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German Historical Institute London Podcast — 126 episodes
Epistemic Inequalities, the ILO, and Labour History in the Global South
Epistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
Queer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire
A linguistic legacy: The lasting impact of Reformation-era texts
1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History
Local Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
Picturing working class communities
Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture
Mind the void: The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
The Hole Story: Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
German racial science and modern anthropology in India
Processing history
The Problem with (Historical) Processes: Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic
The power of protest
Contesting Political Spaces: Thoughts on a World History of Street Protest
After Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research
Analysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective: The Example of Germany and Britain
Winners and Losers?: Britain and Germany after the Second World War
Raise, Reuse, Recycle: Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Globalization: a threat to democracy?
‘Post-Democracy’?: Globalization, Democracy, and the Nation State in Germany after 1990
Understanding Power Relations in a Colonial Context: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, In-Between
Religious Decision-Making in the Reformation
Catholic or Protestant in the Reformation: A simple choice?
Criminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955
International Penology in Colonial India: Too Advanced, Too American, Too Expensive?
Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
States of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency
Federations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
Should Federations be Made to Last?
Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
Bad pennies and revolting peasants: a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
Peasants, Wars, and Evil Coins: Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
Global rankings: Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture
Global Connections and Personal Achievements: (De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany
Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism: Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire
The Perception of Colonial Cultural Goods and Human Remains among Communities in the Former German Colony of Togo in the Context of the Restitution Debate
The restitution debate in Togo
Homer’s Heroes in Early Modern Germany: A Translational Anthropology
Pollution and the modern city: Lessons from India's past
India’s Atmospheric Modernity: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City
Imagining India in the Empire of Science
The Classroom as Sensorium: Tactility, Attention, and Perception in the Mysore School, 1860–1930
The history of schooling in colonial India
Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Medicine and the Body in the German Material Renaissance
Analysing Renaissance recipes: Modern chemistry meets Renaissance medicine
Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience: Launch event for Behind the Wire
Mediating Globalism in the Twentieth Century: The Cases of R. Buckminster Fuller and Arno Peters
The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)
The employment contract in Indian labour history
A Genealogy of Labour Regulation in India: The Career of the Employment Contract
The influence of emotions on history
The Power of Emotions in German History
The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’
The Hanseatic League as a National Project
‘A very English superstar’: John Rutter, Popular Classical Music, and Transnational Conservatism since the 1970s
British composer, conductor, and music entrepreneur John Rutter
Captured. 'The Materiality of the Prize Papers' - A Photography Exhibition
A Decolonial Project for Europe
Flawed Humans, or What Makes Technology Better than Humans: Historical Considerations on Humans as ‘Faulty Constructions’
Broken Balance: A Political–Cultural History of Germany since the 1980s
Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media
Frederick the Great and the Public Sphere
Charlotte Beradt and Reinhart Koselleck on Dreaming in the Age of Extremes
Sleeping Through the Ages: Two Lectures on the History of Sleep in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Quest for a New World Order: International Politics Between Visions of Global Governance and Catastrophic Failures in the 1990s
Visions of community in an Age of Viking threat: Our historian Stephan Bruhn discusses his new book
The Past in the Present: Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India
Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany: Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives
Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”
Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism: What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?
‘How I long for the good old days’: Nostalgia and Social Change in the Long Fourteenth Century
Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence: A History of the Present
Contested Asylum: The History of the 2015 Refugee Crisis
New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in India
The Dance of the Tapuya: On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in the Early Modern Period
Legal Role-Playing and Storytelling in Early Medieval Francia
An Empire of Shaming: Reading Nazi Germany through the Violence of Laughter
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: How Popular Demand (not Politicians) Made Britain into a Mass Education Society
Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Population, and Feminism in Europe, 1945–1980
Understanding Women and Work from the Early Modern Era to the Present: A Round Table
Internationalist Waves and Feminist Waves in Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba from the 1950s to 1970s
Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective
From Collected to Contested: The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate
Who Owns Public History?: Two Talks on History Textbooks in Conflicted Societies
Hobbes’s Leviathan: Picturing the State
German and European Unification: Harmony or Dissonance?
National Security and Humanity: The Internment of Civilian 'Enemy Aliens' during the First World War
National Expectations and Transnational Infrastructure: The Media, Global News Coverage, and International Relations in the Age of High Imperialism
Rewriting the British 19th Century
How Close is the 19th Century?: Contemporary Reflections on a History of Europe
Writing a History of 19th-Century Europe: Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities
Writing the History of 19th-Century Europe
Life Cycle and Industrial Work: West German and West European Patterns in Times of Globalization (1975–2005)
Are There Different Cultures of Decision-Making in History?
Home Ties: Objects in Migrants' Lives
Rites of Reserve: The German–Israeli Encounter in Luxembourg, 1952
Max Weber’s work and its Relation to Historical Writing: Panel Discussion
Empire and the Turn to Collectivism in British Social Policy, c.1860–1914
1914: What Historians Don’t Know about the Causes of the First World War: Roundtable Debate
Germany, the Euro Crisis and the Future of Europe
The Moral Economy of Trust: Modern Trajectories
Coffee Worlds: Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany
The Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933 and its Significance, 80 Years On: Public Panel Debate
‘Jetzt Judenfrei’: Writing Tourism in Nazi-Occupied Poland
From Kaiser Wilhelm to Chancellor Merkel: The German Question on the European Stage
Remigration – Three Personal Accounts: Panel Discussion
Goebbels, War, and Propaganda: The Media Logic of the 'Third Reich'
The Insiders’ Views of the Fischer Controversy: Round-Table Discussion
Disgust with the 45ers?: Post-War German Historiography in a Generational Perspective
Relationships of Universities, Museums and other Cultural Institutions to Foundations whose Companies were involved with and Profited from the Holocaust: GHIL Debates
Empires and Colonies: Plenary forum
The German Foreign Office and Nazism: Image and Reality after 1945
Public History: GHIL-Debates
Volksgemeinschaft: Potential and Limitations of the Concept
British and Germans: Perceptions and Misperceptions since the Second World War
The 1970s in Europe: A Period of Promise or Disillusionment?