OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53	20
Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield Socialist Republic: Remaking the British Left in 1980s Sheffield , by Daisy Payling, Manchester, Manches	6
British diplomatic re-engagement in the Pacific: more than just words?	6
Working through industrial absence: Scotland’s community business movement and the moral economies of deindustrialisation in the 1980s and 1990s	3
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021	3
Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979	2
Campaigning against workplace ‘sexual harassment’ in the UK: law, discourse and the news press c. 1975–2005	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
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
Performing Welsh Government 1999–2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices	2
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party	2
From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’ in the mid-to-late twentieth-century	2
The Conservative Party and DFID: party statecraft and development policy since 1997	2
Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)	2
‘Dear Oxfam’: consumer-supporter-activism, NGO accountability and the boundaries of the political in the Barclays boycott, 1970-1991	1
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy	1
‘Implacable Enemies’? The Labour Party and the intelligence community in 1920s Britain	1
‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’	1
‘In trust for the three nations’? The India Office Library & Records dispute, 1947–72	1
Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy	1
The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945	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
Creating a ‘deplorable impression’: the Dryden Society’s 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue	1
The idea of the Labour Left	1

The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78	1
Cultural history of school uniform	1
Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69	1
For club, country, and capitalism? Footballers’ autobiographies and the political and moral economies of post-war Britain	1
‘Women Against the Common Market’	1
‘The way we were razed’: pubic hair and permissiveness in 1970s Britain	1
“A dying mutual friend”: popular music and the politics of deindustrialisation in Scotland in the long 1980s	1
‘A new and disturbing form of subversion’: Militant Tendency, MI5 and the threat of Trotskyism in Britain, 1937-1987	0
‘Towards a modern democracy’? The constitutional politics of the 1990s British left	0
‘The age-old struggle’: Irish republicanism from the battle of the Bogside to the Belfast agreement, 1969–1998	0
Debating a Sixties ‘Soldier-Hero’: ‘Mad Mitch’, the Aden Emergency and Saving the Argylls, 1967–68	0
‘It was like a big union’: emotional communities, working-class subjectivities and the popular memory of acid house and rave	0
Queer citizenship in 1990s Britain	0
Bolshevik bogies: red scares in Britain, 1919-24	0
Labour’s Neighbours: reconceptualising the Ramsay Street boom and British politics from Thatcher to Blair	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
Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots	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
‘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 The culture of male beauty in Britain: from the first photographs to David Beckham , b	0
American management strategy in the British civil service: the post-1968 office work measurement crusade and the rise of managerialism	0
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television	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
Freedom of movement in Fortress Europe: campaigning for refugees and migrants in the 1990s	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
Haunting reform: older women, English Good Shepherd institutions and the Children Act 1948	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
The neoliberal age? Britain since the 1970s	0
‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain	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
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
Chancellor Churchill: the Treasury, party politics and the reinvention of Budget Day, 1924–1929	0
Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain	0
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008	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
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945	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
Murder on Waterloo Bridge: placing the assassination of Georgi Markov in past and present context, 1970 - 2018	0
‘A state of almost surreal vice versa’: the devolution referendums in Wales, 1979 and 1997	0
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969	0
Mass-Observers at the ‘atomic crossroads’	0
Black women’s work in late twentieth-century Britain: changes, continuities, and social mobility, c. 1970–2000	0
From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s	0
Spartacus magazine and the commercial-political nexus of Gay Liberation	0
Britain's conservative right since 1945	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
Did Britain rule the world again? The international fashion market and the continental look in 1960s London	0
From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party	0
‘Proud of our families’: single-parent activism in the 1990s ¹	0

The Wilson government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the royal commission on the constitution, 1966-1968	0
‘Keep the party Labour’: the Grassroots Alliance and activist opposition to New Labour, 1994-2007	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 British Council and British cultural diplomacy 1934-1959: a new form of diplomacy?	0
The diplomatic departure from limbo: three valedictory despatches by British consuls in Hanoi during the period of the Vietnam War	0
Whip in my valise: British punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85	0
Are we rich yet? The rise of mass investment culture in contemporary Britain	0
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity	0
The National Lottery, religion, and community in mid-1990s Britain	0
Avoiding (unwanted) departures: British diplomacy and Soviet Bloc dissidents during the Cold War	0
Protective practices: a history of the London rubber company and the condom business	0
Introduction. Diplomatic departures: negotiating Britain’s international outreach in the contemporary world	0
International Sexpionage! European Popular Film on Sixties British Cinema Screens	0
Coal Country: the meaning and memory of deindustrialisation in postwar Scotland	0
‘Sacrificed on the altar of progress and science’: early cases of disputed disease among British nuclear test veterans	0
Research excellence and the origins of the managerial university in Thatcher's Britain	0
Rethinking rapes: men’s sex lives and feminist critiques	0
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: literature, culture and community	0
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970	0
‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts	0
David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy	0
Flight to the Sun: Package tours and the Europeanisation of British holiday culture in the 1970s and 1980s	0
Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration?	0
Spying (in)spires: The dwindling likelihood of an Oxford spy ring to rival the Cambridge Five	0
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century	0
Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975	0
“Instamatic living rooms of sin”: pornography, participation and the erotics of ordinariness in the 1970s	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 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
Feminist cash for feminist culture: considering philanthropy in the UK women’s liberation movement, Black power and beyond	0
Resist, organize, build: feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States during the long 1980s	0
One movement, three clusters: the national parks movement in England and Wales, 1929-1949	0
The opportunity and desire to buy: owner-occupation in Scotland’s new towns, c. 1950-80	0
Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998–2000	0
NEU! Europe: Krautrock and British representations of West German countercultures during the 1970s	0
Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life	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
‘A different species’: the British Labour Party and the Militant ‘other’, 1979-1983	0
Writing Europe into British cultural history: an introduction	0
History from the top shelf: the cultural politics of sex in post-war Britain	0
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies: popular memory, working-class men and racialised masculinities in deindustrialising Britain, 1970s–1990s	0
Cultural diplomacy in times of crisis: the British Council’s departure from Burma during the military dictatorship (1962-1966)	0
Productive European cooperation between Britain and Germany: the Swansea-Mannheim town twinning partnership and exchanges between Wales and Baden-Württemberg, 1950-2000	0
Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England	0
The brace of the cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister	0
Enthusing about green peppers: the Europeanisation of British food culture in post-war Britain, 1960-1975	0
‘The moral rearmament of imperialism’: the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Northern Ireland conflict, and the new world order, 1981-1994	0
Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968	0
Penguin books and political change: Britain’s meritocratic moment, 1937-1988	0
What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organised working class in British politics	0
Picturing home: domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film	0
The modernisation of the labour party	0
British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945	0
‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994	0
A folk theory of the EEC: popular euroscepticism in the early 1980s	0
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences	0
Seeking love in modern Britain: gender, dating and the rise of ‘the Single’	0
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	0
Pride in prejudice: understanding Britain’s extreme right	0
Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles	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
John Major’s politics of place: a new look at english local government reform, 1990–1997	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
Violent peace: effigies and the marking of the Armistice in Britain	0
Screening queer memory: LGBTQ pasts in contemporary film and television	0
Cooperative rule: community development in Britain’s late empire	0
Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru	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
‘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
Scottish Nationalism: history, ideology and the question of independence	0
‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935	0
Making history together: the UK’s National Health Service and the story of our lives since 1948	0