The one-day conference Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents, held at the University of Southampton on 14 April 2026, brought together scholars from literary studies, history, linguistics, modern languages, Holocaust studies, and cultural memory studies from UK and international institutions. The 17 contributions explored how life-writing operates across...

On Friday 19 June 2026, the Holocaust Research Institute (HRI) at Royal Holloway, University of London, hosted Intersecting Methodologies: Micro and Macro Approaches in Holocaust and Nazi Persecution Studies at Bedford Square, University of London. The one-day workshop was organised by PhD candidates Lewis Champion and Bill Edmonds, and was...

In June 2026, with the support of a German History Society Postgraduate Small Grant, I travelled from Scotland to the site of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace, the only concentration camp the Nazis built on French soil, and spent four days working at its documentation centre, the Centre européen...

During my time in Berlin, I focused on advancing both my archival work and my language skills. The main objective of my visit was not only to complete my archival work, but also to further refine my research focus by identifying the specific psychological theories highlighted in the Stasi training...

Thanks to the kind support of the German History Society, I was able to spend a week this March conducting research at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Dresden. My PhD thesis examined German print on the English Reformation, 1558-1603. I am now...

The two-day ‘Art-Lovers in the World: Engaging with Art and Matter in Early Modernity’ conference took place at Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 and 29 June. The conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars from North America and Europe to discuss the persona of the art-lover and the...

The Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (ANKK) is a German-speaking society devoted to the study of Dutch and Flemish art and culture. Their 2025 annual meeting took place in Aschaffenburg, on the theme of cultural interactions between the Low Countries and Germany. Over three panels, speakers covered a diverse range...

Each year the GHS awards a handful of Postgraduate/ECR Bursaries to individuals studying German history at UK universities. The following blog contains reports from three of these individuals: Lucy McCormick, Ryan Hampton, Emma Paterson. Lucy McCormick I would like to express my gratitude to the German History Society for supporting...

On the 13th of May, a colloquium on the work and legacy of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was held at the University of Oxford. The event brought together two scholars of Arendt: Thomas Meyer, Adjunct Professor for Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Lyndsey Stonebridge...