Articles

Thomas, Benjamin (2025) 'Britain’s Whiz Kids: the PAR, CPRS and managerialism in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s’, 20, British Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-024-00275-0

Thomas, Benjamin J. (2025) '“One of the few people I knew who would be in sympathy with what we are doing here”: Richard Lynn, the Conservative Party and the construction of the New Right consensus', Contemporary British History, 39(3), 544-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2467436 

Thomas, Benjamin (2025) 'Universalizing the social market economy c.1978: stepping away from institutions and towards discourse', European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 32(4–5), 506–524 . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2025.2537261 (Open Access)

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Book Chapters


Thomas, Benjamin (2026) 'Universalizing the social market economy c.1978: stepping away from institutions and towards discourse', in Kiran Klaus Patel (Ed.) Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation: Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s. London: Routledge.

Thomas, Benjamin (2025) 'Britain’s social market moment: the transnational centre-right and the construction of the Thatcherite coalition', in Gary Love and Christian Egander Skov (Eds.) Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the dynamics of transformation: Traditions, cooperation and influence in North-West Europe, 1945-91. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 196-214.

Academic Thesis

Thomas, Benjamin (2023) Conceptualising Ideological Transition: Centre-Right Neoliberalisation in the UK and Post-War West Germany PhD Thesis. University of Nottingham [Please contact with queries]

Reviews

Thomas, Benjamin. (2024) 'Social Europe, the Road not Taken by Aurélie Dianara Andry’ Archiv für Sozialgeschichte

Thomas, Benjamin J. (2022) ‘What is Christian Democracy?: Politics, Religion and Ideology by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti’ Global Intellectual History 7(1) pp197-200

Public Facing Analysis

‘From the Alternative Economic Strategy to Popular Capitalism: Why social democrats do not own industrial democracy’, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, 34(1), pp30-40 2026.

“A future leadership contest: the influence of Conservative Party dynamics”, UK in a Changing Europe, 31 January 2022. 

Conference Report

Tagungsbericht: The End of National Histories?, In: H-Soz-Kult, 17.05.2019.