OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Production of parchment legal deeds in England, 1690–1830	6
Henry VII and the Tower of London: the context of the ‘confession’ of Sir James Tyrell in 1502	3
Life’s better with Colman, Prentis and Varley: the Conservative party and political advertising, 1957–9	2
Overlapping authorities, vikings in Frisia and the church of Utrecht	2
Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe	2
Religious masculinities in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum	2
Social security in late medieval England: corrodies in the hospitals and almshouses of Durham Priory	2
Genoese Rome and Genoa–Rome relations in the late seventeenth century (1644–1700)	2
Response to ‘Training in Historical Research: An Introduction’	1
‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War	1
Documents hidden behind a wall: an episode in the long-term archival conflict between the Este and the Roman Apostolic Chamber, 1633	1
Captain Pennington’s perplexity: the loan of English ships to France, 1625	1
Bestselling ballads and the Bible in England, c.1560–1700	1
Changing interpretations of Ian Smith in the British press, 1980–2007	1
Reassessing the productivity of enslavement on large-scale plantations and small farms in Brazilian cotton production (c.1750–c.1810)	1
China in African American cosmopolitanism, 1919–29	1
Malignant passions and carnal desires: rape in long eighteenth-century Scotland	1
Whiteness is not enough: South Africa and the 1922 responsible government referendum in Southern Rhodesia	1
Stewart’s Boswellian memorandum of Burke’s politics: a note on Stewart’s ‘Memorandum of a Visit to Lord Lauderdale with Mr Burke and Adam Smith’	1
The ‘proclamation’ statute of 1454 and its implementation to 1460: an insight into the effectiveness of late Lancastrian government	1
Bodies in the belfry: gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London	1
Straying at the edges: Lollardy and iconoclasm on the Hampshire-Surrey border, 1433–40	1
The diplomatic authority of William Davison	1
The official career of Sir Christopher Hales, attorney general and master of the rolls under Henry VIII	1
Poverty in the southern province: a survey of parish clergy incomes in the dioceses of Winchester, Salisbury and Chichester, 1535–1705*	1

Catholic humanitarianism, the unity of Christians, and war criminals: Visarion Puiu and the Roman Catholic Church, 1945–50	1
Putting the Catholics back in: the ‘rise of Arminianism’ reconsidered	1
‘Power without responsibility’, or power without realizing? Reappraising the Empire Crusade	1
Irreducible ambiguity? The line between custom and statute in the law-making of thirteenth-century Poland	1
A newly discovered Anglo-Lusignan truce (8 January 1222)	0
‘One morning you would open the paper … and read, Return of Parnell’: rumours, legends and conspiracy narratives about Charles Stewart Parnell’s staged death	0
Civic factions, denied conversions and the first European narrative of Jewish infanticide: Praejectus of Clermont’s Deeds of Austremonius (c.650/75)	0
Prison reform from below: London, c .1780–1830	0
Translating between the lines: the rape of Constance Mauduit and histories of violation	0
Tall talks about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines	0
Guda, a sinful woman: a multi-scalar portrait of a medieval scribe and illuminator	0
‘The Burns connection’: the Scotland–U.S.S.R. Society and Cold War cultural diplomacy	0
Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–1900	0
‘Echoing Weber’: Richard Titmuss and Weberian social science	0
Women and the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century	0
Schools of clerks, schools of knights: John Grandisson and Hugh de Courtenay’s French correspondence, 1329–40	0
‘A cloister of curious workmanship’: the patronage of St. Stephen’s cloisters within the Palace of Westminster in the early sixteenth century	0
‘Avoid it without the appearance of running away’: Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine and the use of other conflicts, 1970–86	0
Rev. Earl M. Smith: the ‘grandfather’ of contemporary, organized Latin American nonviolence	0
‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship	0
‘It bringeth them into dangerous perill’: management of and recovery after miscarriage in early modern England, c.1600–1750	0
Unequal voices: emotions, agency and family hierarchies in the correspondence of the Hengrave siblings, 1567–71	0
Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland	0
The emergence of Leveller polemic: William Walwyn, collaborative authorship and radical identity, 1645–7	0
Archbishops at war: the archbishops of York and the Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1304–1405	0
Trade and traders in Plantation Ulster, c.1600–c.1650	0
Memory, community and the end of empire on the Isle of Dogs, 1980–2004	0
Making peace in the English civil wars	0
Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain	0
Culture and culture maintenance: the Welsh immigrant community in Osage County, Kansas, United States, 1870–1920	0
Multilingualism and crusade preaching: the narrative on Bernard of Clairvaux’s preaching in Germany	0
Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility	0
King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy	0
The nineties in 1990s Britain: long-sighted temporalities at the turn of the millennium	0
Editorial: An archival view of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research	0
Signs of economic development in the Kingdom of Naples under the Aragonese Crown: the Coppola Company	0
The date of the Battle of Myton	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
No more parades? Navy Weeks, naval theatre and navalism, 1927–38	0
Correction to: The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community	0
Lustrous silk and dark wool: materiality, colour and the refashioning of St. Augustine in the medieval imagination	0
Recording a revolution: the clerk of the parliaments and the journals of the house of lords, 1640–9	0
Medicine, marriage and masculinity in early modern England: John Robartes and the library at Lanhydrock House 1630–85	0
The politics of press astrology in wartime Britain, 1939–42	0
Popular politics, heritage and memories of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918–2020	0
