Historical Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Historical Research 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.)
ArticleCitations
Production of parchment legal deeds in England, 1690–18303
Social security in late medieval England: corrodies in the hospitals and almshouses of Durham Priory2
Genoese Rome and Genoa–Rome relations in the late seventeenth century (1644–1700)2
Lord Bergavenny’s illegal retaining revisited, 1501–222
The heart of the maritime world: London’s ‘mercantile’ coffee houses in the Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence, 1756–832
Henry VII and the Tower of London: the context of the ‘confession’ of Sir James Tyrell in 15022
Religious masculinities in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum2
The official career of Sir Christopher Hales, attorney general and master of the rolls under Henry VIII1
Documents hidden behind a wall: an episode in the long-term archival conflict between the Este and the Roman Apostolic Chamber, 16331
China in African American cosmopolitanism, 1919–291
Irreducible ambiguity? The line between custom and statute in the law-making of thirteenth-century Poland1
Putting the Catholics back in: the ‘rise of Arminianism’ reconsidered1
‘Reform or revolution’, redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918–19 German Revolution1
Response to ‘Training in Historical Research: An Introduction’1
Captain Pennington’s perplexity: the loan of English ships to France, 16251
Town Talk: enhancing the ‘eyes and ears’ of the colonial state in British Hong Kong, 1950s–19751
‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War1
The ‘proclamation’ statute of 1454 and its implementation to 1460: an insight into the effectiveness of late Lancastrian government1
Changing interpretations of Ian Smith in the British press, 1980–20071
The diplomatic authority of William Davison1
Whiteness is not enough: South Africa and the 1922 responsible government referendum in Southern Rhodesia1
Malignant passions and carnal desires: rape in long eighteenth-century Scotland1
Overlapping authorities, vikings in Frisia and the church of Utrecht1
Memorandum concerning Joseph Priestley1
Bestselling ballads and the Bible in England, c.1560–17001
Bodies in the belfry: gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London1
A decade of controversy: sources on the demarcation of Calcutta, 1784–940
Translating between the lines: the rape of Constance Mauduit and histories of violation0
‘The Hideous Old Lady of Fashion’: dressing the ageing body in Victorian Britain0
Civic factions, denied conversions and the first European narrative of Jewish infanticide: Praejectus of Clermont’s Deeds of Austremonius (c.650/75)0
Vel maiorum relatio uel librorum reuolutio: oral informants and information in the works of William of Malmesbury0
William the Conqueror’s writ for the City of London0
Conservative politics and Whig colonial government, 1830–410
No more parades? Navy Weeks, naval theatre and navalism, 1927–380
War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604)0
The High Priest of Blind Zeal: Milton, Montelion and mockery0
‘A cloister of curious workmanship’: the patronage of St. Stephen’s cloisters within the Palace of Westminster in the early sixteenth century0
A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I0
Correction to: The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community0
A climate of fear? The Scottish universities and the question of devolution, 1974–90
Freedom of speech, news and the classical republican tradition in seventeenth-century England0
Editorial0
‘It bringeth them into dangerous perill’: management of and recovery after miscarriage in early modern England, c.1600–17500
The monks of Rochester and the hospital of St. Mary of Strood: a twelfth-century dispute reassessed0
Profitable settlements: the earl of Warwick and toleration in the English Atlantic, 1643–80
Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain0
Multilingualism and crusade preaching: the narrative on Bernard of Clairvaux’s preaching in Germany0
The Donation of Constantine in John Whethamstede’s Granarium0
The cop and the mob: Joe Petrosino against the Mafia in the United States and Italy during the Progressive Era0
A secularizing society? Case studies of English northern industrial towns in the 1950s0
‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship0
The Imperial Maritime Customs and Sino-British exchange of materia medica, 1850s–1900s0
Mercenary gentlemen? The transnational service of foreign quarterdeck officers in the Royal Navy of the American and French wars, 1775–18150
Gendered labour, negritude and the Black public sphere0
The emergence of Leveller polemic: William Walwyn, collaborative authorship and radical identity, 1645–70
Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–11030
Rumour, slander and propaganda in fifteenth-century Scottish politics0
Gladstone and Ireland: a financial approach0
Making peace in the English civil wars0
Ulster’s allies across the Atlantic: the American anti-Irish Home Rule movement, 1911–140
Recording a revolution: the clerk of the parliaments and the journals of the house of lords, 1640–90
A taste of America: the arrival of the burger in Britain, 1954–940
The ‘consequence of an advertisement’: intermediation in the eighteenth-century credit market0
‘Too long mere food for powder’: the British army in Punch, 1841–610
Resituating Henrician Ireland: imperium, prophecy and Reformation between the Atlantic and Eurasian worlds, 1514–470
‘Peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world’: British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892–19190
A newly discovered Anglo-Lusignan truce (8 January 1222)0
Speaking to or for the world? Britain, presumed authority and world opinion at the start of the First World War0
Ghosts of war: China’s relations with Portugal in the post-war period, 1945–90
The Zaran company in the Holy Land: an unknown fourth crusade charter from Acre0
Mapping and ‘stage-managing’ elections in the long eighteenth century: electoral culture, popular politics and the rhetoric of political space0
‘A legend somewhat larger than life’: Karl H. von Wiegand and the trajectory of Hearstian sensationalist journalism0
