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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	7
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	6
The media, affect, and community in a decade of disasters: reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire	5
Gallantry on the Shankill road: the British ‘soldier-hero’ and state-media relations in Northern Ireland, 1969-1979	4
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain	4
‘Christian civilisation’, ‘modern secularisation’, and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity, 1954-1965	4
‘The Relation of the Sexes’: towards a Christian view of sex and citizenship in interwar Britain	3
A folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s	3
A coming of age: how and why the UK became the first democracy to allow votes for 18-year-olds	3
‘What else can you expect from class-ridden Britain?’: the Whitehall studies and health inequalities, 1968 to c.2010	3
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	3
Going ‘part of the way together’: Christian intellectuals, modernity and the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain	3
Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century	3
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	2
Reframing the ‘laws of life’: catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of catholic sexology in interwar Britain	2
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century	2
The Conservative Party, Concerted Action and the West German economic model 1975-1981	2
‘If ah’ve goat’i choose between putting shoes on ma bairn’s feet and payin’ this bill, ah’m puttin’ shoes on ma bairn’s feet’ – poverty and the poll tax	2
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	2
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London	2
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens	2
Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain	2
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	1
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	1

Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	1
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	1
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-1975	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
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	1
The role of the Church of England in the liberalising of criminal legislation of the 1960s	1
‘I think you have ignored the relevant provisions of the 1944 Education Act’: Muslims, the state and education in England c.1966–c.1985	1
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	1
Glam Rock and the society of the spectacle	1
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	1
Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962–2015	1
Clerical modernisers and the media in Ireland: the journalism of Fr Gerry Reynolds	1
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	0
Love lives: from Cinderella to Frozen	0
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	0
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru	0
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century 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
Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and British Tabloid Coverage of David Duke’s 1978 Tour	0
NEU! Europe: Krautrock and British representations of West German countercultures during the 1970s	0
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	0
The ‘desegregation’ of English Schools: Bussing, Race and Urban Space, 1960s-80s	0
Britain's conservative right since 1945	0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
Coal Country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialisation in postwar Scotland	0
A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh Schools	0
Cultural history of school uniform	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	0
Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history	0
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	0
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century: Literature, Culture and Community	0
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	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
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
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
Transnational Francoism: The British and the Canadian Friends of National Spain (1930s–1950s)	0
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	0
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	0
Me Me Me?	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
A cultural history of twin beds	0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0

Black Handsworth: race in 1980s Britain	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	0
Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence	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
Failed führers: a history of Britain’s extreme right	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
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	0
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	0
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film	0
‘The age-old struggle’ Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998	0
Pride in Prejudice: Understanding Britain’s Extreme Right	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
Seeking love in modern Britain: gender, dating and the rise of ‘the Single’	0
Hypnotising evil: Myra Hindley, hypnosis, and criminal investigations in the UK	0
A biography of loneliness	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	0
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	0
‘Women Against the Common Market’	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
Northern Ireland’s 1968 at 50: agonism and protestant perspectives on civil rights	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	0
The Beatles and Sixties Britain	0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	0
Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration?	0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain	0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	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
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	0
The brace of the Cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
Broken dreams: an intimate history of the midlife crisis	0
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain 200pp	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood	0
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business	0
Balancing the self: medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century	0
The Pope and the Pill: Sex, Catholicism and Women in Post-war England	0
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	0
The idea of the Labour Left	0
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945	0
Anger: the conflicted history of an emotion	0
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	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
‘The Anglo-Irish Agreement put us on side with the Americans’: Margaret Thatcher, Anglo-American relations and the path to the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1979-1985	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
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
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
Architectures of Survival: Air War and Urbanism in Britain, 1935-52	0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity	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
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970sAled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.) London, UCL Press, 2021xvii+377 pp., ISBN 978 1 78735 687 0 (hbk) (£45), 978 1 78735 686 3	0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
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	0
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	0
British Media and the Rwandan Genocide	0
Wilson, Callaghan and the management of Anglo-American relations, 1974-1976	0