OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Northern 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw’s Legend in the Later Middle Ages	1
PETER ROEBUCK, Cattle Droving: Scotland & Ireland through Cumbria to the South	1
The Lordship of Middleham in 1465–6 and 1473–4	1
MICHAEL JONES, JULIA BARROW, DAVID CROOK and TREVOR FOULDS (eds.), The White Book (Liber Albus) of Southwell	1
‘My Charges About the Highways’: Constables and Infrastructure in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire	1
‘All this for the Service of the King’: Robert Wawayn and the Municipal Disturbances in Scarborough, 1307–1327	1
SARAH BROWN, SARAH REES-JONES AND TIM AYES (eds), York, Art, Architecture and Archaeology, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 42. (Oxford:Routledge, 2021. 264 pp. £120 H	1
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
Artisanal Skills, Watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution: Prescot and Beyond	0
The Coeling: Narrative and Identity in North Britain and Wales AD 580–950	0
RICHARD D. WRAGG, The guild book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition	0
THE BELLICOSE BISHOP Of THE BATTLE OF NEVILLE’S CROSS, 1346	0
GREG FINCH, The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty's Rise, Crisis and Redemption	0
GEORGE REDMONDS (compiler), ALEXANDRA MEDCALF (ed.), The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary: A Glossary of Yorkshire Words, 1120–c.1900, The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Records Society, Recor	0
DAVID CROOK, Robin Hood: Legend and Reality	0
Sunderland’s Poor Law Nurses and the Professionalisation of Nursing: 1834–1900	0
Mapping Dissent: Conscientious Objectors in Northern England during the First World War	0
A Community of Consent: Conscientious Objectors on the North Yorkshire Moors and the North East Coast During the First World War	0
The Rise and Fall of Westmorland’s ‘County’ Racecourse: Kendal Races 1820–1834	0
JEREMY GREGORY (ed.), Manchester Cathedral: A History of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the Present	0
MATT COOK and ALISON ORAM, Queer Beyond London	0
Malcolm Chase (1957–2020)	0
RICHARD TURNER, Made in Lancashire: A Collective Biography of Assisted Migrants from Lancashire to Victoria 1852–1853	0
John Dalton’s Debt to John Gough, the ‘Blind Philosopher’ of Kendal	0
ANNE F. SUTTON, The King’s Work: The Defence of the North under the Yorkist Kings, 1471-85 (Donington: Richard III and Yorkist History Trust in association with Shaun Tyas, 2021. £30. 540 pages. ISBN:	0

ALAN BROOKE, Nature’s Missionary: Seth Lister Mosley – Naturalist, Museum Curator and Mystic 1848–1929 (Huddersfield: Huddersfield Local History Society, 2022. £15 [paperback]. 264 pages [Inc.	0
The Voice of the ‘Shoeless, Shirtless and Shameless’: Community Radicalism in the West Riding, 1829 to 1839	0
DAVID CROUCH (ed.), Howden: Town and Liberty. The Victoria County History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of York: East Riding	0
Textiles as an Applied Science at the University of Leeds, 1904 to 1979	0
FIONA EDMONDS, Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age	0
On the Northern Provenance of Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.7.5	0
JOSEPH M. FEWSTER, The Keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne 1638–1852	0
An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds	0
The Life and Letters of Lady Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland	0
TERENCE DOOLEY and CHRISTOPHER RIDGEWAY (eds), Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain: Welcome and Unwelcome	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
PETER L. LARSON, Rethinking the Great Transition: Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349–1660	0
The Rise and Fall of Cullercoats as a Coal Exporting Port in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	0
The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698–1706: ‘Favour’d with the Lord’s Wonders’	0
ADRIAN ALLAN, Greenbank House and the University of Liverpool: A History	0
THE LATIN PROJECT, Before the Merchant Adventurers: Building the Hall. Account Book of the Fraternity of Jesus and Mary, York, 1357–69	0
Essay Prize Announcement	0
PHILIP RAHTZ and LORNA WATTS, St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire. Archaeological Investigations and Historical Context	0
PETER BREARS, Traditional Food in the South Pennines	0
L. R. POOS, Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England: the three wives of Ralph Rishton	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2025	0
GUY HINTON, War Commemoration and Civic Culture in the North East of England, 1854–1914	0
