OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Twentieth Century British History is 1. 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
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
‘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
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
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America	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
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
Queer Beyond London. By Matt Cook and Alison Oram	1