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Gurney, Peter (2022) The Marginalization of History. Labour History Review, 87 (3). pp. 277-81. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2022.11

Gurney, Peter (2020) Redefining ‘the woman with the basket’: the Women’s Co-operative Guild and the politics of consumption in Britain during World War Two. Gender and History, 32 (1). pp. 189-207. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12425

Gurney, Peter (2019) ‘Co-operation and Communism cannot work side by side’: organised consumers and the early Cold War in Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 30 (3). pp. 347-374. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy003

Gurney, PJ (2018) 'Voice of Civilisation': advertising and its critics in austerity Britain. Contemporary British History, 32 (2). pp. 190-208. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1410436

Gurney, Peter (2015) 'The Curse of the Co-ops': Co-operation, the Mass Press and the Market in Interwar Britain. English Historical Review, 130 (547). pp. 1479-1512. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev301

Gurney, PJ (2015) The Age of Veneer: Charles Dickens and the antinomies of Victorian consumer culture. Dickens Quarterly, 32 (3). pp. 229-246. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2015.0025

Gurney, Peter J (2014) The Democratic Idiom: Languages of Democracy in the Chartist Movement. The Journal of Modern History, 86 (3). pp. 566-602. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/676730

Gurney, PJ (2013) History and Commitment: E.P. Thompson's Legacy. Labour History Review, 78 (3). pp. 331-349. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2013.17

Gurney, PJ (2012) Co-operation and the "new consumerism" in interwar England. Business History, 54 (6). pp. 905-924. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.706896

Gurney, PJ (2010) Deborah Cohen, Household Gods. The British and their Possessions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). BBC History Magazine, 11 (2). p. 74.

Gurney, PJ (2009) Cooperazione, consumismo di massa e modernità. Gran Bretagna fra le due guerre, Revista della Cooperazione, Terza Serie Trimestrale, 2. pp. 39-71.

Gurney, PJ (2009) Exclusive Dealing in the Chartist Movement. Labour History Review, 74 (1). pp. 90-110. DOI https://doi.org/10.1179/174581809x408410

Gurney, PJ (2009) "Rejoicing in Potatoes": The Politics of Consumption in England during the "Hungry Forties". Past and Present, 203 (1). pp. 99-136. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp016

Gurney, PJ (2009) Une remise en question de l’ “opulence”: le movement coopérative britannique après la Seconde Guerre mondiale [Contesting “affluence”: The British cooperative movement after the Second World War]. Revue Internationale de l’Économie Sociale, 318. pp. 71-89.

Gurney, PJ (2009) Wanting and Having: New Histories of Scarcity and Excess in Modern Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 20 (1). pp. 97-109.

Gurney, PJ (2006) "The sublime of the bazaar": A moment in the making of a consumer culture in mid-nineteenth century England. Journal of Social History, 40 (2). pp. 385-405. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0016

Gurney, P (2006) Working-class writers and the art of escapology in Victorian England: The case of Thomas Frost. Journal of British Studies, 45 (1). pp. 51-71. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/497055

Gurney, P (2005) The battle of the consumer in postwar Britain. Journal of Modern History, 77 (4). pp. 956-987. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/499831

Gurney, PJ (1997) "Intersex" and "dirty girls": Mass-observation and working-class sexuality in England in the 1930s. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 8 (3). pp. 256-290.

Gurney, PJ (1997) Le debat sur la co-operation dans l'Angleterre Victorienne et Edwardienne. Histoire, économie et société, 16 (2). pp. 259-278.

Gurney, PJ (1997) The politics of public space in Manchester, 1896-1919. Manchester Region History Review, XI. pp. 12-23.

Gurney, PJ (1994) Heads, hands and the co-operative utopia: an essay in historiography. North West Labour History, 19. pp. 3-23.

Gurney, PJ (1994) The Middle Class Embrace: language, representation and the contest over co-operative forms in Britain, 1860-1914. Victorian Studies, 37 (2). pp. 253-286.

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Gurney, PJ (2015) A house divided: the Labour Party and the organised consumer in post-war Britain. In: Consuming Behaviours: identity, politics and pleasure in twentieth-century Britain. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 237-251. ISBN 978-0857857392.

Gurney, PJ (2009) Entries on 'Co-operative Press' and 'G. J. Holyoake'. In: Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press and The British Library, 142-3, 285-6. ISBN 978-9038213408.

Gurney, PJ (2007) '"A Palace for the People"? The Crystal Palace and consumer culture in Victorian England. In: Victorian Prism. Refractions of the Crystal Palace. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, pp. 138-150. ISBN 9780813926032.

Gurney, PJ (2001) An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class. In: The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 114-145. ISBN 9780719055928.

Gurney, PJ (2000) Observing working-class sexuality in England in the 1930s. In: Sex, State and Society. Comparative Perspectives on the History of Sexuality. Almqvist and Wiksell International, Stockholm, pp. 301-328. ISBN 9789171918710.

Gurney, PJ (1999) Labor's great arch: Co-operation and cultural revolution in Britain, 1795-1926. In: Consumers against Capitalism? Consumer Co-operation in Europe, North America and Japan, 1840-1990. Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, pp. 135-171. ISBN 9780847686490.

Gurney, PJ (1997) Measuring the distance: D. H. Lawrence, Raymond Williams and the quest for "community". In: Social Conditions, Status and Community, c.1860-1920. Alan Sutton, Gloucester, pp. 60-83. ISBN 9780750910705.

Gurney, PJ (1995) L'abbraccio della bourghesia: linguaggi e modi di rappresentare la cooperazione in Gran Bretagna, 1860-1914. In: La Federconsorzi tra Stato liberale e fascismo. Laterza, Rome, pp. 231-268. ISBN 978-8842048060.

Gurney, PJ (1988) George Jacob Holyoake: Socialism, association and co-operation in nineteenth century England. In: New Views of Co-operation. Routledge, London, pp. 52-72. ISBN 978-0415025232. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315447087

Gurney, PJ (1988) "A Higher State of Civilisation and Happiness": Internationalism in the British Co-operative Movement c.1869-1917. In: Internationalism in the European Labour Movement: 1830-1940. Brill, Leiden, pp. 543-564. ISBN 9789004085558.

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Gurney, Peter and Grant, Matthew and Morley, Joel (2025) National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192898968. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191925443.001.0001

Gurney, Peter (2017) The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 1-276. ISBN 9781441137210. Official URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-making-of-consum...

Gurney, Peter (2015) Wanting and having: Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830-70. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9145-2. Official URL: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091...

Gurney, P (1996) Co-operative Culture and the Politics of Consumption in England, 1870-1930. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719049507.