The German Historical Institute London is a centre of research for German and British academics and students. As part of the Max Weber Foundation, it is one of a group of eleven German institutes for humanities research outside Germany, and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The GHIL is extremely popular with historians of all eras working on colonial history and global relations or the history of Great Britain and Ireland. The Institute is also an important meeting point for UK historians whose research concerns the history of the German-speaking lands. Key to this is its comprehensive and up-to-date library, with its main focus on German history.
Christina von Hodenberg is the Director of the GHI London and a Professor of European History at Queen Mary University of London. She specializes in media, social, protest and gender history. Her first two monographs explored the role of Prussian judges during the revolution of 1848–1849 and Germany’s most famous working-class protest, the 1844 revolt of Silesian weavers. She then wrote a survey of post-1945 political journalism in West Germany (2006), a comparative study on the social impact of television during the1970s (Television’s Moment, 2015) and a revisionist account of late 1960s protest (Das andere Achtundsechzig, 2018).