OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural & Social 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas	4
‘Please Pardon Me for Taking the Liberty’: Poverty Letters as Negotiating Spaces in 1920s and 1930s Belfast and Dublin	4
Trust & Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire 1600-1850	3
Eat, Sleep, Lust, Repeat: Bedtime Routine, Health and Herbals in Early Modern England	2
An Intimate History of Social Mobility in Post-War Britain	2
Working in Cork: Everyday Life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917-2001	2
From Chaplin to Stalin: Proletarian Cinema and Socio-Cultural Change in Japan, 1920-1930	2
Town and Gown Prostitution, Cambridge’s Architecture of Containment of Sexual Deviance	2
Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture	2
‘The Wild West of England’: Enclosure, Stag-Hunting, and the Creation of New Popular Perceptions of Exmoor in the Nineteenth Century	2
Alcohol in the Early Modern World: A Cultural History	2
Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932	2
Benedictus’ Summer’s Night Dream: The Journey of a Jew from Barcelona to Chios (1391–1404)	1
‘From This Common Collaboration’: Married Women and Economic Enterprise in Quebec Under the British Regime, c.1763-1820	1
A Franciscan Monetary Theory? Alexander Bonini and the Forms of Money at the End of the Middle Ages	1
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945	1
Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France	1
A British Rome in India: Calcutta – Capital for an Empire	1
Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500	1
Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900	1
Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe	1
Race, Religion and the Lascar’s Body in British Port Cities, C.1815–1914	1
Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households and the Unmarried	1
'Share the Pleasures with the Public': Evolution of Urban Landscapes in Nanjing in Song Dynasty China (976–1279)	1
The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland	1

Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962 *Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962*	1
Pin-Swallowing and Self-Destruction in Early Modern British and Irish Supernatural Narratives	1
Lodgers, Landlords and Landladies in Georgian London	1
‘How to Live Splendidly’: Strategies Towards Accumulation of Wealth in fifteenth-century Cyprus	1
Leaving the Peasant Behind: The Process and Experience of Social Elevation in Late 18th-Century Sweden	1
Entitlement and Complaint: Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in post-Revolutionary France	0
Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c.1870-1920	0
Making Officers Out of Gentlemen: Military Institution-Building in India, C. 1900-1960	0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion	0
‘To Help Him Recover from His Losses’: Royal Begging Licences in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760s-1780s	0
Dudes, Decadence, and Degeneracy: Criminalisation of Absinthe in the United States	0
Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power: Projections and Perceptions of France in Britain, c.1880-1944	0
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages	0
The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660-1800	0
Dunking bizcochos : Sociability and the Material Culture of Chocolate in Eighteenth-Century Spain	0
The American Robot: A Cultural History	0
The Recognition of Urban Citizenship: The Early Social Integration of Returned Educated Youth in China	0
Saving the People’s Forest: Open Spaces, Enclosure and Popular Politics in Mid-Victorian London	0
Not Invisible, Not Silent, Not Nameless: Dja Dja Wurrung Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Goldfields Society in Central Victoria, Australia	0
Civic Culture at the Cinema: Local Public Life and Cinemagoing in Inter-War Britain	0
Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers	0
Roadside Media: Roadside Crash Shrines as Platforms for Communicating Across Time, Space, and Mortality in the Early 2000s United States	0
The Material Worlds of Singlewomen Revealed Through Their Wills from the Diocese of Norwich 1604–1686	0
Respectable Men Seeking Odious Work in the Late Nineteenth Century	0
Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star *Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Centur*	0
The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire	0
Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century	0
Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640	0
The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939	0
Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England	0
Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition	0
Narratives of Bankruptcy, Failure, and Decline in the Court of Chancery, 1678-1750	0
Strangled Women: Popular Culture, ‘Conservative Modernity’ and Erotic Violence in Britain, c.1890–1950	0
A Cultural History of School Uniform	0
Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in the English Reformations	0
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt	0
Military Piping in British Malaya: Cultural Transfer and Colonial Defence Traditions, 1840–1971	0
Globalising Housework: Domesticating Labour in Middle-Class London Homes, 1850-1914	0
Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation: Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19 ^th Century	0
Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918	0
Mining in Sicily: Slavery, Humanitarian Rhetoric and Global Network	0
Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England: The Three Wives of Ralph Rishton	0
Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain	0
Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830	0
London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s	0
English Conceptualisations of ‘Public’ Libraries, c. 1690s–1710s	0
Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain	0
Opium’s Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs	0
‘As Man and Wyfe Ought to Doe’: Reconsidering Marital Separation in Early Modern England	0
The Pilgrim and the Peas and Pilgrimage by Rail: Defining acceptable pilgrimage practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain	0

Crying in the Womb: Emotions, Sound, and Personhood in Early Modern England	0
The pedagogical and social value of public history and work integrated learning: a case study from Australia	0
Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell	0
Cartooning Collaboration: Cultural Production and the Image of Rural North China Under Japanese Occupation	0
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870-2008	0
‘Noisy, Despotic, Fascinating’: Siamese Cats and Emotional and Domestic Life in Twentieth-Century Britain	0
The Redeemed Life of Lena Clark, Christian Missionary in the Congo Free State	0
Blood Waters: War, Disease, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean	0
