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German Historical Institute London
@ghilondon.bsky.social
The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de‬.

Currently closed due to renovation works.

https://www.ghil.ac.uk
📅 24-month contract
⏰ Part-time, 32 hours/week

Apply now: karriere.maxwebersti...

#medieval #medievalhistory #middleages #academicjob #historians #DFG #researchjob
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM

📷 Excerpt from Carl Haussknecht’s diary entry of March 21, 1867. 2nd Journey, Volume 1, page 65., CC BY-NC 4.0, creativecommons.org/.... Courtesy of Herbarium Haussknecht JE.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship is a co-operation between the Department of International History, LSE, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the GHIL, and the professor’s home university.

#GermanHistory #ColonialHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfKnowledge #AcademicLecture
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📅 Date & Time: 25 November, 6pm
🏛️ Location: Hybrid at LSE (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building)
🔗 Sign up: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...
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Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History
Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History, Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Her lecture examines the persistence of colonial imaginaries in German history. She argues that 19th‑century knowledge and practices established enduring frameworks that also shape today’s polarized political debates...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
entitled “Reconceptualising Voice: An Exploratory Case Study of British Child Migrants (1869–1970)”.

Congratulations to Dr Quitmann on this remarkable achievement!

#PhD #historyphd #phdprize #phdresearch #historian
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November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Meanwhile, Juliane Röleke (@humboldtuni.bsky.social, @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) unearths the little-known story of how facilities in West Germany were used to train British soldiers for deployments in Northern Ireland, and explores the border-crossing campaigns against them.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi (Berlin) draws our attention to Hinduism and visions of India as a sounding board for debates concerning Catholicism in both nineteenth-century Britain and Germany.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#contemporaryhistory #rome #berlin #urban #urbanhistory #historicalresearch

📷 Roma Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana by Blackcat, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons [cropped]; Humboldt Forum by Hanno Hochmuth.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Martin Baumeister will speak about 'Triumphs and Laments: Uses and Pitfalls of Rome’s Imaginary in the 21st Century' will Hanno Hochmuth will explain why Berlin has often been considered 'The Modern Rome'.

Sign up now: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... 🔗
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November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM