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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	6
National service life stories: masculinity, class and the memory of conscription in Britain	5
Socialist republic: remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield	5
The diplomacy of the United Kingdom in Dudgeon v UK (1976–1983)	4
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	4
From new dawn to new dispensation: the rapid unravelling of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the Richard Commission and the road to the Government of Wales Act 2006	4
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties	4
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	4
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	3
Competing narratives for a new university: student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	3
‘Women Against the Common Market’	3
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	3
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	2
‘A dying mutual friend’: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	2
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	2
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	2
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	2
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the welfare state	1
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
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	1
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	1
‘Yours fraternally’: the British labour movement and communist Poland, 1976–1982	1
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	1
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1

Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	1
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	1
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East: Claudia Jones, Olive Morris and Mao’s China, 1949–1979	1
‘Unmarried’ housewives and ‘‘up-graded’ women’: Mark Abrams, gender, polling, and the Labour Party, 1959–64	1
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: New Labour and police force mergers—an analysis of policy failure	1
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	1
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	1
An Unorthodox History: British Jews since 1945	1
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	1
Measuring poverty in late 1960s Britain: Peter Townsend, relative deprivation and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust	1
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: public planning and private redevelopment in Britain since 1945	1
‘You’ll do what MacGregor couldn’t, you’ll shut the ‘Craig’: steelworkers, the NUM and the 1984–85 miners’ strike	0
Speaking, citizenship and Commonwealth immigration in post-war Britain	0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000	0
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party	0
The Conservative Party and the closed shop: inherent contradictions, non-compliance and the failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971	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	0
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales volume III: The rise and fall of penal hope	0
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948	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
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
The European Court of Human Rights, pressure-group politics, and the abolition of corporal punishment in British state schools, 1977–1986	0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
Feelings and work in modern history: emotional labour and emotions about labour	0
‘Keep the homosexual lobby at bay’: homosexuality, the UK armed forces and the end to the ‘gay ban’, 1991–2000	0
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s ¹	0
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	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 National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain	0
Masculinities and images of Political becoming: the British Black Panthers and the London Gay Liberation Front	0
‘One of the few people I knew who would be in sympathy with what we are doing here’: Richard Lynn, the Conservative Party and the construction of the New Right coalition	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
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998	0
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain	0
Designing Democracy: third way political thought, public design, and the politics of uncertainty in Britain’s long 1990s	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans	0
The humanist movement in modern Britain: a history of ethicists, rationalists and humanists	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
Correction	0
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left	0
Debating a sixties ‘soldier-hero’: ‘Mad Mitch’, the Aden emergency and saving the Argylls, 1967–68	0

Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond	0
Africans and “the Windrush generation” 1948 – 1973: some comparisons and silences	0
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain	0
'Britain 1970-2020' & 'Ireland 1970-2020' Book Review	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	0
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	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
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
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	0
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	0
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	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
This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022	0
Battling the ‘big clunking fist’: Gordon Brown’s Treasury, the first Comprehensive Spending Review and the Strategic Defence Review of 1997–98	0
Public faces of the Anglo-American special relationship	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
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement	0
The culture of male beauty in Britain: from the first photographs to David Beckham	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s	0
Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War	0
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	0
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	0
Keeping the faith, or old wine in new bottles? The Republican Network for Unity and the dilemmas of dissident Irish republicanism	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
Memory, Heritage, and Preservation in 20th-Century England	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
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
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	0
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
Freedom without responsibility: how the UK Government ignored engineering competence whilst deregulating fire safety regulation in the 1980s	0
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right	0
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
New lives, new landscapes revisited: rural modernity in Britain	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	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
British culture after empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
Freedom of movement in Fortress Europe: campaigning for refugees and migrants in the 1990s	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	0