2023

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979, by Malcolm Petrie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022; pp. 212. £85). English Historical Review, (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead195)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Winston Churchill versus E. D. Morel, Dundee, 1922, and the split in the Liberal Party. Journal of British Studies, 62(4), pp. 964-987. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2023.71)

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Growthmanship in the twenty-first century. Political Quarterly, 94(4), pp. 634-641. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13335)

Tomlinson, J. (2023) ‘The Limits of Austerity’ Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press: 2022), 480pp., $30, ISBN 978-0-226-81839-9. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), pp. 203-214. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.12)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Imagining economic growth in post-war Britain. Twentieth-Century British History, (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad049) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Tomlinson, J. (2022) The First World War in a 'women's town': Dundee 1914-1922. Women's History Review, 31(2), pp. 173-197. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1864886)

Tomlinson, J. , Phillips, J. and Wright, V. (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64(1), pp. 28-54. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)

2021

Tomlinson, J. (2021) The strange survival of “embedded liberalism”: national economic management and globalization in Britain from 1944. Twentieth Century British History, 32(4), pp. 483-508. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab012)

Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences. Contemporary British History, 35(4), pp. 620-642. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2021.1972416)

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474479240

Wright, V. , Phillips, J. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee. Labour History Review, 86(1), pp. 63-90. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)

2020

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Churchill’s defeat in Dundee, 1922, and the decline of liberal political economy. Historical Journal, 63(4), pp. 980-1006. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X19000475)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) De-industrialization: Strengths and weaknesses as a key concept for understanding post-war British history. Urban History, 47(2), pp. 199-219. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926819000221)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Social democracy and the problem of equality: economic analysis and political argument in the United Kingdom. History of Political Economy, 52, pp. 519-538. (doi: 10.1215/00182702-8304843)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Supplying ‘Juteopolis’: Dundee and Bengal Jute, c.1850-1914. Commodities of Empire Working Paper No. 31. Working Paper. Commodities of Empire Project.

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2020) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61(2), pp. 151-169. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)

2019

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood car plant and Scotland’s political divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth-Century British History, 30(3), pp. 399-423. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)

Tomlinson, J. (2019) Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neo-liberalism? In: Hoppitt, J., Needham, D. and Leonard, A. (eds.) Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton. Series: People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history (14). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 181-197. ISBN 9781783274451

2018

Tomlinson, J. (2018) The economy. In: Brown, D., Crowcroft, R. and Pentland, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198714897

2017

Tomlinson, J. (2017) Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198786092 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198786092.001.0001)

Tomlinson, J. (2017) Key historical trends in the Scottish economy. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 12-25. ISBN 9781138960916

Tomlinson, J. (2017) The art of the possible. Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: essays in memory of Duncan Tanner. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 37(1), pp. 101-102. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913)[Book Review]

2016

Tomlinson, J. (2016) Distributional politics: the search for equality in Britain since the First World War. In: Hudson, P. and Tribe, K. (eds.) The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-first Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Agenda: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 167-191. ISBN 9781911116103

Tomlinson, J. (2016) De-industrialization not decline: a new meta-narrative for post-war British history. Twentieth-Century British History, 27(1), pp. 76-99. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwv030)

Tomlinson, J. (2016) Economic policy. In: Crines, A. and Hickson, K. (eds.) Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Biteback: London, pp. 93-111. ISBN 9781785900310

Tomlinson, J. and Gibbs, E. (2016) Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979. Contemporary British History, 30(4), pp. 584-606. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)

2015

Tomlinson, J. (2015) A new political arithmetic? Social History, 40(1), pp. 5-14. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2014.993147)

Tomlinson, J. (2015) Orientalism at work?: Dundee’s response to competition from Calcutta, circa 1870-1914. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(5), pp. 807-830. (doi: 10.1080/03086534.2014.982417)

2014

Tomlinson, J. (2014) British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s. Economic History Review, 67(3), pp. 750-768. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12038)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Imagining the economic nation: the Scottish case. Political Quarterly, 85(2), pp. 170-177. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12082)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) The political economy of globalization: the genesis of Dundee's two 'United Fronts' in the 1930s. Historical Journal, 57(1), pp. 225-245. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X13000344)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Dundee and the Empire: 'Juteopolis' 1850-1939. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748686148 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686148.001.0001)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Provincial radicalism today. Economy and Society, 43(2), pp. 307-314. (doi: 10.1080/03085147.2014.912462)

2013

Tomlinson, J. (2013) The spirit of 45? Austerity then and now. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 21(2/3), pp. 46-53.

