On this page you will find a list of recent books and articles which have used the collections here at the History Centre. The list has been created using Google Scholar and may not include every publication which has used our archives. If you know of a publication you think we should include, please get in touch.
Where a link to a publication is available it is included, however please note that some items may be paywalled.
Published in 2026
“Another Road to Midnight: The India League and the Anticolonial Idea of a Constituent Assembly 1932–47”. Abhimanyu Arni in Journal of Global History, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022825100211
“Facing ‘The World of the 70’s’: Martin Ennals, Amnesty International, and the Turn to the Third World in Human Rights Internationalism”. Michelle Carmody in The International History Review Volume 48 No 1, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2466459
Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Guy Cuthbertson, 2026.
“The European Court of Human Rights, pressure-group politics, and the abolition of corporal punishment in British state schools, 1977–1986”. Marco Duranti and Christopher Hilliard in Contemporary British History Volume 40 No 1, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2597771
“Thatcherism and the Picket Line”. Diarmaid Kelliher in The English Historical Review, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceag005
"Archival Provenance and Hidden Histories: The Case of the Peru and Green Vale Papers". Sarah Pymer, in Inclusive Heritage: Hidden Pasts, Reconciling Presents, Diversifying Futures, 2026.
“‘Every Practical Step’: The Gleneagles Agreement and Sporting Links with Apartheid South Africa during the Thatcher Years”. Toby C Rider and Matthew P Llewellyn in Journal of Policy History Volume 38 No 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030625100560
Published in 2025
“Provident Imperialism: The De Bunsen Committee and British Language of Indirect Control over the Ottoman Empire”. Özge Aslanmirza in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 54 No 2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2025.2517133
Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830. Hannah Barker, Carys Brown, Kate Gibson and Jeremy Gregory, 2025.
“Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Artillery Garrison, 1916-1917: Part 2, Active Service”. Jim Beach and Rod Rosenquist in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research Volume 103 No 414, 2025.
"The changing shape of support in the work of port chaplains". Wendy Cadge, Nelson Turgo and Helen Sampson, in International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 37 No 3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714251355687
Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history. Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann, 2025.
“Coercive cinema: police film in schools, 1966-75”. Georgie Carr in Screen, Volume 66, No 2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjaf024
Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951. Henry Dee, 2025.
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 1: The Stratigraphic Sequence. D H Evans, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641193
“Echoes of Thomas Carlyle in Philip Larkin’s Poetry”. Christopher Fletch and Clarissa Hard in Notes and Queries, 2025.
“The Politics of Military Welfare in Yorkshire and the Memory of the Civil Wars, 1642–1709”. Andrew Hopper in The English Historical Review, Volume 140, No 604-605, June 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf002
Childhood and War in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Jennine Hurl-Eamon, 2025.
Emergency Powers and the Home Fronts in Britain and Germany During the First World War. André Keil, 2025.
“Winston Field and the Decolonisation of ‘British Central Africa’: Crossing Racial Divides with Kamuzu Banda and Beyond, 1957-64”. Brooks Marmon in African Studies, Volume 84 No 1-2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2025.2540844
“Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750”. Emma Marshall, in The History of the Family, Volume 30 No 1, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2360946
“Time, Tide, and Tempestuous Flooding: Andrew Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in an Age of Storms”. Stewart Mottram, Hannah Worthen, and Briony McDonagh in Review of English Studies Volume 76 No 324, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgaf012
“Three Ways of Remembering World War I”. Harold Mytum, in Monuments and Memory: Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration, 2025.
Early Modern Merchants and Their Books. Angus Vine, 2025.
Published in 2024
“Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians”. Stewart Mottram in Notes and Queries, 2024.
“Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement”. Hannah Worthen and Claire Weatherall in Area Volume 57 No 4, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12985
Published in 2023
Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters. Emily Cockayne, 2023.
“No Pass Laws Here! Internal Border Controls and the Global ‘Hostile Environment’”. Kathryn Medien in Sociology, Volume 57 No 4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221122518
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966. Ismay Milford, 2023.
“‘Lest We Forget’: the archaeology of warfare, conservation, interpretation, and engagement in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire”. Richard Newman in The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, Volume 14 No 2, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2023.2202924
Published in 2022
“Politics of Archaeology in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Case of a British Aristocrat”. Özge Aslanmirza, in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Volume 9, No. 1, 2022.
Beyond Trawlertown: memory, life and legacy in the wake of the Cod Wars. Jo Byrne, 2022.
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System. Maeve Ryan, 2022
Published in 2021
“’A most excellent medicine’: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell”. Stewart Mottram in The Seventeenth Century, Volume 36 No 4, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1901240
“City of culture, city of transformation: bringing together the urban past and urban present in The Hull Blitz Trail”. Charlotte Tomlinson in Urban History, Volume 48 No. 2, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819001172