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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	11
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	6
The media, affect, and community in a decade of disasters: reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire	5
A folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s	5
‘What else can you expect from class-ridden Britain?’: the Whitehall studies and health inequalities, 1968 to c.2010	5
‘Christian civilisation’, ‘modern secularisation’, and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity, 1954-1965	4
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain	4
Going ‘part of the way together’: Christian intellectuals, modernity and the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain	3
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	3
Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century	3
A coming of age: how and why the UK became the first democracy to allow votes for 18-year-olds	3
Reframing the ‘laws of life’: catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of catholic sexology in interwar Britain	2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century	2
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	2
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens	2
Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain	2
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	2
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	2
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London	2
The Conservative Party, Concerted Action and the West German economic model 1975-1981	2
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	1
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	1
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	1
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	1
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	1

Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	1
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	1
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-1975	1
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	1
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	1
Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971	1
Flight to the Sun: Package tours and the Europeanisation of British holiday culture in the 1970s and 1980s	1
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	1
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	1
Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962–2015	1
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	1