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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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‘A British Problem Affecting British People’: Sickle Cell Anaemia, Medical Activism and Race in the National Health Service, 1975–19937
Going Places or Out of Place? Representations of Mobile Girls and Young Women in Late-1950s and 1960s Britain6
Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National Health Service, 1948–805
Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives4
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales: A New Analytical Approach4
Bisexuality, Multiple-Gender-Attraction, and Gay Liberation Politics in the 1970s4
‘Race’ and Resistance to Policing Before the ‘Windrush Years’: The Colonial Defence Committee and the Liverpool ‘Race Riots’ of 19484
‘Private Things Affect Other People’: Grange Hill’s Critique of British Sex Education Policy in the Age of AIDS3
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2019—Britain and the Making of Global Order after 19193
‘A Strong International Spirit’: The Influence of Internationalism on the Women’s Co-operative Guild3
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Landscape of the NHS Hospital, 1948–702
In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England2
Ending the ‘Cult of the Broken Home’: Divorce, Children and the Changing Emotional Dynamics of Separating British Families, c. 1945–902
‘The Empire of England’: Enoch Powell, Sovereignty, and the Constitution of the Nation2
The Bureaucratization of Death: The First World War, Families, and the State2
Socialism, Nationalism and Tom Nairn’s Dream of Escape2
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: Some Observations with Reference to the Affluent Worker Study2
The Strange Survival of ‘Embedded Liberalism’: National Economic Management and Globalization in Britain from 19441
Moral Panic in the Industrial Town: Teenage ‘Deviancy’ and Religious Crisis in Central Scotland c. 1968–91
The Greater London Council’s Homesteading Scheme: Housing Rehabilitation and the Urban Imaginary of Conservative Politics in London, 1977–811
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 20201
New Liberalism and the City of London: Reassessing Empire, Finance, and Politics in Francis Hirst’s Economist, 1906–161
The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in 1960s Britain1
Armoured Cars and Archbishops: Human Rights, Religious Pressure Groups, and Arms for El Salvador, 1977–81
The Townscape Movement and the Politics of Post-War Urbanism1
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain1
Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain1
Diversity and Entrepreneurialism: PN Review, Feminism and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973–19901
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By Hollie Price1
On Historians’ Re-Use of Social-Science Archives1
‘Millions of Eyes Were Turned Skywards’: The Air League of the British Empire, Empire Air Day, and the Promotion of Air-mindedness, 1934–91
Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital1
Words as well as Deeds: The Popular Press and Suffragette Hunger Strikes in Edwardian Britain1
Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–501
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS1
Editorial Introduction1
Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain1
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England1
Daughters of War: Girl Guides and Service after the First World War1
Black Political Worlds in Port Cities: Garveyism in 1920s Britain1
The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in Inter-war Britain1
Making a Federal Case: Youth Groups, Students and the 1975 European Economic Community Referendum Campaign to Keep Britain in Europe1
Who was Ever ‘a Fisherman’? Revisiting Paul Thompson’s Living the Fishing1
The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–720
The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97. By Christopher Massey0
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53. By Edward Owens0
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. By Zoë Thomas0
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990. By Stephen Kelly0
Correction to: In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F. Edwards0
The Exiles: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London. By Daria Santini0
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization0
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor0
Erratum0
Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty. By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks0
Queer Beyond London. By Matt Cook and Alison Oram0
Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Second World War Britain. By Lucy Noakes0
Me, Me Me?: The Search for Community in Post-war England. By Jon Lawrence0
Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War. By Simon Topping0
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone0
Race, Archival Silences, and a Black Footballer Between the Wars0
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Past & Present Book Series). By Laura Carter0
‘A World Apart’: Change in Student Attitudes during the Interwar Period, 1918–19330
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. Edited by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite0
Sexual Violence against Children in Britain since 1965: Trailing Abuse. By Nick Basannavar0
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War. By Tim Bouverie0
The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale0
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley0
Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-90. By Carmen Mangion0
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By Niamh Gallagher0
Searching for God in Britain and Beyond: Reading Letters to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966-1982. By David G. Reagles0
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament Edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto0
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire. By Emily Baughan0
Migrant City: A New History of London. By Panikos Panayi0
The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain0
Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy. By Daryl Leeworthy0
The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought0
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney0
The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980. By Callum G. Brown0
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 20220
Labour’s Economic Ideology Since 1900: Developed Through Crises. By Christopher Kirkland0
The Official History of the British Civil Service: Reforming the Civil Service, Volume II: The Thatcher and Major Revolutions, 1982–97 (Government Official History Series), hdbk. By Rodney Lowe0
The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By Seamus Murphy0
Parties, Voters and Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Manchester: Reconnecting Politics and Society0
The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War. By Susan R. Grayzel0
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919. By Sakiko Kaiga0
Landlordism on Trial: Rent Tribunals and Resistance in Post-War London, 1946–640
Building the BBC-branded NGO: Overseas Development, the World Service, and the Marshall Plan of the Mind, c.1965–990
Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain0
‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–750
The Sociologist and the Subject: Two Historiographies of Post-war Social Science0
The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles. By Margaret M. Scull0
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By Caroline Ritter0
The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain. By James Stark0
Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire. By Niamh Dillon0
A Progressive Education? How Childhood Changed in Mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh Schools. By Laura Tisdall0
