OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	11
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	6
‘What else can you expect from class-ridden Britain?’: the Whitehall studies and health inequalities, 1968 to c.2010	5
The media, affect, and community in a decade of disasters: reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire	5
A folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s	5
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain	4
‘Christian civilisation’, ‘modern secularisation’, and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity, 1954-1965	4
Going ‘part of the way together’: Christian intellectuals, modernity and the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain	3
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	3
Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century	3
A coming of age: how and why the UK became the first democracy to allow votes for 18-year-olds	3
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	2
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London	2
The Conservative Party, Concerted Action and the West German economic model 1975-1981	2
Reframing the ‘laws of life’: catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of catholic sexology in interwar Britain	2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century	2
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	2
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens	2
Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain	2
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	2
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	1
Flight to the Sun: Package tours and the Europeanisation of British holiday culture in the 1970s and 1980s	1
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	1
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	1
Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962–2015	1

A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party’s The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s	1
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	1
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	1
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	1
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	1
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	1
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	1
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	1
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-1975	1
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	1
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	1
Britain's conservative right since 1945	0
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	0
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	0
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	0
‘Women Against the Common Market’	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
Love lives: from Cinderella to Frozen Love lives: from Cinderella to Frozen , Carol Dyhouse, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, 277 pp., £20 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 19 885	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity	0
Anger: the conflicted history of an emotion	0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain	0
The politicisation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) in the British domestic debate on Brexit: a challenge to EU-UK foreign and security cooperation	0
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
Broken dreams: an intimate history of the midlife crisis	0
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	0
Failed führers: a history of Britain’s extreme right Failed führers: a history of Britain’s extreme right , Graham Macklin, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, xii+580	0
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, cul	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s	0
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain	0
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence , RICHARD FINLAY, Londo	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
Punk Now!! Contemporary perspectives on punk Punk Now!! Contemporary perspectives on punk , by Matt Grimes and Mike Dines, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA, Intellect, 2020, xii	0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film	0
This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022 This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022 , by Simon J., POTTER	0
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	0
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	0
The long shadow of the air war: composure, memory and the renegotiation of self in the oral testimonies of Bomber Command veterans since 2015	0
NEU! Europe: Krautrock and British representations of West German countercultures during the 1970s	0
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	0

American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
A World Away: The British Package Holiday Boom, 1950–1974 MICHAEL JOHN LAW Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022 xv+232 pp., ISBN 978 0 2280 0858 3 (hbk) (£93), 978 0 2280 0908 5 (pbk) (£24.	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	0
‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis	0
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	0
The culture of male beauty in Britain: from the first photographs to David Beckham The culture of male beauty in Britain: from the first photographs to David Beckham , b	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right , edited by Paul Jackson, Manchester, Manchester Univ	0
Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration?	0
Feelings and work in modern history: emotional labour and emotions about labour Feelings and work in modern history: emotional labour and emotions about labour , edited	0
The modernisation of the labour party	0
Balancing the self: medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century Balancing the self: medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century	0
The humanist movement in modern Britain: a history of ethicists, rationalists and humanists The humanist movement in modern Britain: a history of ethicists, rationalists and humanists	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh Schools	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history	0
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53	0
The idea of the Labour Left	0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	0
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	0
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	0
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s , by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.), London,	0
Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield , by Daisy Payling, Manchester, Manches	0
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the welfare state The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the welfare state , DEREK FRASER, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, x+229 p	0
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	0
Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962 Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962 Louise Settle, London, Bloo	0
The Beatles and Sixties Britain The Beatles and Sixties Britain , MARCUS COLLINS, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xviii+366 pp., ISBN 978 1 108 47724 6 (hbk	0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
Cultural history of school uniform	0
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994	0
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	0
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	0
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	0
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Volume III: The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope DAVID DOWNES London and New York, Routledge, 2021 xii+277 pp., ISBN 978 0 367 65395 8 (hbk) (£	0
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru	0
Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968): Legacy and Assessment Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968): Legacy and Assessment , By TREVOR HARRIS (ed.), Oxford and	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998 ‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside	0
Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and British Tabloid Coverage of David Duke’s 1978 Tour	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood	0
Who governs Britain? trade unions, the conservative party and the failure of the industrial relations act 1971 Who governs Britain? trade unions, the conservative party and the failure	0
Seeking love in modern Britain: gender, dating and the rise of ‘the Single’	0
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	0
Coal Country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialisation in postwar Scotland	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	0
It’s your world too, you can do what you want”: the role of subcultural activism in Stop The City protests (1983-1984) and its implications for political protest in Britain’	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain	0