History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

Hiking in Germany was the title of a propaganda brochure published in 1934 by the Reichsbahnzentrale, an agency established by the German State Railway to advertise rail tourism. The pamphlet was written in English and specifically intended to encourage international tourists to visit youth hostels in the German Reich. The Nazis advertised the roughly 2,000…

We would like to highlight our current GG issue "Gender Regimes in History" and thank you for this successful collaboration! #gg #geschichteundgesellschaft #genderregimes

To mark the launch of her new book Geprägte Freiheit: Großbritannien und das Europäische Währungssystem 1979–1992, now available from De Gruyter Brill in the series 'Publications of the German Historical Institute London', Juliane Clegg shares an insight into her research with the GHIL Blog. ‘Now we’ve all been screwed by the Cabinet’. This was the…

How can the study of translations help us to understand the movement of political ideas across Europe? What constitutes a faithful translation? And why should we care?

Alte Frauen: als politischer Akteur tritt diese soziale Gruppe scheinbar selten in das historische Rampenlicht. In diesem Vortrag geht Prof. Dr. Christina von Hodenberg (DHI London) den alten Frauen i...

In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.

Wie aktuell sind die Ideale der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitserklärung 250 Jahre nach ihrer Verabschiedung? Welche Widersprüche prägten die Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten – und wie wirken sie bis heute nach? Diese und weitere Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung „1776 – 2026: Ursprung, Anspruch und Wirklichkeit in den USA”.