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

Article	Citations
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	5
The diplomacy of the United Kingdom in Dudgeon v UK (1976–1983)	4
Socialist republic: remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield	4
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	4
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	3
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	3
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties	3
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	3
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	3
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	3
‘Women Against the Common Market’	3
Competing narratives for a new university: student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	3
‘A dying mutual friend’: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	2
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	2
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	2
Cultural history of school uniform	2
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	2
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	1
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	1
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: public planning and private redevelopment in Britain since 1945	1
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	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

‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	1
‘Unmarried’ housewives and ‘‘up-graded’ women’: Mark Abrams, gender, polling, and the Labour Party, 1959–64	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
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
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	1
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	1
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East: Claudia Jones, Olive Morris and Mao’s China, 1949–1979	1
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s ¹	0
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain	0
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party	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
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain	0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s	0
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
‘Keep the homosexual lobby at bay’: homosexuality, the UK armed forces and the end to the ‘gay ban’, 1991–2000	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
The National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	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
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war 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
‘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
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain	0
Public faces of the Anglo-American special relationship	0
Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond	0
Correction	0
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	0
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
‘You’ll do what MacGregor couldn’t, you’ll shut the ‘Craig’: steelworkers, the NUM and the 1984–85 miners’ strike	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
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	0
The humanist movement in modern Britain: a history of ethicists, rationalists and humanists	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
Freedom without responsibility: how the UK Government ignored engineering competence whilst deregulating fire safety regulation 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
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0

Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	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
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	0
The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	0
This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022	0
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	0
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	0
Keeping the faith, or old wine in new bottles? The Republican Network for Unity and the dilemmas of dissident Irish republicanism	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	0
Freedom of movement in Fortress Europe: campaigning for refugees and migrants in the 1990s	0
Debating a sixties ‘soldier-hero’: ‘Mad Mitch’, the Aden emergency and saving the Argylls, 1967–68	0
British culture after empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000	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 different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	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
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
The British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	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
The European Court of Human Rights, pressure-group politics, and the abolition of corporal punishment in British state schools, 1977–1986	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
The Conservative Party and the closed shop: inherent contradictions, non-compliance and the failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971	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
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community	0
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales volume III: The rise and fall of penal hope	0
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: foreign policy in the face of mass atrocity	0
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	0
Masculinities and images of Political becoming: the British Black Panthers and the London Gay Liberation Front	0
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	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
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 diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948	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
New lives, new landscapes revisited: rural modernity in Britain	0
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans	0
'Britain 1970-2020' & 'Ireland 1970-2020' Book Review	0
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	0
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s	0
Africans and “the Windrush generation” 1948 – 1973: some comparisons and silences	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	0
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	0
Feelings and work in modern history: emotional labour and emotions about labour	0
Memory, Heritage, and Preservation in 20th-Century England	0