Tomlinson, J. (2013) The politics of declinism. In: Black, L., Pemberton, H. and Thane, P. (eds.) Reassessing 1970s Britain. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 41-60. ISBN 978071908848

2012

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain. Review of International Political Economy, 19(3), pp. 477-500. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2011.561124)

Morelli, C.J., Tomlinson, J. and Wright, V. (2012) The managing of competition: government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63. Business History, 54(5), pp. 765-782. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2011.631129)

Tomlinson, J. (2012) De-globalization and its significance: from the particular to the general. Contemporary British History, 26(2), pp. 213-230. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2012.673714)

Tomlinson, J. (2012) The empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy. In: Thompson, A.S. (ed.) Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century. Series: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 211-250. ISBN 9780199236589

Tomlinson, J. (2012) From 'distribution of industry' to 'local Keynesianism': the growth of public sector employment in Britain. British Politics, 7(3), pp. 204-223. (doi: 10.1057/bp.2012.10)

Tomlinson, J. (2012) Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation. In: Jackson, B. and Saunders, R. (eds.) Making Thatcher's Britain. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781107012387

2011

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring', by Anthony Cooke. Economic History Review, 64(4), pp. 1393-1394. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00611_9.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Managing decline: the case of Jute. Scottish Historical Review, 90(2), pp. 257-279. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0036)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Re-inventing the 'moral economy' in post-war Britain. Historical Research, 84(224), pp. 356-373. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00544.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Review of: The Origins of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Contemporary Social and Economic History, by Gabriel Tortella. Economic History Review, 64(2), pp. 711-712. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00578_33.x)

Tomlinson, J. and Whatley, C.A. (Eds.) (2011) Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK. ISBN 9781845860905

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Out of recession? New Political Economy, 16(5), pp. 655-665. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2011.601810)

Tomlinson, J. , Morelli, C. and Wright, V. (2011) The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change. Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848931244

Tomlinson, J. , Morelli, C. and Wright, V. (2011) The Decline of Jute Managing Industrial Change. Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848931244

2010

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Sick but not dying. Political Studies Review, 8(1), pp. 67-72. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2009.00207.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Responding to globalization?: Churchill and Dundee in 1908. Twentieth-Century British History, 21(3), pp. 257-280. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwq017)

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Review of: Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, by Peter Clarke; Keynes: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky. Twentieth-Century British History, 21(2), pp. 232-234. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp060)

2009

Tomlinson, J. (2009) The deglobalisation of Dundee, c. 1900–2000. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 29(2), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.3366/E1748538X09000478)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Keynesianism constrained. Radical Philosophy, 155, pp. 6-10.

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Review of: The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since 1950, by Alan Booth. Economic History Review, 62(2), pp. 493-494. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00474_12.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain by Frank Trentmann. History, 94(314), pp. 252-253. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.453_23.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2009) After decline? Contemporary British History, 23(3), pp. 395-406. (doi: 10.1080/13619460903098467)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Balanced accounts? Constructing the balance of payments problem in post-war Britain. English Historical Review, CXXIV(509), pp. 863-884. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cep185)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Thrice denied: 'declinism' as a recurrent theme in British history in the long twentieth century. Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2), pp. 227-251. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp019)

2008

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Negotiating credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976. Contemporary European History, 17(4), pp. 545-566. (doi: 10.1017/S0960777308004700)

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Whatever happened to the balance of payments 'problem'? The contingent (re)construction of British economic performance assessment. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10(4), pp. 607-629. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2008.00334.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64 - by Ben Jackson. Economic History Review, 61(4), pp. 1017-1019. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00447_18.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 by Clare V. J. Griffiths. History, 93(312), pp. 576-577. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.432_48.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) History as political rhetoric. Political Studies Review, 6(3), pp. 297-307. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2008.00159.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2008) A 'failed experiment'? Public ownership and the narratives of post-war Britain. Labour History Review, 73(2), pp. 228-243. (doi: 10.1179/174581808X324289)

