Twentieth Century British History

Papers
(The median citation count of Twentieth Century British 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy. By Daryl Leeworthy8
The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain5
‘What did you do to them Klaus?’: The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case and its Impact on the Scientific Community in early Cold War Britain5
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor5
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda Maynard4
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America4
The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale4
The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in 1960s Britain3
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales: A New Analytical Approach3
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Edited by David Fée Sabine Coady Schäbitz and Bob Colenutt3
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis2
The Sociologist and the Subject: Two Historiographies of Post-war Social Science2
The British Left and the Defence Economy: Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970–83. By Keith Mc Loughlin2
The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought2
Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election2
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By Peter Mandler2
Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives2
Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One. By Lynda Mugglestone1
‘No future to look forward to’, Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain1
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By Hollie Price1
Diversity and Entrepreneurialism: PN Review, Feminism and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973–19901
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney1
Harold Wilson, ‘Selsdon Man’, and the defence of social democracy in 1970s Britain1
Queer Beyond London. By Matt Cook and Alison Oram1
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History1
‘They didnae tell you nothin’: The Failings of Sex Education, Antenatal Care, and Welfare Bureaucracies in Glasgow, c. 1970s–2000s1
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By Geraint Thomas1
Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer. By Harry Potter1
The Bureaucratization of Death: The First World War, Families, and the State1
Migrant City: A New History of London. By Panikos Panayi1
On Historians’ Re-Use of Social-Science Archives1
Sexual Violence against Children in Britain since 1965: Trailing Abuse. By Nick Basannavar1
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65. By Sam Manning1
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS1
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder. By Alexa Neale1
The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–721
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Past & Present Book Series). By Laura Carter0
Labour’s Economic Ideology Since 1900: Developed Through Crises. By Christopher Kirkland0
Women of the Left, Patriotism, and National Identity, 1914–280
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: A Response to the Commentaries on My Paper0
In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England0
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By Caroline Ritter0
Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain. By Robert Savage0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain0
The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 20220
The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War. By Susan R. Grayzel0
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c. 1870-1939. By Laura Harrison0
United Kingdom. By Adrian Bingham0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F. Edwards0
Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital0
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim0
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: Some Observations with Reference to the Affluent Worker Study0
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By Ewan Gibbs0
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. Edited by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite0
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990. By Stephen Kelly0
The Greater London Council’s Homesteading Scheme: Housing Rehabilitation and the Urban Imaginary of Conservative Politics in London, 1977–810
Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain0
Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain0
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone0
A Political Sexual Revolution: Sexual Autonomy in the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s0
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation, by Daniel McNeil0
Rethinking an Icon of Sixties Britain: The Mini and Its Place in the Post-War Motor Revolution0
‘Flying Gas Mains’: Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain0
Who was Ever ‘a Fisherman’? Revisiting Paul Thompson’s Living the Fishing0
The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By Seamus Murphy0
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra0
Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s0
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Landscape of the NHS Hospital, 1948–700
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire. By Emily Baughan0
‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969–1998. By Jack Hepworth0
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain’s Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. By Dean Blackburn0
Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart0
The Early Years of Television and the BBC. By Jamie Medhurst0
Parties, Voters and Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Manchester: Reconnecting Politics and Society0
‘Miserable Conflict and Confusion’: The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-22. By Erin Kate Scheopner0
‘A World Apart’: Change in Student Attitudes during the Interwar Period, 1918–19330
Rethinking Labour’s Past. Edited by Nathan Yeowell0
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money. By Laura Clancy0
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life. By Michael Guida0
Daughters of War: Girl Guides and Service after the First World War0
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By Niamh Gallagher0
Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National Health Service, 1948–800
Playing the Market: Retail Investment and Speculation in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Kieran Heinemann0
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900—1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations. By Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, and Ann Roberts0
Remaking the International Civil Service: The Legacies of British Internationalism in the United Nations Secretariat, 1945–70
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain’s Late Empire. By Aaron Windel0
Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth. By H. Kumarasingham (ed.)0
Editorial Introduction0
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955. By Jim Philips, Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson0
Socialism, Nationalism and Tom Nairn’s Dream of Escape0
Turn Again, Fascist Studies: New Perspectives on British Fascism0
History and Sociology: A Twenty-First Century Rapprochement?0
Building the BBC-branded NGO: Overseas Development, the World Service, and the Marshall Plan of the Mind, c.1965–990
The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain0
Class of ’37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood. By Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer0
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange0
The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–390
Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–500
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England0
Black Political Worlds in Port Cities: Garveyism in 1920s Britain0
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Community Art’ on an Inner-City Estate0
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain0
Correction to: In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England0
‘A British Problem Affecting British People’: Sickle Cell Anaemia, Medical Activism and Race in the National Health Service, 1975–19930
The Strange Survival of ‘Embedded Liberalism’: National Economic Management and Globalization in Britain from 19440
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919. By Sakiko Kaiga0
Searching for God in Britain and Beyond: Reading Letters to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966-1982. By David G. Reagles0
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards0
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament Edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto0
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By Coreen McGuire0
The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in Inter-war Britain0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain0
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain. By Bryce Evans0
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–180
Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty. By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks0
Armoured Cars and Archbishops: Human Rights, Religious Pressure Groups, and Arms for El Salvador, 1977–80
Landlordism on Trial: Rent Tribunals and Resistance in Post-War London, 1946–640
Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War. By Simon Topping0
The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland0
Researching and Teaching with British Newsreels0
Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman, By Jim Moher0
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb. By Andrew Ramsey0
Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher0
Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution0
The Social Scientific Turn in Modern British History0
Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain0
The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. By Kate Guthrie0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 20200
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. By Zoë Thomas0
The Flying Sikh Book: The Story of a WWI Fighter Pilot—Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik. By Stephen Barker0
Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire. By Niamh Dillon0
‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–750
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization0
Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970. By Daniel Gorman0
Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. By Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds)0
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