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain’s Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. By Dean Blackburn0
‘No future to look forward to’, Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain0
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange0
Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factories, 1945-82. By Jack Saunders0
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955. By Jim Philips, Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson0
Turn Again, Fascist Studies: New Perspectives on British Fascism0
The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s0
The Making of Thatcherism: The Conservative Party in opposition: 1975-79. By Philip Begley0
Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present. By Margaretta Jolly0
Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One. By Lynda Mugglestone0
The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland0
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65. By Sam Manning0
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money. By Laura Clancy0
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation, by Daniel McNeil0
Feeling the Strain: A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-century Britain. By Jill Kirby0
Conscience and Empire0
‘Flying Gas Mains’: Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain0
Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. By Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds)0
Class of ’37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood. By Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer0
‘They didnae tell you nothin’: The Failings of Sex Education, Antenatal Care, and Welfare Bureaucracies in Glasgow, c. 1970s–2000s0
Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart0
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain. By Bryce Evans0
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb. By Andrew Ramsey0
‘Standing up for Scotland’: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014. By David Torrance0
The Social Scientific Turn in Modern British History0
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c. 1870-1939. By Laura Harrison0
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life. By Michael Guida0
Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer. By Harry Potter0
Remaking the International Civil Service: The Legacies of British Internationalism in the United Nations Secretariat, 1945–70
Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election0
The Early Years of Television and the BBC. By Jamie Medhurst0
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: A Response to the Commentaries on My Paper0
Rethinking Labour’s Past. Edited by Nathan Yeowell0
Women, Workplace Protest and Political Identity in England, 1968–85. By Jonathan Moss0
United Kingdom. By Adrian Bingham0
Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher0
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War: Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood. By Maggie Andrews0
The Falklands War: An Imperial History. By Ezequiel Mercau0
Lawyers for the Poor: Legal Advice, Voluntary Action, and Citizenship in England, 1890-1990. By Kate Bradley0
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis0
Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain. By Robert Savage0
Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England. By Barry Hazley0
Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s0
Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives. Edited by Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor and Philip Hew0
Playing the Market: Retail Investment and Speculation in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Kieran Heinemann0
Researching and Teaching with British Newsreels0
Harold Wilson, ‘Selsdon Man’, and the defence of social democracy in 1970s Britain0
Rethinking an Icon of Sixties Britain: The Mini and Its Place in the Post-War Motor Revolution0
‘Dear Dr K’: Mobility, Sex, and Selfhood in Alfred Kinsey’s British World Correspondence, 1948–580
The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain0
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900—1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations. By Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, and Ann Roberts0
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By Coreen McGuire0
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History0
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda Maynard0
The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–390
Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman, By Jim Moher0
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–180
The Place of Irish History in Modern ‘British’ History The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland. Edited by Eugenio Biagini and Mary Daly0
Women on the Front Line: British Servicewomen’s Path to Combat. By Kathleen Sherit0
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra0
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Community Art’ on an Inner-City Estate0
Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution0
The Churchill Myths. By Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain0
Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970. By Daniel Gorman0
Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth. By H. Kumarasingham (ed.)0
White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960. By Christopher Hallam0
From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes: The British Honours System in the Twentieth Century. By Tobias Harper0
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder. By Alexa Neale0
A Political Sexual Revolution: Sexual Autonomy in the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s0
The Flying Sikh Book: The Story of a WWI Fighter Pilot—Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik. By Stephen Barker0
Civilian Specialists at War: Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War. By Christopher Phillips0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards0
‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969–1998. By Jack Hepworth0
Collective Security or Colonial Revolution? The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire, Anticolonialism, and the Popular Front0
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By Ewan Gibbs0
‘She Used to Doctor Us up Herself’: Patent Medicines, Mothers, and Expertise in Early Twentieth-Century Britain0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain0
The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. By Kate Guthrie0
The Pope and the Pill: Sex Catholicism and Women in Post-war England. By David Geiringer0
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Edited by David Fée Sabine Coady Schäbitz and Bob Colenutt0
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain’s Late Empire. By Aaron Windel0
‘What did you do to them Klaus?’: The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case and its Impact on the Scientific Community in early Cold War Britain0
Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939. By Simon J. Potter0
History and Sociology: A Twenty-First Century Rapprochement?0
ERRATUM: The Empire of England: Enoch Powell, Sovereignty, and the Constitution of the Nation0
The British Left and the Defence Economy: Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970–83. By Keith Mc Loughlin0
Women of the Left, Patriotism, and National Identity, 1914–280
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech. By Evan Smith0
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood. By Helen McCarthy0
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By Geraint Thomas0
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim0
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By Peter Mandler0
Thinking Imperially: The British Fascisti and the Politics of Empire, 1923–350
‘Miserable Conflict and Confusion’: The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-22. By Erin Kate Scheopner0
Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945–1970. By Lise Butler0
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