Social History

Papers
(The TQCC of 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A double-edged sword: the impact of military service on ‘zigenare’ and ‘tattare’ in Finland, c.1743–180915
Apprentice migration to London from Wales, 1600–18005
Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 Artisans Abroad: British migrant workers in industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 , by Fabrice 4
Working in Cork: everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina plant, 1917–20013
Negotiating exclusion in early modern England, 1550–18003
Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire3
The Last Witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition3
A woman with a pillow on her belly: semi-legal adoption practices in Soviet Lithuania2
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria2
How to quantify the poor, and why? Transnational movements and the creation of a poverty line in France and Europe (1960s–1970s)2
The Shadow of the Mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain2
The social origins of democracy in Sweden: the role of agrarian politics2
Social History Book Club: Lyonel Trouillot, Antoine of Gommiers1
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: movement, gender, biological time and the city1
Making space: towards a spatial history of modernity in caste-societies1
Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean1
Trusting the postman: prosecuting theft and managing sickness in the British Post Office, c.1860–19101
The public health question and mortuary politics in colonial Ghana1
Intimate Subjects: touch and tangibility in Britain’s cerebral age1
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–19451
A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and church–state power in Ireland A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and church–state power in Ireland , edited by Mark Coen, 1
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: a history for the present1
Silence, distance and neutrality: the politics of emotional distress during the Northern Irish troubles1
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: residential childcare, 1958–911
Strangers Within: the rise and fall of the New Christian trading elite1
Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century0
‘[O]ne of the year’s difficult problems’: the UK cinema industry and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19190
The collapse of a polity, the birth of states: municipal debt, local conflicts and state formation in the former Crown of Aragon (1740–1770)0
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–640
Liquid Empire: water and power in the colonial world0
Personal Politics in the Postwar World: Western diplomacy behind the scenes0
Under the landlord’s thumb: municipalities and local elites in Sweden 1862–19000
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World , edited by Stephen H. Whiteman, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylv0
Selling Ancestry: family directories and the commodification of genealogy in eighteenth century Britain0
Reimagining Illness: Women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain0
The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution0
Social History Book Club: Jo Baker, Longbourn0
Poverty, old age and outdoor relief in late-Victorian England0
Marx and the many lives of Marxism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries0
Radegund: the trials and triumphs of a Merovingian queen Radegund: the trials and triumphs of a Merovingian queen , by E.T. Dailey, Women in Antiquity, Oxford, Oxford Un0
The politics of transnational student mobility: youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–19660
‘Hairy honours of their chins’: whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain0
Knots: or the violence of desire in Renaissance Florence Knots: or the violence of desire in Renaissance Florence , by Emanuele Lugli, Chicago and London, The University0
All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war0
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: conviction and career , by Annemarie McAl0
Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain Participant Observers: anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of so0
Power and Pleasure: court life under King John, 1199–12160
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility: emotions and experiences of the deportable in Mandate Palestine0
‘O! awa wi sic sangs as aft hae been sung’: radical songwriting and the rethinking of Chartism0
How the old workhouse system became the new workhouse system: a case study of Hampshire in the 1830s0
Correction0
Histories of People and Landscape: essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey0
Announcement: John Seed0
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–19000
Arbeit, Dienst und Führung. Der Nationalsozialismus und sein Erbe [Labour, Service and Leadership: National socialism and its legacy]0
Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters Penning Poison: a history of anonymous letters , by Emily Cockayne, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 299 pp., £20.000
The social history of a medieval fish weir, c. 600–20200
Living conditions and social response in times of apocalypse: the inflationary cycle of the First World War in Catalonia0
Emotional baggage: how objects created family across the nineteenth-century British empire0
Not going out: television’s impacts on Britain’s commercial entertainment industries and popular leisure during the 1950s0
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: long-distance pilgrimage in Northwest Europe0
Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages0
How did the belief in meritocracy spread? Working-class and lower middle-class attitudes towards education in German-speaking Central Europe, c.1850–19600
Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–20200
Injustice, deindustrialisation and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland0
Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century and Rethinking Atlantic Empire: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s histories of nineteenth-century Spain and the Antille0
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons0
Skills of the unskilled: working with livestock in medieval Northern Europe0
Emotional economies of pleasure among the gentry of eighteenth-century England0
‘Die Mauer war doch richtig!’ Warum so viele DDR-Bürger den Mauerbau widerstandslos hinnahmen0
The material culture of rebellion in Kent, 1450–14510
Freeman’s Challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit Freeman’s Challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit , by Robi0
The Modern British Data State, 1945–20000
Working in Greece and Turkey: a comparative labour history from empires to nation-states, 1840–19400
Multicultural Britain: a people’s history0
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, internationalism, and empire0
The Story of Work: A new history of humankind0
‘Their proper place’: women, work and the marriage bar in independent Ireland, c. 1924–19730
