Contemporary British History

Aims & Scope

Contemporary British History offers innovative new research on British society, culture, politics, foreign policy, and the economy in the recent past.

We welcome work from across disciplines as well as work that takes a comparative or transnational approach to contemporary Britain.

Given the changing nature of the field, we are particularly interested in submissions dealing with the period since 1945.

The research articles published in Contemporary British History are diverse in their approach to the past.

Alongside detailed archival case studies, we publish theoretical and methodological reflections on the nature of the field, work on teaching contemporary British history, and analyses of the politics and public resonance of writing history.

The journal also publishes book reviews, review essays, and witness seminars.

We encourage submissions across these fields, and are open to suggestions for pieces that take a different form to the traditional research article.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.364

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	21

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14751

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	56

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Matthew

• Town Twinning in Cold-War Britain: (Dis)continuities in Twentieth-Century Municipal Internationalism

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Nick

• Rise and fall of the alternative economic strategy: From internationalisation of capital to ‘globalisation’

  Citation: 30

  Authors: John

• They do it with Mirrors: Advertising and British Cold War Consumer Politics

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Stefan

• Affluence and Social Change in the Making of Technocratic Middle-Class Identities: Britain, 1939–55

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Mike

• ‘Right to Buy’: The Development of a Conservative Housing Policy, 1945–1980

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Aled

• Anarchy, Pop and Violence: Punk Rock Subculture and the Rhetoric of Class, 1976-78

  Citation: 27

  Authors: D.

• Policy Feedback and the Criminal Justice Agenda: An Analysis of the Economy, Crime Rates, Politics and Public Opinion in Post-War Britain

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Stephen, Will

• Moral Panics and Glasgow Gangs: Exploring ‘the New Wave of Glasgow Hooliganism’, 1965–1970

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Angela

• Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post-War Working Class

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Selina

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