A GLOBAL NORTH: TRANSFERS, EXCHANGES and TRANSNATIONAL LINKS BETWEEN VICTORIA AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE, 1880–1914	0
ANDREW BREEZE, British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh	0
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland	0
Reasserting Local Politics: The East Riding ‘War Ag’ during the Second World War	0
Spellings of Brunanburh Revisited	0
Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: The Archbishops of York and Their Records	0
RICHARD SHARPE (Ed.), with contributions by JANET BURTON, MICHAEL GULLICK and NICHOLAS KARN, Foundation Documents from St Mary’s Abbey, York: 1085–1137, Surtees Society Publications, Vol. CCXXV	0
ALUN C. DAVIES, The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930	0
Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019-2022, Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall	0
Correction	0
War Memorials and Culture Wars in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sunderland	0
LESLEY TAYLOR and SHIRLEY LEVON, John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation, with the Transcription of John Smeaton's Journal 1760–1763 Detailing the Day-to-Day Work on the Navigation	0
MICHAEL POWELL and TERRY WYKE, (eds.), A Bread and Cheese Bookseller: The Recollections of James Weatherley of Manchester c.1790–1850	0
‘TO IMPERISHABLE MEMORY’: LANCASTER’S CRIMEAN WAR MONUMENT, c.1855–1862	0
Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize Announcement	0
The Impact of the Anglo-Scottish Wars (1286–1347) upon Institutional Memories in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Monastic Chronicles and Cartularies of Furness and Byland	0
Rethinking Ripon: Cuthbert’s Tonsure and Northumbrian Ecclesiastical Geography	0
Liverpool: A Memoir of Words	0
JON MEE, Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution	0
Cheesemaking in Cheshire 1550–1750	0
JAMES MOORE, High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780–1914	0
Thomas Denton’s Perambulation: Two Counties, Three Kingdoms, and Four Nations History?	0
JOHN BAXTER AND JOSEPH STANLEY, ‘The Time Draws Nigh, It Is Close at Hand’: The Road to Insurrection in the Industrial West Riding 1819–1820	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
JOANNA E. TAYLOR and IAN N. GREGORY, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text Analysis	0
‘The Dignity that May Clothe a Tradesman’s Life’: Joseph Mayer and Antiquarian Patronage in Nineteenth-Century England	0
The Medieval Stained Glass of West Yorkshire	0

NEIL MURPHY, Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–24 NEIL MURPHY, Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–24 (Wood	0
W. TRENT FOLEY, Bede and the Beginnings of English Racism	0
MATEUSZ FAFINSKI, Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone	0
REGINALD OF DURHAM, The Life and Miracles of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale,	0
PETER DARBY and MÁIRÍN MACCARRON (eds), Bede the Scholar	0
RICHARD SHAW, How, When and Why Did Bede Write His Ecclesiastical History?	0
NIGEL SMITH, The Medieval Park of Erringden	0
Fighting for Hugh: The Wardship of ‘Younge Calueley’ of Lea Hall, Cheshire, 1620	0
PETER BOUGHTON and IAN DUNN, George Cuitt (1779–1854) – ‘England’s Piranesi’: His Life and Work and a Catalogue Raisonné of His Etchings	0
FURTHER LIGHT on LANCASTER’S LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS	0
New Horizons and New Challenges: Developments in the Modern Languages in the University of Leeds, 1914–18	0
SIMON YOUNG, The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect	0
New Evidence of Justice-Giving by the Early Tudor Council of the North, 1540–43*	0
JEREMY BRADLEY and STEPHEN ROWLAND, Brothers Minor: Lancashire’s Lost Franciscans Investigations at Preston Friary, 1991 and 2007	0
JONATHAN OATES, Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746	0
MARTIN HEWITT, Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City: The Visiting Mode in Manchester 1832–1914	0
DAVID JEFFERY, Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945	0
Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees	0
Sleech Salt Making from the Solway to the Mersey in the Medieval and Early-Modern Period	0
D. TURNBULL AND L. WICKHAM, Thomas White (c. 1736–1811): Redesigning the Northern British Landscape	0
BRIAN BARBER, Transcripts and Observations Touching the Manor of Wakefield in the County of York and Wakefield Manorial Records: A Short Guide	0
Fire and Sword at Little Busby: Sir Nicholas Meynil and the Murder of William Mowbray	0
ANNE CURRY, Henry V and the Earldom of Chester, 1399–1422	0
