📅 One month to go until the German History Society Annual Conference 2026! Join us at the University of Stirling for keynote lectures, panels, and discussions! Programme & registration: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/ #GermanHistSoc2026

📣 There's not long left to get your applications in for the German History Society’s 2026 prizes and essay awards! We’re inviting submissions for: 🏆 Rethinking German History Prize ✍️ Postgraduate Essay Prize 📚 Undergraduate Essay Prize Find out more and apply: germanhistorysociety.org

📢 Applications are open for the German History Society’s 2026 awards! 🏆 Rethinking German History Prize ✍️ Postgraduate Essay Prize 📚 Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadlines: 19 July (RGH + PG) / 9 July (UG) Find out more: germanhistorysociety.org #GermanHistory #AcademicTwitter #History #Humanities

The deadline is fast approaching for applications for this year's annual conference in Stirling!

German History Society@germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling! The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026. For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

Check out the German History Society's latest funding opportunities on our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/postgraduate... Bursaries, various small grants, and language courses are all available for PGRs and ECRs in German History!

Thanks to @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for publishing my review of 'Interwar Salzburg: Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna', ed. Robert Dassanowsky & Katherine Arens! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @botstiberinstitute.bsky.social @austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

Interwar Salzburg: Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna. Edited by Robert Dassanowsky and Katherine Arens

Salzburg between the wars was a veritable laboratory of cultural expressions and competing identities that drew on its distinct history to offer newly form

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We're pleased to welcome Dr Marcus Böick (Cambridge) for this year's IHR@sheffielduni.bsky.social seminar talking about "Guarding Germany: The History of Private Security Companies in the 20th Century" on 24 March, 4:15pm. Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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The Modern German History seminar focuses on the history of the German-speaking lands since the nineteenth century

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The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling! The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026. For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

Congratulations to Joachim C. Häberlen for his article 'Democracy at Play: Adventure Playgrounds in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967–1984' which has been awarded the German History 2025 Article Prize! You can read the winning article here: doi.org/10.1093/gerh...

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN for the 2026 GHS Postgraduate Essay Prize! Head to the website to find out more: www.germanhistorysoc...

Congratulations to the winner and runners-up of our 2025 Undergraduate Essay Prize! Hear from the awarding committee and learn more about the winning essays here: www.germanhistorysoc...

The final episode in Series 2 of Glimpses of German History is now LIVE! In this episode, Amelia Hutchinson tells us about Philipp Hainhofer's seventeenth century Pomeranian Cabinet and its grandiose past - check out the video here: youtu.be/yML0xYIxXIQ 1/2

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents University of Southampton, 14 April 2026 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute). More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

Check out Episode 6 of 'Glimpses of German History' now LIVE on our YouTube channel In the episode, Deborah Jaffe shows us a Samovar that has been in her family for generations. It is an object that tells an emotive story about forced Jewish migration across Europe. youtu.be/gY7MgBIu7vU 1/2

In association with the @ghilondon.bsky.social - the GHS is pleased to invite papers for the 2026 'Medieval Germany Workshop' Workshop date: 29 May 2026 Submissions due: 15 February 2026 www.germanhistorysoc...

In Episode 5 of 'Glimpses of German History' , Hans Hönes takes us inside the chapel of Blairs College in Aberdeen to gaze upon a spectacular set of stained glass windows. youtu.be/n4NX7mXKxdA

Congratulations to Anja Segmüller and Emma Paterson, the winner and runner-up respectively of our Postgraduate Essay Prize 2025! To find out more about their winning essays check out our website here: www.germanhistorysoc...

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

#Teachers make sure you check out GHS's annual Creative Research Contest - entries are open now! For more information, head to our website at: www.germanhistorysoc...

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arndt Emmerich (University of Hertfordshire) on being awarded the 2025 Rethinking German History Prize for his article in @csshjournal.bsky.social Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...

The following CFP may be of interest to our followers!

Dr. Charlie Knight@charlieknight.bsky.social · 10mo ago

CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026 We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton! Please share!!

Episode 3 is OUT NOW! In this episode Johanna Dale (UCL) explores how the head of a seventh century English king became so important to people living in twelfth century Germany. youtu.be/7xI6PzW6R-o 1/2

The next episode of Series 2 of 'Glimpses of German History' is OUT NOW! In this episode, Anne Buckley (Leeds) takes us to a field in Skipton, North Yorkshire which housed a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. youtu.be/WDqGQw7TY5w 1/2

The next round of GHS Small Grant funding is now open! We support conferences and workshops such as the fantastic colloquium recently held at the University of Oxford with @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer. Read more about it on the GHS Blog here: www.germanhistorysoc... 1/2

Episode 1 of Series 2 of our documentary series 'Glimpses of German History' is now available on YouTube! In this episode @sandralipner.bsky.social shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in post-war Germany.

Glimpses of German History S2E1: Denazification Questionnaire

In the first episode of Glimpses of German History Season 2, Sandra Lipner shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in postwar Germany. The questionnaire was intended by the occupying Allies to categorise people in terms of their previous in

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Check out our latest blog post from Leah Lawford (Exeter) reflecting on her trip to Sydney, funded by the German History Society! "The trip provided valuable insight into the Jewish and Holocaust survivor community in Sydney" www.germanhistorysoc...

The GHS is proud to support a range of different projects through our 'Small Grants' funding Check out our latest blog from @caileedavis.bsky.social reflecting on the Holocaust studies networking event at the Imperial War Museum London www.germanhistorysoc...

📽️ Season 2 of 'Glimpses of German History', coming soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFin...

Glimpses of German History Season 2: Trailer

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The following event at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Holocaust Library on internment in the two world wars may be of interest to our members. All are welcome but tickets must be booked - there is limited capacity so book soon! wienerholocaustlibra...

The GHS is saddened by the recent passing of Professor Emeritus James van Horn Melton (Emory) Prof. Melton served on the advisory board of 'German History' and was an eminent scholar of early modern German and Habsburg Europe, the Enlightenment, and the Atlantic World. scholarblogs.emory.e...