Annual Lecture
Since 2020, the AGF organises a virtual Annual Lecture once a year with a guest from the UK. The following Annual Lectures have taken place so far:
2022: “Insights into UK Politics: Accountability in Public Life” (Simon McDonald; former British diplomat)
2021: “The History Wars: The role of the past in British politics today” (Sir Richard J Evans; Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge)
2020: “After Brexit. Where next for the United Kingdom?” (Philip Rycroft; former UK Permanent Secretary and Associate Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change/University of Edinburgh) (full text)
Conference and Workshop
During the two-day annual meetings, historical, political and cultural topics from the area of German-British relations are discussed. To this end, British and German experts are invited as speakers.
The annual meeting aims to be a forum for scientific exchange and personal learning. It usually takes place on the weekend after Ascension. For many years, our conferences were held in the Catholic Academy “Die Wolfsburg” in Mülheim / Ruhr in May. Since 2015, they partly take place in the Centre for British Studies (Humboldt University, Berlin). Usually, conference reports are published on H-Soz-u-Kult.
Workshops, in which members and guests – and preferably young academics – discuss topics and present results from their work, form an integral part of the conference. The workshops can be divided into areas such as history, comparative politics and foreign policy.
The programmes of the conferences can be found on the The Stacks, the repository of the Library of Anglo-American Culture & History.
Annual Conference 2016 – The End of Duopoly? The British Party System in Transformation
Annual Conference 2015 – From Middle Class Society to an Age of Inequality? Social Change and Changing Concepts of Inequality in Germany and Great Britain after 1945
Annual Conference 2014 – Drifting towards the exit? Taking stock of Britain’s EU membership after 40 years
Annual Conference 2013 – The ‘Westminster System’ Transformed Continuity and Change of a Paradigm
Annual Conference 2012 – Marketisation continued? Views on Britain from History, Political Science and Economics
Annual Conference 2010 – Industry and Industrial Heritage in Britain and Germany in the 20th Century?
Annual Conference 2009 – 10 Years of Devolution: The New Territorial Politics in the United Kingdom
Annual Conference 2008 – Cultural Industries and Cultural Politics: Britain 1750-2000
Annual Conference 2007 – Journalists as transnational political actors in Britain and Germany
Annual Conference 2006 – Britain – A Global Player
Annual Conference 2005 – Modernizing Britain: The Impact of New Labour
Annual Conference 2004 – From Enmity to Friendship: Anglo-American Relations in the 19th and 20th Century
Annual Conference 2003 – Political Ritual in the United Kingdom, 1700-2000
Annual Conference 2002 – The Representation of British Cities Transformations of Urban Space, 1700-1900
Annual Conference 2001 – Debating Foreign Affairs: Elites and Public Opinion in British History, c. 1870-2000
Annual Conference 2000 – British Society between Openness and Isolation: Immigration and Integration, 18th- 20th Century
