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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
National service life stories: masculinity, class and the memory of conscription in Britain	6
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	5
From new dawn to new dispensation: the rapid unravelling of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the Richard Commission and the road to the Government of Wales Act 2006	5
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	5
Socialist republic: remaking the British left in 1980s Sheffield	5
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	4
The diplomacy of the United Kingdom in Dudgeon v UK (1976–1983)	4
Competing narratives for a new university: student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	4
Beyond the end of history: rethinking Britain’s nineties	3
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	3
‘Women Against the Common Market’	3
‘A dying mutual friend’: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	2
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	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
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	2
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	2
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	1
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	1
Measuring poverty in late 1960s Britain: Peter Townsend, relative deprivation and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust	1
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	1
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement	1
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	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

‘Yours fraternally’: the British labour movement and communist Poland, 1976–1982	1
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	1
London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City	1
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	1
‘Unmarried’ housewives and ‘‘up-graded’ women’: Mark Abrams, gender, polling, and the Labour Party, 1959–64	1
An Unorthodox History: British Jews since 1945	1
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the welfare state	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
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: public planning and private redevelopment in Britain since 1945	1
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: New Labour and police force mergers—an analysis of policy failure	1
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	1
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	1
Britain’s Black Left feminists look East: Claudia Jones, Olive Morris and Mao’s China, 1949–1979	1
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	1