There is a lot going on at the German Historical Institute, both within and without the walls of our beautiful building on London’s Bloomsbury Square. With this blog, we want to share our work in all the areas that make the GHIL so unique.
Our mission is to support and further humanities research across borders, acting as an intermediary between German, British, and Irish scholars. We support German scholars working in Britain, joint German–British projects, and British scholars teaching and researching German history and culture. Our staff specialises in British and Irish history, British–German and European relations, and imperial and colonial history, from medieval to modern times. We run academic and public events and support international networks, provide research training, award prizes to outstanding scholars, and offer advice to collaborative projects involving German and British researchers. Our short- and long-term fellowships help young humanities scholars access source collections and establish links in Britain and Germany. We publish our research in our own book series, podcasts, and in-house Bulletin. We also produce editions of historical documents and data that are hosted on our website. The doors to our research library, with almost 90,000 books, are open to anyone working on German and German–British history.
With our blog, we invite you to join us on a virtual journey. You can look forward to insights into ongoing research projects, notes from scholarship holders, reflections on current debates in our fields, reports on events and publications, and a series on our India Research Programme.
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Christina von Hodenberg
Director of the GHIL
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I wonder if you would ever use ancestry DNA in your research. If you do please let me know I would love to share mine and see what you can do with it. I keep looking at all my 3-5 cousins on my family tree report and yet, I just cant put it all together.
My dad’s surname was Engelbrecht, I would love to truly understand the circumstances that brought my ancestor to South Africa, I wonder if he ever met his family again. He was never supposed to stay in SA. He got sick in Cape Town and never completed his journey to India. I often wonder how he got out of the contract with VOC and what that truly meant.
Thank you for doing this research!