OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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.)

Article	Citations
Production of parchment legal deeds in England, 1690–1830	3
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
Lord Bergavenny’s illegal retaining revisited, 1501–22	2
The heart of the maritime world: London’s ‘mercantile’ coffee houses in the Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence, 1756–83	2
Henry VII and the Tower of London: the context of the ‘confession’ of Sir James Tyrell in 1502	2
Religious masculinities in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum	2
‘Reform or revolution’, redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918–19 German Revolution	1
Response to ‘Training in Historical Research: An Introduction’	1
Captain Pennington’s perplexity: the loan of English ships to France, 1625	1
Town Talk: enhancing the ‘eyes and ears’ of the colonial state in British Hong Kong, 1950s–1975	1
‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War	1
The ‘proclamation’ statute of 1454 and its implementation to 1460: an insight into the effectiveness of late Lancastrian government	1
Changing interpretations of Ian Smith in the British press, 1980–2007	1
The diplomatic authority of William Davison	1
Whiteness is not enough: South Africa and the 1922 responsible government referendum in Southern Rhodesia	1
Malignant passions and carnal desires: rape in long eighteenth-century Scotland	1
Overlapping authorities, vikings in Frisia and the church of Utrecht	1
Memorandum concerning Joseph Priestley	1
Bestselling ballads and the Bible in England, c.1560–1700	1
Bodies in the belfry: gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London	1
The official career of Sir Christopher Hales, attorney general and master of the rolls under Henry VIII	1
Documents hidden behind a wall: an episode in the long-term archival conflict between the Este and the Roman Apostolic Chamber, 1633	1
China in African American cosmopolitanism, 1919–29	1
Irreducible ambiguity? The line between custom and statute in the law-making of thirteenth-century Poland	1

Putting the Catholics back in: the ‘rise of Arminianism’ reconsidered	1
The aftermath and afterlives of the Napier Fizzle across the British empire, 1834–42; or, how did Lord Napier die?	0
Making peace in the English civil wars	0
Historic doubts about the survival of the Princes in the Tower after 1485	0
Gladstone and Ireland: a financial approach	0
‘Better off with Labour’? Fiscal policy, electoral strategy and the road to John Smith’s shadow budget, 1979–92	0
A taste of America: the arrival of the burger in Britain, 1954–94	0
The organization and output of the ‘controlled English leather economy’, 1711–1830	0
Recording a revolution: the clerk of the parliaments and the journals of the house of lords, 1640–9	0
Professionalism, perfidy and personal circumstance in the life of Marchamont Nedham	0
‘Peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world’: British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892–1919	0
War and peace: hired troops and military aid in Byzantine and English treaties, c.900–1200	0
‘Too long mere food for powder’: the British army in Punch, 1841–61	0
The nineties in 1990s Britain: long-sighted temporalities at the turn of the millennium	0
The Zaran company in the Holy Land: an unknown fourth crusade charter from Acre	0
Speaking to or for the world? Britain, presumed authority and world opinion at the start of the First World War	0
Historical Research celebrates its centenary	0
Lustrous silk and dark wool: materiality, colour and the refashioning of St. Augustine in the medieval imagination	0
Intellectual community in Saint Victor: 1108–c.1200	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
‘How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust’: recipes to animate small objects in late medieval European manuscripts	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
The Marshal partition of 1247: a medieval text’s journey through early modern Ireland	0
Forging liberal states: Palmerston’s foreign policy and the rise of a constitutional monarchy in Spain, 1833–7	0
The 2021 Historical Research lecture: Historians, accountabilities and judgement	0
King Henry VII and the case of the missing treaty: Anglo-Hungarian crusading diplomacy reconsidered	0
‘The sanctuary of them all’: the politics of manpower and nationality in the armies in exile in the United Kingdom, 1940–4	0
Correction to: Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–1103	0
Jan Huygen van Linschoten and the Reys-gheschrift: updating Iberian Science for the Dutch expansion	0
The contribution of the parliamentary press to Oliver Cromwell’s image as a military hero of the first English Civil War	0
Slavery and charity: Tobias Rustat and the African companies, 1662–94	0
Language, historical culture and the gentry of later Stuart Cornwall and south-west Wales	0
Radical and/or respectable: coverage of radical politics in The Times and the Manchester Guardian in interwar Britain	0
Anti-Bolshevism and the periodical press in interwar Britain: the case of the Saturday Review, 1933–6	0
The socio-environmental impact of mining in a peripheral Andean region, 1776–1831	0
Edward Long’s observations on Jamaican slavery and British slave trade abolition	0
The trade fair network in Apulia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries	0
Intruders in the Scottish church: clerical allegiance and English clergymen in Scotland during the Second War of Independence, 1332–57	0
The bewildered peasant: family, migration and murder in the Greek Cypriot community in London	0
The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London	0
Artistic households: the economics of creative work in seventeenth-century London	0
The role of news and rumour during the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381	0
Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–1900	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
Ralph of Diss, the coronation of Philip Augustus (1179) and the English claim to the French throne	0
Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–90	0
Jesting culture and religious politics in seventeenth-century England	0
‘Largely a matter of sentiment’? The demise of the battleship in the post-1945 Royal Navy	0
Licensing libel in seventeenth-century England: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in context/s	0

Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility	0
Signs of economic development in the Kingdom of Naples under the Aragonese Crown: the Coppola Company	0
News, diplomacy and the 1655 Piedmont massacre in Cromwellian England	0
Parish councils, political inclusion, Liberal politics and the question of class: the 1894 elections as a forgotten phase in British democratization	0
King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy	0
The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community	0
Popular politics, heritage and memories of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918–2020	0
Foreign policy thought in Weimar’s ‘conservative revolution’: realpolitik or a question of being?	0
The politics of press astrology in wartime Britain, 1939–42	0
Life after death: uses in practice in the fifteenth century	0
Christian feminism? Women Against the Ordination of Women and the St. Hilda Community, 1986–92	0
Making beds in early modern England: sleep, matter and environmental change	0
Reassessing the productivity of enslavement on large-scale plantations and small farms in Brazilian cotton production (c.1750–c.1810)	0
The 1444 Sunday law of London	0
Translating between the lines: the rape of Constance Mauduit and histories of violation	0
Navigating the Reformation in Suffolk: the painters’ perspectives	0
Civic factions, denied conversions and the first European narrative of Jewish infanticide: Praejectus of Clermont’s Deeds of Austremonius (c.650/75)	0
Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41	0
Vel maiorum relatio uel librorum reuolutio: oral informants and information in the works of William of Malmesbury	0
‘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
Conservative politics and Whig colonial government, 1830–41	0
War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604)	0
Progress across empire: entanglements between Indian and European reformers before the First World War	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
A climate of fear? The Scottish universities and the question of devolution, 1974–9	0
The long history of child sponsorship, c.1700–1950	0
Editorial	0
Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815	0
The monks of Rochester and the hospital of St. Mary of Strood: a twelfth-century dispute reassessed	0
Schools of clerks, schools of knights: John Grandisson and Hugh de Courtenay’s French correspondence, 1329–40	0
Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain	0
Connected historiographies: cross-border exchanges on the French Revolution (U.S.S.R.–France, 1917–41)	0
The Donation of Constantine in John Whethamstede’s Granarium	0
Editorial: An archival view of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research	0
A secularizing society? Case studies of English northern industrial towns in the 1950s	0
Reformed but not converted: Paolo Sarpi, the English mission in Venice and conceptions of religious change	0
The Imperial Maritime Customs and Sino-British exchange of materia medica, 1850s–1900s	0
‘The Hideous Old Lady of Fashion’: dressing the ageing body in Victorian Britain	0
Gendered labour, negritude and the Black public sphere	0
A decade of controversy: sources on the demarcation of Calcutta, 1784–94	0
Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–1103	0
William the Conqueror’s writ for the City of London	0
No more parades? Navy Weeks, naval theatre and navalism, 1927–38	0
Ulster’s allies across the Atlantic: the American anti-Irish Home Rule movement, 1911–14	0
The High Priest of Blind Zeal: Milton, Montelion and mockery	0
A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I	0
Freedom of speech, news and the classical republican tradition in seventeenth-century England	0
Correction to: The trial of Thomas Frogbrook: bestiality and the law in an early sixteenth-century English rural community	0
The ‘consequence of an advertisement’: intermediation in the eighteenth-century credit market	0
Profitable settlements: the earl of Warwick and toleration in the English Atlantic, 1643–8	0
Resituating Henrician Ireland: imperium, prophecy and Reformation between the Atlantic and Eurasian worlds, 1514–47	0
‘It bringeth them into dangerous perill’: management of and recovery after miscarriage in early modern England, c.1600–1750	0
A newly discovered Anglo-Lusignan truce (8 January 1222)	0
The cop and the mob: Joe Petrosino against the Mafia in the United States and Italy during the Progressive Era	0
Ghosts of war: China’s relations with Portugal in the post-war period, 1945–9	0
Multilingualism and crusade preaching: the narrative on Bernard of Clairvaux’s preaching in Germany	0
Mapping and ‘stage-managing’ elections in the long eighteenth century: electoral culture, popular politics and the rhetoric of political space	0
Mercenary gentlemen? The transnational service of foreign quarterdeck officers in the Royal Navy of the American and French wars, 1775–1815	0
‘A legend somewhat larger than life’: Karl H. von Wiegand and the trajectory of Hearstian sensationalist journalism	0
‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship	0
One hundred and eighty-two overlooked British comments on Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees, 1724–1800	0
‘Likely to make good soldiers’: mobilizing Britain’s criminal population during the First World War	0
The emergence of Leveller polemic: William Walwyn, collaborative authorship and radical identity, 1645–7	0
The emotional evidence of early modern English plague wills	0
Rumour, slander and propaganda in fifteenth-century Scottish politics	0