Picturing Russian Empire	0
Playing the Market: Retail Investment and Speculation in Twentieth-Century Britain	0
Love Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II *Love Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II*	0
London’s ‘Mafeking Fever’ Reconsidered: Popular Entertainments and Wartime News Culture in May 1900	0
Introduction: Cultural Representations of Intoxication	0
Home Visiting, Domestic Observation, and the Middle-Class Gaze in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son	0
Advertising and Consumer Culture in Ireland, 1922-1962: Buy Irish	0
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House	0
Birkenhead’s Mere Hall Indian Seamen’s Home: Labour and Religious Identity for Muslim Seamen in 1940s Britain	0
The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe	0
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany	0
Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin	0
Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800	0
Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century	0
Inheriting Empire, Wealth, and Art: The Baring Family and London’s National Gallery in the Nineteenth Century	0
Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World: Perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Periods	0
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club	0
The Business of Emotions in Modern History	0
Interwar London After Dark in British Popular Culture,	0
The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain	0
‘The Worst Invention Ever’: The Number Lottery and its Critics during the Press Freedom Period in Denmark-Norway, 1770-1773	0
Reverberations of Revolution: Sound, Politics and Religious Enthusiasm in the 1790s	0
Religion and the Rise of Sport in England	0
End of Empire Migration as Evacuation and Individual Flight: The Far North of the Japanese Empire, 1945-1947	0
The Discourse Order of the Image of Women in Iranian Movie Posters in the 1960s and 1970s	0
Power and Pleasure: Court Life under King John, 1199-1216	0
Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England *Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England*	0
Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960	0
Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany	0
Mapping Principal Navigations in the Levant	0
Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700 *Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700* , by K. J. Kess	0
Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World	0
Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History	0
Keats, Letters, Grief, and Delay, 1818-1820	0
Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain since 1965: Trailing Abuse	0
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland from the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising	0
Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence: Masculinities in Premodern Europe	0
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business	0
British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 *British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750* , by Bernard Capp, Oxford, Oxford Univer	0
Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700	0
Permission to Screen? American Sexual Hygiene Pictures, British Censorship and Local Film Culture, 1919–1950	0
Personal Politics in the Postwar World: Western Diplomacy Behind the Scenes *Personal Politics in the Postwar World: Western Diplomacy Behind the Scenes*	0
Afterword: Biography and Humanitarianism	0
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain 1918-1979	0
Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War	0
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life , 1934–39	0
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life	0
British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema: Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone	0
‘One of us’: Class and Conscientious Objection in Britain During the Second World War	0
By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England	0
Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain	0
Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage	0
Doll Play and the Performance of Girlhood in fin-de-siècle Spain	0
‘The perfection of his taste’: Ralph Bernal, collecting and slave-ownership in nineteenth-century Britain	0
John Harrison, Envoy to Morocco: Barbary and the Downfall of Babylon	0
Sexuality in Modern German History	0
Dealing with Mobility: Guilds and Tramping Journeymen in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavia	0
Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy	0
Dreaming at the End of Empire: The Baltic Dreamscape of Jakob Vaarask, 1885-1917	0
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives	0
Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America	0
Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen’s Land	0
Finding a Place Within Empire: The Seamen’s Spiritual Welfare Movement in Nineteenth-Century Newcastle, N.S.W	0
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity	0
‘Comme Nostre Frere’: Knightly Ritual Brotherhood Reconsidered	0
The Leafy Tree: The Lindsay Family and Siblinghood in Australia	0
Objects of Affection? Materialising Courtship, Love and Sex in Ireland, C.1800-1830	0
The Value of Work Since the 18 ^th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory	0
Illegitimacy: Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 *Illegitimacy: Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834* , by Kate Gibson, Oxford,	0
Grateful fresh advices and random dark relations: Maghrebi news and experiences in English expatriate letters, 1660-1710	0
Inventing Elvis: An American Icon in a Cold War World	0
Russian Food Since 1800: Empire at Table	0

‘Shepherdesses in the Bush!’: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 ^th Century	0
In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony	0
Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War *Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections fr*	0
Communicating Beyond Death: Examining Suicide Letters from England (1757–1849) and Brazil (1920–1929)	0
The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization	0
Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars	0
The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century: The Pan American Ideal	0
A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany	0
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society *Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal S*	0
Sounding Feminine: Women’s Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780–1850	0
Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659 *Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1*	0
Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris	0
Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain,	0
The Maker of Pedigrees: Jakob Wilhelm Imhoff and the Meanings of Genealogy in Early Modern Europe	0
