The institute is a centre of research for German and British academics and students. It organises international conferences, seminars and postgraduate workshops and annually awards a prize for outstanding theses as well as numerous scholarships and internships.

The publications of the DHI London – theses, dissertations, professorial treatises, conference volumes as well as the Edition British Envoys to Germany – are published by Oxford or Cambridge University Press and Oldenbourg Press. The extensive library and periodicals room ("Common Room") offer an important starting point for historians from across the globe.

Founded: 1976 (formerly "Verein zur Förderung des Britisch-Deutschen Historikerkreises e.V. - Association to Promote the Anglo-German Historian Circle")

Positions: 27 (average number according to recorded information, including project staff)

Areas of Research:
British History from the Early Middle Ages up to and including contemporary history, History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, History of German-British Relations

Service:
Library: approx. 86,000 media items on German History and the History of the Anglo-German relations

In memory of the former director of the German Historical Institute London, the institute annually awards the "Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize" to the author of an outstanding piece of German research on British History. The prize covers the cost of translating the work into English and publishing it in the institute’s series: "Studies in British and Imperial History".

Promotion of Young Academics:
Internships and research scholarships for young academics, PhD students and postdoctoral students, annual PhD conference for British doctoral candidates researching German or German-British history, annual week-long summer school for on British history, award for outstanding dissertations in the field of German, British and German-British history, internship programme, Junior Research Fellowship with the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London

Publications:
- British Envoys to Germany
- Studies in British and Imperial History
- Studies of the German Historical Institute London
- Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London/Publications of the German Historical Institute London
- German Historical Institute London Bulletin
- Annual Lectures

Events:
Seminars and lectures, conferences and workshops, Annual Lecture, colloquium for scholarship holders and exhibitions, GHIL Debates about current academic and academic policy issues, Lectures on Contemporary German History in collaboration with the German Embassy in London, cooperation with the Institute of Historical Research and the History Faculty Oxford

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