Social History

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Their proper place’: women, work and the marriage bar in independent Ireland, c. 1924–197311
Reckoning with refugeedom: refugee voices in modern history8
The social origins of democracy in Sweden: the role of agrarian politics3
The problem of billeting distribution in Renaissance Spain: absolutism, privilege and local oligarchies3
Making space: towards a spatial history of modernity in caste-societies3
Silence, distance and neutrality: the politics of emotional distress during the Northern Irish troubles2
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility: emotions and experiences of the deportable in Mandate Palestine2
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons2
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–18502
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–19391
Under the landlord’s thumb: municipalities and local elites in Sweden 1862–19001
Kinship, conflict and transnational coordination: the Siemens family’s globalisation strategies in the nineteenth century1
Shame and silences: children’s emotional experiences of insecurity and violence in postwar Finnish families1
A world of goods? Europe, empire and consumer goods in England, c. 1670–18201
Deviance, marginality and the Highland bandit in seventeenth-century Scotland1
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: an introduction1
The social history of a medieval fish weir, c. 600–20201
Paternalism and the politics of ‘toll corn’ in early modern England1
The commercialisation of Bengali food: insights into caste, class and commensality in colonial Bengal1
Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia1
The historical fate of the rural settlement network in Russia: the case of Tomsk Oblast, 1940s–1980s1
Injustice, deindustrialisation and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland1
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–19451
Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France1
The politics of transnational student mobility: youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–19661
‘One of the toughest streets in the world’: exploring male violence, class and ethnicity in London’s Sailortown, c. 1850–18801
‘I think we ought not to acknowledge them [paupers] as that encourages them to write’: the administrative state, power and the Victorian pauper1
Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages1
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s0
Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–20200
Negotiating exclusion in early modern England, 1550–18000
White-collar workers in Milan: c. 1880–19150
A double-edged sword: the impact of military service on ‘zigenare’ and ‘tattare’ in Finland, c.1743–18090
Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean0
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
Patricians, plebeians and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea0
Race and Riots in Thatcher’s Britain0
Apprentice migration to London from Wales, 1600–18000
The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 , by Misha Ewen, Ph0
Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire0
Migrant Citizenship: race, rights, and reform in the US farm labor camp program0
Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity , by Joseph Gamble, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvani0
Dogopolis: How dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris0
Smart money and permanent injury: occupational health in early modern English capitalism, 1590–18030
‘Hairy honours of their chins’: whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain0
Making ends meet: clerical workers, consumption, and the collar line in the USA in the 1920s0
The Modern British Data State, 1945–20000
The Shadow of the Mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain0
Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India , by Nandini Bhattacharya, Montreal and Kingston, McGill Queen’0
Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919–20190
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 P0
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
New Review Editor0
Selling Ancestry: family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth century Britain0
‘O! awa wi sic sangs as aft hae been sung’: radical songwriting and the rethinking of Chartism0
The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century0
State socialist women’s organizations within Yugoslav factories: a case study of local activism in the Duga Resa cotton mill0
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
Emotional baggage: how objects created family across the nineteenth-century British empire0
Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce , by 0
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–19710
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire0
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–13850
Collective Action and Political Transformation: the entangled experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe0
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
Communities of Resistance: conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War0
‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war0
Histories of the Self: personal narratives and historical practice0
Faith, Hope and Charity: English neighbourhoods, 1500–16400
Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia0
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: long-distance pilgrimage in Northwest Europe0
Many Mouths: the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state0
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud0
British Pop Archive, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester0
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–1991: a different history0
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–19000
Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c. 1760–18300
Arbeit, Dienst und Führung. Der Nationalsozialismus und sein Erbe [Labour, Service and Leadership: National socialism and its legacy]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 Robi0
German Angst: fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany0
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 Antille0
Manliness in Britain 1760–1900: bodies, emotion and material culture0
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 Wi0
Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria0
