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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53	20
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	6
Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield , by Daisy Payling, Manchester, Manches	6
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	3
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	3
Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	2
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	2
The long shadow of the air war: composure, memory and the renegotiation of self in the oral testimonies of Bomber Command veterans since 2015	2
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties	2
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain	2
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	2
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century	2
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	2
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	2
‘Women Against the Common Market’	1
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	1
“A dying mutual friend”: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	1
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	1
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	1
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	1
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	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
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	1
The idea of the Labour Left	1
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	1
Cultural history of school uniform	1
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	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
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s	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
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
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945	0
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998	0
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	0
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left	0
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain	0
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	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
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
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	0
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	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
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London	0
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
Freedom of movement in Fortress Europe: campaigning for refugees and migrants in the 1990s	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	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
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain	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 West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity	0
Broken dreams: an intimate history of the midlife crisis	0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	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
Coal Country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialisation in postwar Scotland	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
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

‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000	0
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	0
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	0
Britain's conservative right since 1945	0
Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration?	0
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	0
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s ¹	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
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party	0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales volume III: The rise and fall of penal hope	0
Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond	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
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	0
The National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain	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
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	0
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans	0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England	0
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film	0
Flight to the Sun: Package tours and the Europeanisation of British holiday culture in the 1970s and 1980s	0
The modernisation of the labour party	0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	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
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	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
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	0
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	0
NEU! Europe: Krautrock and British representations of West German countercultures during the 1970s	0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	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
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	0
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru	0
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
Debating a Sixties ‘Soldier-Hero’: ‘Mad Mitch’, the Aden Emergency and Saving the Argylls, 1967–68	0
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	0
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	0
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-1975	0
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	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 folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s	0
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement	0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right	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
Seeking love in modern Britain: gender, dating and the rise of ‘the Single’	0