Language, historical culture and the gentry of later Stuart Cornwall and south-west Wales	0
Slavery and charity: Tobias Rustat and the African companies, 1662–94	0
Writing the history of the Pequot War, 1636–7	0
Edward Long’s observations on Jamaican slavery and British slave trade abolition	0
Ralph of Diss, the coronation of Philip Augustus (1179) and the English claim to the French throne	0

Anti-Bolshevism and the periodical press in interwar Britain: the case of the Saturday Review, 1933–6	0
Life after death: uses in practice in the fifteenth century	0
Connected historiographies: cross-border exchanges on the French Revolution (U.S.S.R.–France, 1917–41)	0
Vel maiorum relatio uel librorum reuolutio: oral informants and information in the works of William of Malmesbury	0
The 1444 Sunday law of London	0
Historic doubts about the survival of the Princes in the Tower after 1485	0
Seeing women in the early English and Dutch East India Companies	0
The aftermath and afterlives of the Napier Fizzle across the British empire, 1834–42; or, how did Lord Napier die?	0
The socio-environmental impact of mining in a peripheral Andean region, 1776–1831	0
Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain	0
Rumour, slander and propaganda in fifteenth-century Scottish politics	0
Navigating the Reformation in Suffolk: the painters’ perspectives	0
A natural alliance? A reappraisal of the Macanese-Portuguese response to the Canton-Hong Kong strike of 1925–6	0
A secularizing society? Case studies of English northern industrial towns in the 1950s	0
News, diplomacy and the 1655 Piedmont massacre in Cromwellian England	0
The role of news and rumour during the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381	0
The organization and output of the ‘controlled English leather economy’, 1711–1830	0
‘Top-down policy, bottom-up countermeasures’: Game playing between Chinese private universities and the party-state, 1927–37	0
The Imperial Maritime Customs and Sino-British exchange of materia medica, 1850s–1900s	0
Christian feminism? Women Against the Ordination of Women and the St. Hilda Community, 1986–92	0
The Marshal partition of 1247: a medieval text’s journey through early modern Ireland	0
Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815	0
Historical Research celebrates its centenary	0
Licensing libel in seventeenth-century England: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in context/s	0
A decade of controversy: sources on the demarcation of Calcutta, 1784–94	0
Ulster’s allies across the Atlantic: the American anti-Irish Home Rule movement, 1911–14	0
Federico da Montefeltro, architect of all undertakings of Ferrante: the diplomatic policy of Edward IV of York between Naples and Rome, 1474–5	0
The diplomatic correspondence between Heinrich Friedrich Diez, Prussian chargé d’affaires at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, and Christian Konrad Wilhelm Dohm: its decipherment and historical rel	0
Crises and opportunities: Irish royal towns during the Bruce invasion	0
The High Priest of Blind Zeal: Milton, Montelion and mockery	0
Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records: computing the representation and sequencing of crimes in Peter Seila’s register of sentences (1241–2)	0
Correction to: Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–1103	0
Freedom of speech, news and the classical republican tradition in seventeenth-century England	0
King Henry VII and the case of the missing treaty: Anglo-Hungarian crusading diplomacy reconsidered	0
Gendered labour, negritude and the Black public sphere	0
Mapping and ‘stage-managing’ elections in the long eighteenth century: electoral culture, popular politics and the rhetoric of political space	0
Profitable settlements: the earl of Warwick and toleration in the English Atlantic, 1643–8	0
The contribution of the parliamentary press to Oliver Cromwell’s image as a military hero of the first English Civil War	0
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees, 1724–1800	0
‘The sanctuary of them all’: the politics of manpower and nationality in the armies in exile in the United Kingdom, 1940–4	0
War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604)	0
‘How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust’: recipes to animate small objects in late medieval European manuscripts	0
The cop and the mob: Joe Petrosino against the Mafia in the United States and Italy during the Progressive Era	0
A climate of fear? The Scottish universities and the question of devolution, 1974–9	0
Tribal agency and the translocalization of the Middle East: the European mandates, the Arab Bedouins and the making of the post-Ottoman order	0
Editorial	0
The origins of civic financial offices in medieval England: the cases of York and Norwich, c .1290–7	0
Documents of revolution and reform: Henry of Marchington, the king’s chancery and the chronicle of Burton	0
Progress across empire: entanglements between Indian and European reformers before the First World War	0
The development of political procession routes and policing the right to march in London, 1780–1915	0
Gladstone and Ireland: a financial approach	0
The Donation of Constantine in John Whethamstede’s Granarium	0
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading	0
War and peace: hired troops and military aid in Byzantine and English treaties, c.900–1200	0
‘Largely a matter of sentiment’? The demise of the battleship in the post-1945 Royal Navy	0
A taste of America: the arrival of the burger in Britain, 1954–94	0
Making beds in early modern England: sleep, matter and environmental change	0
Reformed but not converted: Paolo Sarpi, the English mission in Venice and conceptions of religious change	0
Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–1103	0
Ralph Josselin and eschatology: the anxious millenarian	0
‘Too long mere food for powder’: the British army in Punch, 1841–61	0
The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community	0
‘The Hideous Old Lady of Fashion’: dressing the ageing body in Victorian Britain	0
Speaking to or for the world? Britain, presumed authority and world opinion at the start of the First World War	0
The ‘consequence of an advertisement’: intermediation in the eighteenth-century credit market	0
William the Conqueror’s writ for the City of London	0
Intellectual community in Saint Victor: 1108–c.1200	0