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Who has been using the archives?

The Modern Records Centre supports academic and non-academic research at many different levels. The wide range of subjects which have been researched using our collections can be seen, in part, through the publications which reference or acknowledge documents or online resources at the MRC. Lists of citations are available for the following years.

Most of the citations included in these lists have been found through Google Scholar. If you know of a publication that we may have missed, please let us know.

Books:

E Colpus, University of Southampton

Claiming and Curating Experiential Expertise at the Children's Telephone Helpline, Childline UK, 1986-2006. Beaumont, C., Colpus, E., Davidson, R. (eds) Everyday Welfare in Modern British History.

S Crook

Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare Within British Universities in the Mid-Twentieth-Century. Beaumont, C., Colpus, E., Davidson, R. (eds) Everyday Welfare in Modern British History.

Mark J Crowley, David Eccles Business School

The China Campaign Committee in Britain. 'Boycotts and the Effort to Help the Chinese Population, 1938–45. The Routledge Economic History of War.

Edited by Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, Price Fishback.

Sam Dolbear

'Gay Roses' in Reading Roses in Constellation. Edited by Rachel Pafe and Mimi Howard. Pseudo Press.

Charlie McGuire

Steelworkers in struggle: An oral history of the 1980 national steel strike.

Florence Mok and Fung Chi Keung Charles (eds.)

A new documentary history of Hong Kong 1945-1997.

S Smedley, University of Southampton

Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Economic and Monetary Union. British Public Opinion and Party Policy Towards European Integration, 1973–2016.

Valeria Zanier

Counterbalancing low expectations with high hopes: Integrating global technology and pre-1949 legacy in China's motor vehicle industry in the 1950s. Economic Alliance, Economic Split: Technology Transfers, Trade and Models of Industrialization between China and Soviet Eastern Europe in the Early Cold War.

Articles:

Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud

The rise and fall of private advocacy forums from 1945 to the twenty-first century. Socio-Economic Review, 1-25.

Tara Bissett, University of Waterloo

Doing time: Institutional rhythms of women's industrial reformatories (1850-1970). Heritage cities and exclusion, ADH Journal.

Xuebing Cao & Roger Seifert

The British Labour Movement and the Strikes in Hong Kong 1925/6 and Trinidad 1937: Worlds Apart and Worlds Together. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Kelly-Ann Couzens

[M]ercy is justice…and should not be denied’: Lord Dawson, the British medico-legal community, and the Infanticide Act, 1938. Medical History, 1–21.

Sonali Dhanpal

Housing Empire's Subjects: Moral Panics at the “End of Empire” and Race in the British Welfare State. Grey Room, 102-127.

Pete Dorey and Sam Warner

he Conservative Party and the closed shop: inherent contradictions, non-compliance and the failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971. Contemporary British History, 1–38.

Jeremy Goh, University of Warwick

Digitised Sources, Materiality and “Interim Archives”: Archive Encounters in Asia and the United Kingdom. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1–13.

Paul Griffin and Jane Holgate

Trade unions and labour market inactivity: a continuing sense of solidarity and belonging. European Review of Labour and Research.

Charlie McGuire

‘You’ll do what MacGregor couldn’t, you’ll shut the ‘Craig’: steelworkers, the NUM and the 1984–85 miners’ strike. Contemporary British History.

Kim Christian Priemel, University of Oslo

The Ghosts of Fleet Street: What Did Not Working Mean in the British Printing Industry, C.1950–80? Contemporary European History, 1–19.

Paul Smith

Trade Unions, the Right to Strike and the Political Economy of Labour: The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974. Industrial Relations Journal, 1–14.

Avram Taylor

The Limits to Solidarity: Trade Union Responses to European Workers in Britain, 1945–1948. Labour History Review, Volume 90, Number 1.

Tamara Trodd

‘The solid reality of a piece of ore’: Guernica (Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens) and Bazinian realism. French Screen Studies.

Grace Whorrall-Campbell, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83. History of the Human Sciences, 1–25.

Freya Willis

‘Caring for the community on poverty wages’: care workers’ experiences of low pay, exploitation, and precarity in Britain 1979–2010. Women's History Review.

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