Sacred and Cursed Bodies: The Necropolitics in the Suharto Regime’s Politics of Memory	0
‘Primitive, Antique, and Modern’: An Exhibition of Music in Interwar Sydney and the ‘Australian’ Music Question	0
Modern Murders: The Turn-of-the-Century’s Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder, 1880–1914	0
Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia	0
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century	0
Quakers in the British Atlantic World c.1660-1800	0
Carnival Relocated? Popular Culture and the Carnivalesque in Colonial Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)	0
Unfairness at the Funfair: The French Syndicate for Travelling Showpeople in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
Dying for France: Experiencing and Representing the Soldier’s Death, 1500–2000	0
Champagne in Britain, 1800–1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury *Champagne in Britain, 1800–1914: How the British Transformed a*	0
Introduction: Humanitarianism and Biography	0
Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance	0
‘Where the Church had refused to perform its duty the women themselves came forward’: the Prayer Campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1913-1914	0
Knowing One’s Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries *Knowing One’s Place: Community and Cl*	0
Spectres Across the Atlantic, c.1820-1940: Communicating with the Dead Over Space and Time	0
Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	0
The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668-1813: Courting the Public	0
Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British Route to the East in the Age of Sail	0
Male Suicide and Masculinity in 19^th-Century Britain: Stories of Destruction	0
A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918	0
‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane	0
Absent Sailor, Orphan Child: Seafarers’ Orphanages and the Construction of the Maritime Family, C. 1874–1930	0
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789,	0
Designing Shakespeare: Tibor Reich and the 1964 Shakespeare Quatercentenary	0
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History of Gambling	0
The Kaiser, Hitler and the Jewish Department Store: The Reich’s Retailer	0
An Introduction to Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives	0
Distant Communications: Beyond Death	0
Honour, Harmony and the King of Outspokenness : The Use of Stage Plays and Festive Culture in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Coastal Communities	0
Almshouses, Old Age and the Welfare State in Modern Britain	0
Museum of Consumption: The Archives of Mass Culture in Argentina (1880-1930)	0
New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain	0
Pious Pleasure? Church-Based Leisure in a Working-Class Community, East Oxford 1870–1914	0
‘Of no sort of use’?: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Family Archive in Eighteenth Century England	0
All in the Same Boat? Anglicans, Catholics, and the Royal Navy in the Era of the First World War	0
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire	0
Revolutionising Politics: Culture and Conflict in England, 1620-60	0
Numeracy and Popular Culture: Cocker’s Arithmetick and the Market for Cheap Arithmetical Books, 1678–1787	0
Religion and Life Cycles in Early Modern England	0
Reinventing Self-Cultivation: The Body, Race and the Evolutionary Dream in Modern China	0
Testing the ”participatory state” in A Yorkshire Tragedy (c. 1605-8)	0
Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe, 1500–1900	0
Religion, Disease and Cultural Difference on the Voyage from Britain to the South Pacific in the Early Nineteenth Century	0
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibitions	0
The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 *The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945*	0
‘Propaganda Against the Country’: British Newspapers in 1950s Ireland	0
The Practical Renaissance: Information Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern England *The Practical Renaissance: Information Culture and the Quest for Kno*	0
Hiding in Plain Sight: Indigenous Repression and Resistance in Photographs of the 1901 Royal Tour of Canada	0
The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking: Health, Pleasure, and Class in Britain, 1870-1918	0
The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919–1956: Public Relations, Collaboration and Control	0
‘Didactic’ or ‘Obscene’?: Personal Accounts of Alcoholism in Contemporary Irish Writing	0
Imperial Heartland: Immigration, Working-Class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947	0
‘Almost to Candy Height:’ Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Kitchen, 1700-1850	0
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century *Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century* , by Bob Harris, Cambridge, Camb	0
Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England	0
Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People, 1939-1945	0
Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic	0
Lives and Experience in Gypsy Songs, c.1700-2020	0
‘To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China	0
Behind the Seams: Women, Fashion and Work in 19th-Century France	0
The Body Flâneur: Body-Biased Gaze and Ocular Inspections of Women’s Bodies in Swedish Serial Literature, 1850–1890	0
London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914	0
Trials of the Self: Murder, Mayhem and the Remaking of the Mind, 1750–1830	0
The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism	0
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London	0
America in Italian Culture: The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861–1943	0
Mariners: Race, Religion and Empire. Special Issue: Introduction	0
Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England	0
Constructing a Humanitarian Self: Emily Hobhouse’s Auto/Biographical Traces, 1899-1926	0
Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5	0
‘Wan and Wistful Little waifs’: Settler Child Welfare Work in Shanghai, c. 1890–1939	0
The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music *The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music*	0
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c.1870-1939	0
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire	0
Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809-48	0
The Drinking Table as Battlefield: Warfare Analogies and Masculine Emotions in Early Modern Dutch Drinking Songs and Wager Cups	0
Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology *Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology*	0
Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England: Cure, Redemption and Rehabilitation	0
The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality	0
Pro Bono Publico: Publicans, Punch, and Print in Eighteenth-Century London	0