OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary British History is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	21
Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield , by Daisy Payling, Manchester, Manches	7
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	7
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	4
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	3
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	3
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties	3
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	2
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	2
“A dying mutual friend”: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	2
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain	2
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	2
The idea of the Labour Left	2
The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	2
Competing narratives for a new university: student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	2
‘Women Against the Common Market’	2
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	2
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	2
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	1
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	1
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	1
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	1
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East: Claudia Jones, Olive Morris and Mao’s China, 1949–1979	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
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	1
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	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
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	1
Cultural history of school uniform	1
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	1
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	1