Contemporary British History

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.)
ArticleCitations
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-5320
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, Manches6
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s3
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–20213
Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–19792
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–20052
The long shadow of the air war: composure, memory and the renegotiation of self in the oral testimonies of Bomber Command veterans since 20152
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties2
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain2
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices2
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century2
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 19972
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 Britain1
“A dying mutual friend”: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-19911
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy1
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain1
‘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, 1947–721
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy1
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 19451
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 Dialogue1
The idea of the Labour Left1
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-781
Cultural history of school uniform1
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–691
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain1
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 19480
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City0
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-19710
Punk Now!! Contemporary perspectives on punk Punk Now!! Contemporary perspectives on punk , by Matt Grimes and Mike Dines, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA, Intellect, 2020, xii0
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s0
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 humanists0
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 1980s0
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–19290
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-19350
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-20080
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 19450
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–19980
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-19690
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left0
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 20180
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s0
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain0
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-240
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 Liberation0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots0
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-19680
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 , b0
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London0
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism0
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 1990s0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-20070
‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis0
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain0
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity0
Broken dreams: an intimate history of the midlife crisis0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world0
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 8850
Coal Country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialisation in postwar Scotland0
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., POTTER0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 19970
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–20000
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–19700
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy0
Britain's conservative right since 19450
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 century0
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s 10
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 (hbk0
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-19490
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales volume III: The rise and fall of penal hope0
Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond0
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 cooperation0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-800
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–850
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain0
The National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain0
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+5800
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War0
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-20000
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England0
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-19940
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 19680
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film0
Flight to the Sun: Package tours and the Europeanisation of British holiday culture in the 1970s and 1980s0
The modernisation of the labour party0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-19940
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–19750
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five0
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 consequences0
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 p0
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles0
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–19970
NEU! Europe: Krautrock and British representations of West German countercultures during the 1970s0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–20000
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television0
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction0
‘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 coalition0
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-19830
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru0
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 19480
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s0
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence0
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, 1967–680
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister0
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-19870
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-19750
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-19880
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics0
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, Bloo0
A folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s0
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 19450
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right0
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 century0
Seeking love in modern Britain: gender, dating and the rise of ‘the Single’0
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