SOPHIE VASSET, Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature	0
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution	0
KATE GILES, The Wall Paintings of Pickering Church: Their Discovery, Restoration and Meaning	0
MICHAEL PEARSON AND IAN D. HODKINSON (eds), The Dark Path to Knowledge: The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757–1825), ‘Blind Philosopher’ and Polymath	0
ANTHONY SILSON, Leeds Lakes and Ponds	0
J.A. HILTON, The Cockpit of Conscience: Society, Politics, and Religion in Stuart Lancashire, 1603–1714	0
The Coroner and the Medical Profession in Victorian Newcastle Upon Tyne ‘… Antagonism and Offence Towards the Medical Profession Such as has Rarely Been Exhibited.’	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2023	0
The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase	0
‘Drops in the Ocean’: The Politics and Practice of Policing the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	0
DAVID CROUCH (ed.), The Metham Family Cartulary: Reconstructed from Antiquarian Transcripts	0
R. W. Hoyle (Ed.), Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield Region in Memory of David Hey	0
The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall from 1633 to 1688	0
J.P.T. SLEVIN (ed.), L. LOCKYER (trans.), The History of Alfred of Beverley	0
Knowing One’s Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	0
GWILYM DODD AND CRAIG TAYLOR (Eds.), Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England. Essays in Honour of William Mark Ormrod	0
A Note on Four Early York Account Rolls in the Bodleian Library, Oxford	0
Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021: Structures, Their Uses and Afterlives	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
Gordon Forster Essay Prize	0
STEVE BOARDMAN and DAVID DITCHBURN (eds), Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant , St Andrews Studies in Scottish Histo	0
JO BYRNE, Beyond Trawlertown: Memory, Life and Legacy in the Wake of the Cod Wars	0
BILL LANCASTER, The Making of the Modern World: The History of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers	0
Editorial	0
JANE GRENVILLE and NIKOLAUS PEVSNER, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding	0
Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500	0
Essay Prize Announcement	0
JEAN TURNBULL, The Impact of Motor Transport on Westmorland c.1900–1939	0
THE SASH ON THE MERSEY: THE ORANGE ORDER in LIVERPOOL 1819–1982	0
Protest, Paternalism and Living Standards in the Yorkshire Coalfield 1786–1801	0
M. BAZLEY (ed.), An Edition of the Accounts of the Manor of Bickley, Cheshire, 1395–1465	0
DAVID M. GEORGE, The Radical Campaigns of John Baxter Langley: A Keen and Courageous Reformer (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2021. £75. 368 pages. ISBN: 978-1-905816-47-7).	0
DAVID BRAZENDALE and MARK TOWSEY (eds.), The First Minute Book of the Liverpool Athenaeum, 1797–1809	0
MÁIRÍN MACCARRON, Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World	0
STEPHEN CATTERALL and KEITH GILDART, Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul	0
THOMAS STEEL (Ed.), Loyalty and Levy: West Derby Hundred in Lancashire Seen in the Succession Act Oath Roll of 1534 and the Lay Subsidy Returns of 1545	0
DAVID ASQUITH and CHRISTOPHER J. WATSON (eds.), Wakefield Court Roll 1439–40 and Accounts 1265–66	0
Announcement	0
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38	0
Wortley Forge: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Ironworks	0
R. VINCENT, Colne Valley: A History of a Pennine Landscape	0
Sick or Healthy? The Urban North Between the Wars	0
CHARLES C. ROZIER, Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert c. 700–1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham	0
Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War	0
JENNI HYDE (ed.), John Balshaw’s Jigge: Revelry and Royalism in Restoration Lancashire	0
The Military Estate in the North of England 1790 to 1914 – Shaped by Changing Military Priorities	0
Hemp Cultivation and Processing in North-West England	0
PETER COLLINGE and LOUISE FALCINI (eds), Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834	0
Sir Archibald Salvidge and the Failed Realignment of British Politics, 1918–1922	0
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925–1955	0
Policemen and Their Moustaches: (Self-)Fashioning Professional Identity in Nineteenth Century Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	0
Journeys in Industrious England and Writings Personal and Topographical	0
Work and Life in the Early Industrial City: Social Economy of Cotton Production, Carlisle, 1838–1861*	0
JONATHAN MCGOVERN, The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration	0