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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	20
Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield , by Daisy Payling, Manchester, Manches	7
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	6
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	3
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	2
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	2
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	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
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
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	2
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	2
Competing narratives for a new university: student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	2
‘Women Against the Common Market’	2
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	1
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	1
The idea of the Labour Left	1
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	1
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	1
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	1
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	1
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	1
“A dying mutual friend”: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	1
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	1
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	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
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	1
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	1
Cultural history of school uniform	1
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	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	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
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	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
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	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
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement	0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000	0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: foreign policy in the face of mass atrocity	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right	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
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
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	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
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	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
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	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
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru	0
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	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
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration?	0
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0

Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	0
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	0
The modernisation of the labour party	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	0
Broken dreams: an intimate history of the midlife crisis	0
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain	0
Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
Debating a Sixties ‘Soldier-Hero’: ‘Mad Mitch’, the Aden Emergency and Saving the Argylls, 1967–68	0
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994	0
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans	0
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East: Claudia Jones, Olive Morris and Mao’s China, 1949–1979	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 making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	0
‘You’ll do what MacGregor couldn’t, you’ll shut the ‘Craig’: steelworkers, the NUM and the 1984–85 miners’ strike	0
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	0
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	0
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales volume III: The rise and fall of penal hope	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 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 successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	0
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party	0
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
New lives, new landscapes revisited: rural modernity in 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
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	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
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England	0
The National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain	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
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s	0
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community	0
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	0
'Britain 1970-2020' & 'Ireland 1970-2020' Book Review	0
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain	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
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film	0
Freedom of movement in Fortress Europe: campaigning for refugees and migrants in the 1990s	0
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	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
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: public planning and private redevelopment in Britain since 1945	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business	0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain	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
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s ¹	0
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	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