German Historical Institute London Podcast

About German Historical Institute London Podcast

Welcome to the podcast of the German Historical Institute London, a research centre for German and British academics and students in the heart of Bloomsbury. The GHIL is a research base for historians of all eras working on colonial history and global relations or the history of Great Britain and Ireland, and also provides a meeting point for UK historians whose research concerns the history of the German-speaking lands. In each podcast episode, ranging from interviews to lecture recordings, we take a look at historical research from different periods and areas. Subscribe to our podcast and visit our website at www.ghil.ac.uk to learn more about our research and work at the GHIL.

Publisher

public_relations@ghil.ac.uk

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2009

Latest episode

14 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

134 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Aug 2026

   Autosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology

   In 1900, psychologist Harlow Stearns Gale published what is probably the earliest psychological study of advertising. His main interest was the process of convincing potential buyers by attracting their attention, suggesting a need and a product to satisfy it, and making its brand memorable. In this lecture, I will trace the historical background that made it seem necessary to stimulate consumption through new forms of advertising and thus motivated the psychotechnical modelling of consumer behaviour. I argue that to awaken and stabilize needs against the background of mass production and distance media, a new type of psychotechnology was required: autosuggestion.

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   14 Aug 2026

   Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich

   For journalist William Shirer, ‘no other correspondent in Germany knew so much of what was going on behind the scenes as did Sigrid Schultz.’ Hermann Göring denounced Schultz as ‘that dragon lady from Chicago.’ Sigrid Schultz lived in Berlin from 1914 to 1941, was bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune from 1925, and had a formidable record of journalistic accomplishment. Yet Schultz has left only a faint historical trace. Schultz overcame significant obstacles—as a woman in a male dominated milieu, as a foreign journalist working in a totalitarian state, and as an interventionist at an isolationist newspaper—throughout her career. This talk will explore Schultz’s work and her significance.

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   14 Aug 2026

   The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s

   The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First World War, and reaching its sad climax with millions of displaced people in the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. In the German discourse, however, the refugee appears as a socially relevant figure only from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, when an increasing number of refugees from non-European territories came to Europe. The lecture will explore this phenomenon by looking at how decolonization and the transformation of human rights policies and international migration regimes from the 1950s contributed to new perceptions of forced migration in European societies.

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• Janina Struk
• Paul Betts
• James Bulgin
• Thiago Barbosa
• Indra Sengupta

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