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and eighteenth-century England0
The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain0
‘[O]ne of the year’s difficult problems’: the UK cinema industry and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19190
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city0
Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century0
A History of Fascism in France: from the First World War to the National Front0
Marx and the many lives of Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries0
Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the fate of revolutionary Russia0
Solving placement problems: local decision-making and the Finnish correctional labour facility system c.1920–19800
Literacy and healers’ tactics in Finnish folk medicine, 1850–19500
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: residential childcare, 1958–910
Emotional economies of pleasure among the gentry of eighteenth-century England0
Forging Germans: youth, nation, and the National Socialist mobilization of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918–19440
The farce of the commons? Corporate rights, political wrongs and common-pool resources in English towns, 1835–18700
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism0
European Modernity and the Passionate South: gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century0
Maladies of Empire: How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine0
An uneven internationalism? West German youth and organised travel to Israel, c.1958–c.19670
Asylum between Nations: refugees in a revolutionary era0
Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters , by Emily Cockayne, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 299 pp., £20.000
Poverty, old age and outdoor relief in late-Victorian England0
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria0
An Infinite History: the story of a family in France over three centuries0
‘Unity in struggle is our strength’: Sheffield University’s Overseas Students’ Bureau and international activism at a local level0
Vigilance and tax fraud in early modern Catalonia0
Sunnyside: a sociolinguistic history of British house names0
Bread Winner: an intimate history of the Victorian economy0
People of the River: lost worlds of early Australia0
Caritas: neighbourly love and the early modern self0
LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives , by Simon Joyce, Oxfor0
We Are the Land: a history of Native California0
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England0
Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of so0
Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age0
Working in Greece and Turkey: a comparative labour history from empires to nation-states, 1840–19400
History and the Law: a love story0
‘Die Mauer war doch richtig!’ Warum so viele DDR-Bürger den Mauerbau widerstandslos hinnahmen0
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900–13000
Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion: Cheshire on the eve of civil war0
Power and Pleasure: court life under King John, 1199–12160
The Story of Work: A new history of humankind0
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression0
Peasant proprietors, social mobility and risk aversion in the early Middle Ages: an Iberian case study0
‘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 (ha0
Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe0
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–640
‘Profane language, horrid oaths and imprecations’: order and the colonial soundscape in the American mid-Atlantic, 1650–17500
Social History Book Club: White Houses0
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, L0
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
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 University0
Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810–670
Reimagining Illness: Women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain0
Combating London’s Criminal Class: a state divided, 1869–950
America Classifies the Immigrants: from Ellis Island to the 2020 census0
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: 90
The Many Faces of Slavery: new perspectives on slave ownership and experiences in the Americas0
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 Un0
Working in Cork: everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina plant, 1917–20010
Victims and Criminal Justice: a history Victims and Criminal Justice: a history , by Pam Cox, Robert Shoemaker and Heather Shore, Oxford, Clarendon Studies in Criminolog0
Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice 0
Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s0
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution0
Invisible workers: 9/11 and American labour0
The household, the citizen and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages0
Graphic News: How sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism0
A broad battle: public opinion and the 1945–1946 General Motors strike0
Afterlives of War: a descendants’ history0
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers0
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: a tribute to Bárbara Mujica0
The public health question and mortuary politics in colonial Ghana0
Frontiers of Feminism: Movements and influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–800
All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war0
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, 0
Narrative Pasts: the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400–16500
Histories of People and Landscape: essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey0
Life in Revolutionary France0
Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy: the material culture of the middling class0
Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s0
They Were Her Property: white women as slave owners in the American South0
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career , by Annemarie McAl0
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World , edited by Stephen H. Whiteman, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylv0
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
Moscow Monumental: Soviet skyscrapers and urban life in Stalin’s capital0
Captives of Liberty: prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution0
Houses and Society in Norwich 1350–1660: urban buildings in an age of transition0
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