Benjamin Bühring

Academic Curriculum Vitae

• 2004 – 2009 Studies of English, History and Pedagogy at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
• 2006 ERASMUS student at National University of Ireland in Galway
• 2005 – 2009 Student assistant at the Chair of Early Modern History (Professor Olaf Mörke) of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
• 2009 Postgraduate student assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies (Professor Arnd Reitemeier) of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2010 Fellowship holder at the German Historical Institute London
• 2010 – 2011 Research assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies (Professor Arnd Reitemeier) of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Since 03/2011 PhD scholar in Postgraduate Research Group “The Personal Union of Great Britain and Hanover, 1714–1837: An International Space of Communication and Interaction”
• Beginning of 2013 Completion of a doctoral degree

Focus and interests of research
German-British history in the 18th century, administration and political history of the Early Modern Age, transnational historiography, regional history of Lower Saxony (especially the Electorate of Hanover), history of universities, diplomatic history, global history

Doctoral dissertation project
The Hanoverian German Chancery in London as mediator of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover 1714–1770.
I am interested in the practical functioning of a personal union in the 18th century and the administrative and communicative structures it was based on. The main focus will be on the German Chancery in London as its main institution and channel of communication. Next to the material as well as social conditions, the project centres on certain key aspects in order to analyse the communicative actions within the framework of a composite monarchy.