OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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.)

Article	Citations
Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy. By Daryl Leeworthy	8
‘What did you do to them Klaus?’: The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case and its Impact on the Scientific Community in early Cold War Britain	5
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor	5
The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain	5
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America	4
The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale	4
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda Maynard	4
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Edited by David Fée Sabine Coady Schäbitz and Bob Colenutt	3
The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in 1960s Britain	3
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales: A New Analytical Approach	3
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By Peter Mandler	2
Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives	2
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis	2
The Sociologist and the Subject: Two Historiographies of Post-war Social Science	2
The British Left and the Defence Economy: Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970–83. By Keith Mc Loughlin	2
The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought	2
Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election	2
Queer Beyond London. By Matt Cook and Alison Oram	1
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History	1
‘They didnae tell you nothin’: The Failings of Sex Education, Antenatal Care, and Welfare Bureaucracies in Glasgow, c. 1970s–2000s	1
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By Geraint Thomas	1
Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer. By Harry Potter	1
The Bureaucratization of Death: The First World War, Families, and the State	1
Migrant City: A New History of London. By Panikos Panayi	1
On Historians’ Re-Use of Social-Science Archives	1

Sexual Violence against Children in Britain since 1965: Trailing Abuse. By Nick Basannavar	1
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65. By Sam Manning	1
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS	1
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder. By Alexa Neale	1
The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–72	1
Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One. By Lynda Mugglestone	1
‘No future to look forward to’, Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain	1
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By Hollie Price	1
Diversity and Entrepreneurialism: PN Review, Feminism and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973–1990	1
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney	1
Harold Wilson, ‘Selsdon Man’, and the defence of social democracy in 1970s Britain	1
Playing the Market: Retail Investment and Speculation in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Kieran Heinemann	0
Black Political Worlds in Port Cities: Garveyism in 1920s Britain	0
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By Niamh Gallagher	0
Correction to: In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England	0
Remaking the International Civil Service: The Legacies of British Internationalism in the United Nations Secretariat, 1945–7	0
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919. By Sakiko Kaiga	0
Editorial Introduction	0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards	0
Turn Again, Fascist Studies: New Perspectives on British Fascism	0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–18	0
The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain	0
Armoured Cars and Archbishops: Human Rights, Religious Pressure Groups, and Arms for El Salvador, 1977–8	0
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England	0
Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War. By Simon Topping	0
The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–39	0
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Community Art’ on an Inner-City Estate	0
Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman, By Jim Moher	0
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain	0
Researching and Teaching with British Newsreels	0
‘A British Problem Affecting British People’: Sickle Cell Anaemia, Medical Activism and Race in the National Health Service, 1975–1993	0
Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution	0
The Strange Survival of ‘Embedded Liberalism’: National Economic Management and Globalization in Britain from 1944	0
Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher	0
Searching for God in Britain and Beyond: Reading Letters to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966-1982. By David G. Reagles	0
The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. By Kate Guthrie	0
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley	0
Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain	0
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By Coreen McGuire	0
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. By Zoë Thomas	0
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament Edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto	0
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain. By Bryce Evans	0
Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire. By Niamh Dillon	0
The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in Inter-war Britain	0
Landlordism on Trial: Rent Tribunals and Resistance in Post-War London, 1946–64	0
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization	0
Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty. By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks	0
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Past & Present Book Series). By Laura Carter	0
The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland	0

Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: A Response to the Commentaries on My Paper	0
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb. By Andrew Ramsey	0
The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s	0
Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain. By Robert Savage	0
The Social Scientific Turn in Modern British History	0
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c. 1870-1939. By Laura Harrison	0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F. Edwards	0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2020	0
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim	0
‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–75	0
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By Ewan Gibbs	0
The Flying Sikh Book: The Story of a WWI Fighter Pilot—Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik. By Stephen Barker	0
Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970. By Daniel Gorman	0
The Greater London Council’s Homesteading Scheme: Housing Rehabilitation and the Urban Imaginary of Conservative Politics in London, 1977–81	0
Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. By Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds)	0
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990. By Stephen Kelly	0
Labour’s Economic Ideology Since 1900: Developed Through Crises. By Christopher Kirkland	0
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone	0
Women of the Left, Patriotism, and National Identity, 1914–28	0
Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain	0
Rethinking an Icon of Sixties Britain: The Mini and Its Place in the Post-War Motor Revolution	0
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By Caroline Ritter	0
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation, by Daniel McNeil	0
In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England	0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022	0
Who was Ever ‘a Fisherman’? Revisiting Paul Thompson’s Living the Fishing	0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
United Kingdom. By Adrian Bingham	0
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra	0
The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War. By Susan R. Grayzel	0
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: Some Observations with Reference to the Affluent Worker Study	0
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Landscape of the NHS Hospital, 1948–70	0
Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital	0
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain’s Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. By Dean Blackburn	0
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. Edited by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite	0
Parties, Voters and Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Manchester: Reconnecting Politics and Society	0
Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money. By Laura Clancy	0
Daughters of War: Girl Guides and Service after the First World War	0
A Political Sexual Revolution: Sexual Autonomy in the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s	0
Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National Health Service, 1948–80	0
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900—1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations. By Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, and Ann Roberts	0
‘Flying Gas Mains’: Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain	0
Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s	0
Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth. By H. Kumarasingham (ed.)	0
The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By Seamus Murphy	0
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain’s Late Empire. By Aaron Windel	0
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire. By Emily Baughan	0
Socialism, Nationalism and Tom Nairn’s Dream of Escape	0
‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969–1998. By Jack Hepworth	0
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955. By Jim Philips, Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson	0
Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart	0
Building the BBC-branded NGO: Overseas Development, the World Service, and the Marshall Plan of the Mind, c.1965–99	0
The Early Years of Television and the BBC. By Jamie Medhurst	0
History and Sociology: A Twenty-First Century Rapprochement?	0
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange	0
‘A World Apart’: Change in Student Attitudes during the Interwar Period, 1918–1933	0
Class of ’37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood. By Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer	0
‘Miserable Conflict and Confusion’: The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-22. By Erin Kate Scheopner	0
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life. By Michael Guida	0
Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–50	0
Rethinking Labour’s Past. Edited by Nathan Yeowell	0