OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Narrative Pasts: the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400–1650	14
Negotiating exclusion in early modern England, 1550–1800	3
A double-edged sword: the impact of military service on ‘zigenare’ and ‘tattare’ in Finland, c.1743–1809	3
Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice	3
Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy: the material culture of the middling class	3
Apprentice migration to London from Wales, 1600–1800	3
Faith, Hope and Charity: English neighbourhoods, 1500–1640	2
Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire	2
Working in Cork: everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina plant, 1917–2001	2
The Shadow of the Mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain	1
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria	1
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: a history for the present	1
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: residential childcare, 1958–91	1
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers	1
The public health question and mortuary politics in colonial Ghana	1
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression	1
A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and church–state power in Ireland A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and church–state power in Ireland , edited by Mark Coen,	1
Trusting the postman: prosecuting theft and managing sickness in the British Post Office, c.1860–1910	1
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–1945	1
The social origins of democracy in Sweden: the role of agrarian politics	1
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city	1
Silence, distance and neutrality: the politics of emotional distress during the Northern Irish troubles	1
Making space: towards a spatial history of modernity in caste-societies	1
Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean	1
European Modernity and the Passionate South: gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century	0

‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war	0
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971	0
Asylum between Nations: refugees in a revolutionary era	0
The farce of the commons? Corporate rights, political wrongs and common-pool resources in English towns, 1835–1870	0
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud	0
Emotional economies of pleasure among the gentry of eighteenth-century England	0
The household, the citizen and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages	0
People of the River: lost worlds of early Australia	0
Selling Ancestry: family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth century Britain	0
The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War	0
An Infinite History: the story of a family in France over three centuries	0
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 , by Simon Devereaux, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023,	0
Sunnyside: a sociolinguistic history of British house names	0
Poverty, old age and outdoor relief in late-Victorian England	0
An uneven internationalism? West German youth and organised travel to Israel, c.1958–c.1967	0
‘Hairy honours of their chins’: whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain	0
Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria	0
Marx and the many lives of Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	0
Histories of the Self: personal narratives and historical practice	0
Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of so	0
Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810–67	0
Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy , by James E. Moran,	0
Solving placement problems: local decision-making and the Finnish correctional labour facility system c.1920–1980	0
How the old workhouse system became the new workhouse system: a case study of Hampshire in the 1830s	0
‘O! awa wi sic sangs as aft hae been sung’: radical songwriting and the rethinking of Chartism	0
Histories of People and Landscape: essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey	0
Arbeit, Dienst und Führung. Der Nationalsozialismus und sein Erbe [Labour, Service and Leadership: National socialism and its legacy]	0
Kinship, conflict and transnational coordination: the Siemens family’s globalisation strategies in the nineteenth century	0
The social history of a medieval fish weir, c. 600–2020	0
State socialist women’s organizations within Yugoslav factories: a case study of local activism in the Duga Resa cotton mill	0
Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia	0
A broad battle: public opinion and the 1945–1946 General Motors strike	0
Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s	0
Invisible workers: 9/11 and American labour	0
Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century and Rethinking Atlantic Empire: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s histories of nineteenth-century Spain and the Antille	0
Victims and Criminal Justice: a history Victims and Criminal Justice: a history , by Pam Cox, Robert Shoemaker and Heather Shore, Oxford, Clarendon Studies in Criminolog	0
Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce , by	0
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England	0
Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia	0
Injustice, deindustrialisation and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland	0
From plague to cholera: public health and the urban poor in nineteenth-century Italy	0
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–64	0
Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age	0
The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century	0
Under the landlord’s thumb: municipalities and local elites in Sweden 1862–1900	0
The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 , by Misha Ewen, Ph	0
Knots: or the violence of desire in Renaissance Florence Knots: or the violence of desire in Renaissance Florence , by Emanuele Lugli, Chicago and London, The University	0
Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 320	0
Houses and Society in Norwich 1350–1660: urban buildings in an age of transition	0
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World , edited by Stephen H. Whiteman, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylv	0

The Story of Work: A new history of humankind	0
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire	0
