIL Joint Lecture by Ulrike Lindner (Universität zu Köln) organised in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar, @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. 📅 1/9

Join us for the Annual Lecture of the German Historical Institute London on 7 November at 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus on 34 Belgrave Square, London! 📅 This year’s lecture will be held by Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (@goetheuni.bsky.social), one of Germany’s leading modern historians. 1/4

Join us on Wednesday, 5 November, at 5.30pm at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a GHIL Joint Lecture by Ulrike Lindner (Universität zu Köln) organised in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar, @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. 📅 1/9

Join us tomorrow evening at Swedenborg House or online via Zoom for the second lecture in our autumn series given by Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social)! Please sign up here: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu.... #skystorians #historysky

The Franco-German Brigade: Political reconciliation, transnational military culture & model for a European army? The view from England reveals an ambivalent attitude towards the ‘NATO competition’: Benjamin Pfannes on his travel grant at the @ghilondon.bsky.social :

Come and find us at #HistDay25 in two weeks! 👇