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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Last Witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition	5
Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice	4
Apprentice migration to London from Wales, 1600–1800	4
A double-edged sword: the impact of military service on ‘zigenare’ and ‘tattare’ in Finland, c.1743–1809	4
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939	3
New Reviews Editor	2
How to quantify the poor, and why? Transnational movements and the creation of a poverty line in France and Europe (1960s–1970s)	2
Social History Book Club: The Others by Sheena Kalayil (New Mills: Fly on the W	2
Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire	2
The Newsmongers: a history of tabloid journalism	1
Trusting the postman: prosecuting theft and managing sickness in the British Post Office, c.1860–1910	1
The social origins of democracy in Sweden: the role of agrarian politics	1
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: a history for the present	1
Sacred space and disruptive bodies in the high and late Middle Ages	1
Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean	1
Solving placement problems: local decision-making and the Finnish correctional labour facility system c.1920–1980	1
Arbeit, Dienst und Führung. Der Nationalsozialismus und sein Erbe [Labour, Service and Leadership: National socialism and its legacy]	1
Intimate Subjects: touch and tangibility in Britain’s cerebral age	1
Empire of Poverty: the moral-political economy of the Spanish empire	1
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers	1
Strangers Within: the rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite	1
The Quislings: the trials of Norwegian wartime collaborators, 1941–1964	1
Correction	1
How the Country House Became English	1
A woman with a pillow on her belly: semi-legal adoption practices in Soviet Lithuania	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
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city	1
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s	1
Getting by or getting on: gender, intergenerational earning and caring in deindustrialising localities in Lanarkshire, Scotland	1
Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s	0
Care for children with intellectual disability and the persistence of eugenic ideas in Poland in the late 1950s	0
Emotional baggage: how objects created family across the nineteenth-century British empire	0
Social History Book Club: White Houses	0
The Capitalist Self: the social origins of financial capitalism in early modern England	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
The development and social impact of the Sudan Interior Mission’s leprosy work in Bauchi Province, northern Nigeria, 1937–1978	0
Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age	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
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
The material culture of rebellion in Kent, 1450–1451	0
How the old workhouse system became the new workhouse system: a case study of Hampshire in the 1830s	0
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: an introduction	0
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s twentieth century	0
Scholars and Their Kin: historical explorations, literary experiments	0
Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia	0
Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–2020	0
New Review Editor	0
‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war	0
Injustice, deindustrialisation and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland	0
Our lodging house in the middle of the street: a socio-spatial analysis of three cohorts of lodging housekeepers, Antwerp 1850–1880	0
Social History Book Club: Casualties of Truth , by Lauren Francis-Sharma (New York, Grove Atlantic, 2025)	0
The Modern British City, 1945–2000	0
The Modern British Data State, 1945–2000	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
The farce of the commons? Corporate rights, political wrongs and common-pool resources in English towns, 1835–1870	0
Peasant proprietors, social mobility and risk aversion in the early Middle Ages: an Iberian case study	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
Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France	0
The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century	0
Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland: incest, rape, lewd and libidinous practices , 1918–1930	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
Fostering loyalty to the Habsburg cause: Muslim students from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the University of Vienna 1899–1911	0
Port communities on both sides of the Atlantic: neighbourhood life and public festivities in the sailortowns of Antwerp and Buenos Aires, c.1880–1930	0
Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria	0
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution	0
‘Hairy honours of their chins’: whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-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
An Unformed Map: geographies of belonging between Africa and the Caribbean	0
Announcement: John Seed	0
Danish peasants destroying paperwork, 1438–1441	0
German Angst: fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany	0
Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of so	0
Patricians, plebeians and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea	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
Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia	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
Migrant Citizenship: race, rights, and reform in the US farm labor camp program	0
All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war	0
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England	0