The problem of billeting distribution in Renaissance Spain: absolutism, privilege and local oligarchies	0
The Price of Misfortune: rights and wrongs in indebted America	0
Urban governance, public health and the impact of plague on everyday life in Cambridge, 1625–1630	0
Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain , by Arunima Datta, Oxford, Oxford	0
Deviance, marginality and the Highland bandit in seventeenth-century Scotland	0
Maladies of Empire: How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine	0
Reimagining Illness: Women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain	0
The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) , ed. by Madeleine Gray, Tony Hopkins and Alun Wi	0
We Are the Land: a history of Native California	0
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career , by Annemarie McAl	0
Collective Action and Political Transformation: the entangled experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe	0
Power and Pleasure: court life under King John, 1199–1216	0
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–1385	0
Patricians, plebeians and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea	0
Freeman’s Challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit Freeman’s Challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit , by Robi	0
Frontiers of Feminism: Movements and influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–80	0
Social History Book Club: White Houses	0
Migrant Citizenship: race, rights, and reform in the US farm labor camp program	0
Many Mouths: the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state	0
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s	0
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900	0
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: an introduction	0
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war , by Deborah Cohen, L	0
Emotional baggage: how objects created family across the nineteenth-century British empire	0
Vigilance and tax fraud in early modern Catalonia	0
LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives , by Simon Joyce, Oxfor	0
Communities of Resistance: conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War	0
Paternalism and the politics of ‘toll corn’ in early modern England	0
Life in Revolutionary France	0
Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–2020	0
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism	0
‘Die Mauer war doch richtig!’ Warum so viele DDR-Bürger den Mauerbau widerstandslos hinnahmen	0
Smart money and permanent injury: occupational health in early modern English capitalism, 1590–1803	0
Multicultural Britain: a people’s history	0
The collapse of a polity, the birth of states: municipal debt, local conflicts and state formation in the former Crown of Aragon (1740–1770)	0
Peasant proprietors, social mobility and risk aversion in the early Middle Ages: an Iberian case study	0
Our NHS: a history of Britain’s best-loved institution Our NHS: a history of Britain’s best-loved institution , by Andrew Seaton, New Haven and London, Yale University P	0
‘Their proper place’: women, work and the marriage bar in independent Ireland, c. 1924–1973	0
Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France	0
‘[O]ne of the year’s difficult problems’: the UK cinema industry and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919	0
Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity , by Joseph Gamble, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvani	0
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution	0
British Pop Archive, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester	0
The politics of transnational student mobility: youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–1966	0
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–1939	0
Radegund: the trials and triumphs of a Merovingian queen Radegund: the trials and triumphs of a Merovingian queen , by E.T. Dailey, Women in Antiquity, Oxford, Oxford Un	0
Insatiable City: food and race in New Orleans	0
A world of goods? Europe, empire and consumer goods in England, c. 1670–1820	0
Social History Book Club: Jo Baker, Longbourn	0
The commercialisation of Bengali food: insights into caste, class and commensality in colonial Bengal	0
‘Unity in struggle is our strength’: Sheffield University’s Overseas Students’ Bureau and international activism at a local level	0
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850	0
Correction	0
The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain	0
Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s	0
All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war	0
Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c. 1760–1830	0
Graphic News: How sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism	0
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–1991: a different history	0
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility: emotions and experiences of the deportable in Mandate Palestine	0
How the Country House Became English	0
Fur: a sensitive history Fur: a sensitive history , by Jonathan Faiers, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020, 240 pp., £40.00/$60.00 (hardcover), ISBN-13: 9	0
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 , by Ben Bethell, London, Routledge, 2022, 240 pp., £104.00/$136.00 (ha	0
Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century	0
German Angst: fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany	0
Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages	0
Dogopolis: How dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris	0
Afterlives of War: a descendants’ history	0
Moscow Monumental: Soviet skyscrapers and urban life in Stalin’s capital	0
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: long-distance pilgrimage in Northwest Europe	0
Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters , by Emily Cockayne, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 299 pp., £20.00	0
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons	0
Working in Greece and Turkey: a comparative labour history from empires to nation-states, 1840–1940	0
Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India , by Nandini Bhattacharya, Montreal and Kingston, McGill Queen’	0
‘Profane language, horrid oaths and imprecations’: order and the colonial soundscape in the American mid-Atlantic, 1650–1750	0
New Review Editor	0
Caritas: neighbourly love and the early modern self	0
The Modern British Data State, 1945–2000	0