OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Twentieth Century 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain	5
Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy. By Daryl Leeworthy	5
‘What did you do to them Klaus?’: The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case and its Impact on the Scientific Community in early Cold War Britain	5
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda Maynard	4
The Puzzle of Lionel Robbins: How a Neoliberal Economist Expanded Public University Education in 1960s Britain	4
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor	4
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America	4
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales: A New Analytical Approach	3
The Abstraction of Sovereignty: The Ottoman Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Socialist Thought	3
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis	3
The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale	2
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By Peter Mandler	2
Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election	2
The Sociologist and the Subject: Two Historiographies of Post-war Social Science	2
Queer Beyond London. By Matt Cook and Alison Oram	2
The British Left and the Defence Economy: Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970–83. By Keith Mc Loughlin	2
Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One. By Lynda Mugglestone	2
Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives	1
Diversity and Entrepreneurialism: PN Review, Feminism and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973–1990	1
Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body. By Steffan Blayney	1
Harold Wilson, ‘Selsdon Man’, and the defence of social democracy in 1970s Britain	1
On Historians’ Re-Use of Social-Science Archives	1
Introduction: Marking Race in Twentieth Century British History	1
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By Geraint Thomas	1
Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer. By Harry Potter	1

The Bureaucratization of Death: The First World War, Families, and the State	1
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919. By Sakiko Kaiga	1
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By Hollie Price	1
Sexual Violence against Children in Britain since 1965: Trailing Abuse. By Nick Basannavar	1
‘No future to look forward to’, Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain	1
Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London: Microhistories of Domestic Murder. By Alexa Neale	1
The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–72	1
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS	1
‘They didnae tell you nothin’: The Failings of Sex Education, Antenatal Care, and Welfare Bureaucracies in Glasgow, c. 1970s–2000s	1
The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s	0
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900—1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations. By Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, and Ann Roberts	0
Editorial Introduction	0
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange	0
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England	0
Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s	0
Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution	0
Remaking the International Civil Service: The Legacies of British Internationalism in the United Nations Secretariat, 1945–7	0
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955. By Jim Philips, Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson	0
The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. By Kate Guthrie	0
The Flying Sikh Book: The Story of a WWI Fighter Pilot—Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik. By Stephen Barker	0
Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth. By H. Kumarasingham (ed.)	0
Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s. By Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds)	0
History and Sociology: A Twenty-First Century Rapprochement?	0
The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–39	0
The Early Years of Television and the BBC. By Jamie Medhurst	0
Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain	0
Labour’s Economic Ideology Since 1900: Developed Through Crises. By Christopher Kirkland	0
‘The Age-Old Struggle’: Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969–1998. By Jack Hepworth	0
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra	0
In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England	0
‘A World Apart’: Change in Student Attitudes during the Interwar Period, 1918–1933	0
Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization	0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022	0
Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War. By Simon Topping	0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards	0
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By Niamh Gallagher	0
Education and Opportunity during the First World War. Post-compulsory Study at the Harris Institute, Preston, 1914–18	0
‘Flying Gas Mains’: Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain	0
Correction to: Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain	0
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By Ewan Gibbs	0
The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland	0
Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National Health Service, 1948–80	0
Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman, By Jim Moher	0
The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War. By Susan R. Grayzel	0
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain’s Late Empire. By Aaron Windel	0
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone	0
The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain	0
Rethinking an Icon of Sixties Britain: The Mini and Its Place in the Post-War Motor Revolution	0

The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By Seamus Murphy	0
Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money. By Laura Clancy	0
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Community Art’ on an Inner-City Estate	0
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley	0
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation, by Daniel McNeil	0
Uniting Nations: Britons and Internationalism, 1945–1970. By Daniel Gorman	0
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By Coreen McGuire	0
Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–50	0
Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart	0
Playing the Market: Retail Investment and Speculation in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Kieran Heinemann	0
Black Political Worlds in Port Cities: Garveyism in 1920s Britain	0
‘Miserable Conflict and Confusion’: The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-22. By Erin Kate Scheopner	0
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain. By Bryce Evans	0
Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital	0
United Kingdom. By Adrian Bingham	0
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: A Response to the Commentaries on My Paper	0
Rethinking Labour’s Past. Edited by Nathan Yeowell	0
Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain. By Robert Savage	0
Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty. By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks	0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F. Edwards	0
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. Edited by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite	0
Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the Young Working Class and Urban Space in Britain, c. 1870-1939. By Laura Harrison	0
Correction to: In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England	0
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb. By Andrew Ramsey	0
Armoured Cars and Archbishops: Human Rights, Religious Pressure Groups, and Arms for El Salvador, 1977–8	0
The Greater London Council’s Homesteading Scheme: Housing Rehabilitation and the Urban Imaginary of Conservative Politics in London, 1977–81	0
The Social Scientific Turn in Modern British History	0
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990. By Stephen Kelly	0
Building the BBC-branded NGO: Overseas Development, the World Service, and the Marshall Plan of the Mind, c.1965–99	0
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2020	0
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Past & Present Book Series). By Laura Carter	0
The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain	0
Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain	0
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State. By Shaul Bar-Haim	0
Women of the Left, Patriotism, and National Identity, 1914–28	0
Class of ’37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood. By Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer	0
Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire. By Emily Baughan	0
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By Caroline Ritter	0
Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire. By Niamh Dillon	0
Searching for God in Britain and Beyond: Reading Letters to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966-1982. By David G. Reagles	0
Historians’ Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: Some Observations with Reference to the Affluent Worker Study	0
‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–75	0
The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs: An Oral History of Parliament Edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto	0
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life. By Michael Guida	0
Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher	0
Landlordism on Trial: Rent Tribunals and Resistance in Post-War London, 1946–64	0
Parties, Voters and Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Manchester: Reconnecting Politics and Society	0
The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in Inter-war Britain	0
Daughters of War: Girl Guides and Service after the First World War	0
A Political Sexual Revolution: Sexual Autonomy in the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s	0