Liquid Empire: water and power in the colonial world	0
The Price of Misfortune: rights and wrongs in indebted America	0
Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce , by	0
Embodied Histories: new womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934	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
Social History Book Club: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (London: Spectre, 2024)	0
Talking History: seminar culture at the Institute of Historical Research, 1921–2021	0
A broad battle: public opinion and the 1945–1946 General Motors strike	0
Smart money and permanent injury: occupational health in early modern English capitalism, 1590–1803	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
European Modernity and the Passionate South: gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century	0
Police in the dock: police sexual violence, culture and collusion during the Leith dock strike, 1913	0
Trials of Sovereignty: mercy, violence, and the making of criminal law in British India, 1857–1922	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
Reimagining Illness: Women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain	0
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971	0
Making us whole again: history and the United Auto Workers (UAW) ‘Big Three’ strike of 2023	0
Emotional economies of pleasure among the gentry of eighteenth-century England	0
Asylum between Nations: refugees in a revolutionary era	0
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’	0
Tributes to John Seed, historian and poet	0
British Pop Archive, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester	0
An uneven internationalism? West German youth and organised travel to Israel, c.1958–c.1967	0
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud	0
A world of goods? Europe, empire and consumer goods in England, c. 1670–1820	0
The formation of professional identity: Italian Fascism and agricultural technicians	0
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–64	0
Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity , by Joseph Gamble, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvani	0
The War People: a social history of common soldiers during the era of the Thirty Years’ War	0
Across the Southern Soviet border: international encounters in the Armenian, Kazakh, Uzbek and Ukrainian SSRs, 1960–1985	0
The politics of transnational student mobility: youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–1966	0
‘O! awa wi sic sangs as aft hae been sung’: radical songwriting and the rethinking of Chartism	0
The introduction and spread of plague in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, c.1700–1900: a palaeogenetic and social history	0
Afterlives of War: a descendants’ history	0
‘Spending my youth between four walls’: experiences of time in Belgian reform schools, 1900–1960	0
Between unemployment and migration: institutionalised female labour migration from socialist Yugoslavia, 1963–1973	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
How did the belief in meritocracy spread? Working-class and lower middle-class attitudes towards education in German-speaking Central Europe, c.1850–1960	0
Making Men in the Age of Sail: masculinity, memoir, and the British merchant seafarer, 1860–1914	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
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
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism	0
Urban governance, public health and the impact of plague on everyday life in Cambridge, 1625–1630	0
The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: tanning culture from fad to fear	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
Mixed Marriage: class, religion, race, and nation in England, 1837–1939	0
Vigilance and tax fraud in early modern Catalonia	0
Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s	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
Paternalism and the politics of ‘toll corn’ in early modern England	0
Pawning for the poor and the consumer revolution: Venice in the eighteenth century	0
From plague to cholera: public health and the urban poor in nineteenth-century Italy	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
‘[O]ne of the year’s difficult problems’: the UK cinema industry and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919	0
Making Pagans: theatrical practice and comparative religion in early modern England	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
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
Poverty, old age and outdoor relief in late-Victorian England	0
Personal Politics in the Postwar World: Western diplomacy behind the scenes	0
The household, the citizen and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages	0
Relics of the past and symbols of modernity: the cultural practices of coal mining communities in post-war Britain	0
Selling Ancestry: family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth century Britain	0
Social History Book Club: Jo Baker, Longbourn	0
‘Unity in struggle is our strength’: Sheffield University’s Overseas Students’ Bureau and international activism at a local level	0
Insatiable City: food and race in New Orleans	0
Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India , by Nandini Bhattacharya, Montreal and Kingston, McGill Queen’	0
Interpreting status, hierarchy and oligarchy in London’s livery companies in the earlier sixteenth century	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
Skills of the unskilled: working with livestock in medieval Northern Europe	0
Marx and the many lives of Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	0
Becoming Lesbian: a queer history of modern France	0
The geography of Old Bailey crime prosecutions, 1720–1820: the impact of institutional change and proactive policing	0