Lustrous silk and dark wool: materiality, colour and the refashioning of St. Augustine in the medieval imagination0
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees, 1724–18000
Intellectual community in Saint Victor: 1108–c.12000
‘Likely to make good soldiers’: mobilizing Britain’s criminal population during the First World War0
‘One morning you would open the paper … and read, Return of Parnell’: rumours, legends and conspiracy narratives about Charles Stewart Parnell’s staged death0
The emotional evidence of early modern English plague wills0
The Marshal partition of 1247: a medieval text’s journey through early modern Ireland0
The aftermath and afterlives of the Napier Fizzle across the British empire, 1834–42; or, how did Lord Napier die?0
Investigating the position of the Ra’īs in Aleppo in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D./fifth and sixth centuries A.H.0
Historic doubts about the survival of the Princes in the Tower after 14850
‘The sanctuary of them all’: the politics of manpower and nationality in the armies in exile in the United Kingdom, 1940–40
‘Better off with Labour’? Fiscal policy, electoral strategy and the road to John Smith’s shadow budget, 1979–920
The 2021 Historical Research lecture: Historians, accountabilities and judgement0
The organization and output of the ‘controlled English leather economy’, 1711–18300
Slavery and charity: Tobias Rustat and the African companies, 1662–940
Professionalism, perfidy and personal circumstance in the life of Marchamont Nedham0
Jan Huygen van Linschoten and the Reys-gheschrift: updating Iberian Science for the Dutch expansion0
War and peace: hired troops and military aid in Byzantine and English treaties, c.900–12000
The socio-environmental impact of mining in a peripheral Andean region, 1776–18310
The nineties in 1990s Britain: long-sighted temporalities at the turn of the millennium0
Radical and/or respectable: coverage of radical politics in The Times and the Manchester Guardian in interwar Britain0
The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London0
Intruders in the Scottish church: clerical allegiance and English clergymen in Scotland during the Second War of Independence, 1332–570
Historical Research celebrates its centenary0
Trade and traders in Plantation Ulster, c.1600–c.16500
The role of news and rumour during the Peasants’ Revolt, 13810
‘How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust’: recipes to animate small objects in late medieval European manuscripts0
Jesting culture and religious politics in seventeenth-century England0
Ralph of Diss, the coronation of Philip Augustus (1179) and the English claim to the French throne0
Forging liberal states: Palmerston’s foreign policy and the rise of a constitutional monarchy in Spain, 1833–70
Signs of economic development in the Kingdom of Naples under the Aragonese Crown: the Coppola Company0
King Henry VII and the case of the missing treaty: Anglo-Hungarian crusading diplomacy reconsidered0
Licensing libel in seventeenth-century England: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in context/s0
Correction to: Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–11030
King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy0
The contribution of the parliamentary press to Oliver Cromwell’s image as a military hero of the first English Civil War0
Parish councils, political inclusion, Liberal politics and the question of class: the 1894 elections as a forgotten phase in British democratization0
Language, historical culture and the gentry of later Stuart Cornwall and south-west Wales0
Anti-Bolshevism and the periodical press in interwar Britain: the case of the Saturday Review, 1933–60
Popular politics, heritage and memories of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918–20200
Edward Long’s observations on Jamaican slavery and British slave trade abolition0
Foreign policy thought in Weimar’s ‘conservative revolution’: realpolitik or a question of being?0
The trade fair network in Apulia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries0
The politics of press astrology in wartime Britain, 1939–420
The bewildered peasant: family, migration and murder in the Greek Cypriot community in London0
Making beds in early modern England: sleep, matter and environmental change0
Artistic households: the economics of creative work in seventeenth-century London0
Christian feminism? Women Against the Ordination of Women and the St. Hilda Community, 1986–920
Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–19000
Navigating the Reformation in Suffolk: the painters’ perspectives0
Memory, community and the end of empire on the Isle of Dogs, 1980–20040
The 1444 Sunday law of London0
Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–900
‘I say I must for I am the kings Shrieve’: magistrates invoking the monarch’s name in 1 Henry VI (1592) and The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon (1598)0
‘Largely a matter of sentiment’? The demise of the battleship in the post-1945 Royal Navy0
Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–410
Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility0
Progress across empire: entanglements between Indian and European reformers before the First World War0
News, diplomacy and the 1655 Piedmont massacre in Cromwellian England0
‘Avoid it without the appearance of running away’: Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine and the use of other conflicts, 1970–860
Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–18150
The long history of child sponsorship, c.1700–19500
The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community0
Connected historiographies: cross-border exchanges on the French Revolution (U.S.S.R.–France, 1917–41)0
Schools of clerks, schools of knights: John Grandisson and Hugh de Courtenay’s French correspondence, 1329–400
Life after death: uses in practice in the fifteenth century0
Reformed but not converted: Paolo Sarpi, the English mission in Venice and conceptions of religious change0
Editorial: An archival view of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research0
Reassessing the productivity of enslavement on large-scale plantations and small farms in Brazilian cotton production (c.1750–c.1810)0
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