People of the River: lost worlds of early Australia0
Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain Waiting on Empire: a history of Indian travelling Ayahs in Britain , by Arunima Datta, Oxford, Oxford 0
Maladies of Empire: How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine0
Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 320 0
Fostering loyalty to the Habsburg cause: Muslim students from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the University of Vienna 1899–19110
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism0
Danish peasants destroying paperwork, 1438–14410
‘Unity in struggle is our strength’: Sheffield University’s Overseas Students’ Bureau and international activism at a local level0
The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm (c. 1615–1680) , ed. by Madeleine Gray, Tony Hopkins and Alun Wi0
Deviance, marginality and the Highland bandit in seventeenth-century Scotland0
The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 The Virginia Venture: American colonization and English society, 1580–1660 , by Misha Ewen, Ph0
Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy Madness on Trial: a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy , by James E. Moran, 0
Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810–670
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–13850
Frontiers of Feminism: Movements and influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–800
Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France0
Coping with a post-war world: Protestant student internationalism and humanitarian work in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1920s0
Social History Book Club: White Houses0
Solving placement problems: local decision-making and the Finnish correctional labour facility system c.1920–19800
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war , by Deborah Cohen, L0
Migrant Citizenship: race, rights, and reform in the US farm labor camp program0
An uneven internationalism? West German youth and organised travel to Israel, c.1958–c.19670
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s0
State socialist women’s organizations within Yugoslav factories: a case study of local activism in the Duga Resa cotton mill0
Victims and Criminal Justice: a history Victims and Criminal Justice: a history , by Pam Cox, Robert Shoemaker and Heather Shore, Oxford, Clarendon Studies in Criminolog0
A broad battle: public opinion and the 1945–1946 General Motors strike0
Afterlives of War: a descendants’ history0
Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 ce , by 0
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: an introduction0
The household, the citizen and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages0
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England0
From plague to cholera: public health and the urban poor in nineteenth-century Italy0
We Are the Land: a history of Native California0
Paternalism and the politics of ‘toll corn’ in early modern England0
The commercialisation of Bengali food: insights into caste, class and commensality in colonial Bengal0
Our lodging house in the middle of the street: a socio-spatial analysis of three cohorts of lodging housekeepers, Antwerp 1850–18800
Peasant proprietors, social mobility and risk aversion in the early Middle Ages: an Iberian case study0
Caritas: neighbourly love and the early modern self0
New Review Editor0
Collective Action and Political Transformation: the entangled experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe0
The persecution of minorities: Majorcan Jewish converts in the last third of the seventeenth century0
European Modernity and the Passionate South: gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century0
British Pop Archive, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester0
An Infinite History: the story of a family in France over three centuries0
Insatiable City: food and race in New Orleans0
The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II The Queerness of Home: gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War 0
The farce of the commons? Corporate rights, political wrongs and common-pool resources in English towns, 1835–18700
Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity Sex Lives: intimate infrastructures in early modernity , by Joseph Gamble, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvani0
Kinship, conflict and transnational coordination: the Siemens family’s globalisation strategies in the nineteenth century0
Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India Disparate Remedies: making medicines in modern India , by Nandini Bhattacharya, Montreal and Kingston, McGill Queen’0
A world of goods? Europe, empire and consumer goods in England, c. 1670–18200
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–18500
Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria0
The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain0
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’0
Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud0
Asylum between Nations: refugees in a revolutionary era0
Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–1991: a different history0
Graphic News: How sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism0
The Newsmongers: a history of tabloid journalism0
Many Mouths: the politics of food in Britain from the workhouse to the welfare state0
Patricians, plebeians and parishioners: parish elections and social conflict in eighteenth-century Chelsea0
Fur: a sensitive history Fur: a sensitive history , by Jonathan Faiers, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020, 240 pp., £40.00/$60.00 (hardcover), ISBN-13: 90
How the Country House Became English0
Dogopolis: How dogs and humans made modern New York, London, and Paris0
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 , by Ben Bethell, London, Routledge, 2022, 240 pp., £104.00/$136.00 (ha0
Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age0
German Angst: fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany0
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s twentieth century0
The Price of Misfortune: rights and wrongs in indebted America0
Vigilance and tax fraud in early modern Catalonia0
Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia0
LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives LGBT Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives , by Simon Joyce, Oxfor0
Smart money and permanent injury: occupational health in early modern English capitalism, 1590–18030
Urban governance, public health and the impact of plague on everyday life in Cambridge, 1625–16300
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 , by Simon Devereaux, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 0
Our NHS: a history of Britain’s best-loved institution Our NHS: a history of Britain’s best-loved institution , by Andrew Seaton, New Haven and London, Yale University P0
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–19710
‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war0
Embodied Histories: new womanhood in Vienna, 1894–19340
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