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Having it so good: Britain in the Fifties – by Peter Hennessy Never Had it so Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles – by Dominic Sandbrook. Economic History Review, 61(2), pp. 515-517. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00432_17.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Using History, Making British Policy: The Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–1976 by Peter J. Beck. History, 93(310), pp. 308-309. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.423_54.x)[Book Review]

Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Women and work after the Second World War: a case study of the jute industry, circa 1945-1954. Twentieth-Century British History, 19(1), pp. 61-82. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwm033)

2007

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2007) Credible Keynesianism? New Labour macroeconomic policy and the political economy of coarse tuning. British Journal of Political Science, 37(1), pp. 47-69. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123407000038)

Tomlinson, J. (2007) Mrs Thatcher's macroeconomic adventurism, 1979–1981, and its political consequences. British Politics, 2, pp. 3-19. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200038)

Tomlinson, J. (2007) Tale of a death exaggerated: how Keynesian policies survived the 1970s. Contemporary British History, 21(4), pp. 429-448. (doi: 10.1080/13619460601060439)

2006

Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. (2006) Women and Work After the Second World War: A Case Study of the Jute Industry, circa 1945-1954. Discussion Paper. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.

2005

Tomlinson, J. (2005) Managing the economy, managing the people: Britain c.1931–70. Economic History Review, 58(3), pp. 555-585. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00313.x)

2004

Tomlinson, J. (2004) The labour party and the capitalist firm, c. 1950–1970. Historical Journal, 47(3), pp. 685-708. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X04003917)

Tomlinson, J. (2004) Economic Policy. Series: Labour governments 1964-70, 3. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719045875

2003

Tomlinson, J. (2003) The commonwealth, the balance of payments and the politics of international poverty: British aid policy, 1958-1971. Contemporary European History, 12(4), pp. 413-429. (doi: 10.1017/S0960777303001358)

2002

Tomlinson, J. (2002) The British 'productivity problem' in the 1960s. Past and Present, 175(1), pp. 188-210. (doi: 10.1093/past/175.1.188)

Articles

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Winston Churchill versus E. D. Morel, Dundee, 1922, and the split in the Liberal Party. Journal of British Studies, 62(4), pp. 964-987. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2023.71)

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Growthmanship in the twenty-first century. Political Quarterly, 94(4), pp. 634-641. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13335)

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Imagining economic growth in post-war Britain. Twentieth-Century British History, (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad049) (Early Online Publication)

Tomlinson, J. (2022) The First World War in a 'women's town': Dundee 1914-1922. Women's History Review, 31(2), pp. 173-197. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1864886)

Tomlinson, J. , Phillips, J. and Wright, V. (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64(1), pp. 28-54. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)

Tomlinson, J. (2021) The strange survival of “embedded liberalism”: national economic management and globalization in Britain from 1944. Twentieth Century British History, 32(4), pp. 483-508. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab012)

Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences. Contemporary British History, 35(4), pp. 620-642. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2021.1972416)

Wright, V. , Phillips, J. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee. Labour History Review, 86(1), pp. 63-90. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Churchill’s defeat in Dundee, 1922, and the decline of liberal political economy. Historical Journal, 63(4), pp. 980-1006. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X19000475)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) De-industrialization: Strengths and weaknesses as a key concept for understanding post-war British history. Urban History, 47(2), pp. 199-219. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926819000221)

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Social democracy and the problem of equality: economic analysis and political argument in the United Kingdom. History of Political Economy, 52, pp. 519-538. (doi: 10.1215/00182702-8304843)

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2020) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61(2), pp. 151-169. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood car plant and Scotland’s political divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth-Century British History, 30(3), pp. 399-423. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)

Tomlinson, J. (2016) De-industrialization not decline: a new meta-narrative for post-war British history. Twentieth-Century British History, 27(1), pp. 76-99. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwv030)

Tomlinson, J. and Gibbs, E. (2016) Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979. Contemporary British History, 30(4), pp. 584-606. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)

Tomlinson, J. (2015) A new political arithmetic? Social History, 40(1), pp. 5-14. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2014.993147)

Tomlinson, J. (2015) Orientalism at work?: Dundee’s response to competition from Calcutta, circa 1870-1914. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(5), pp. 807-830. (doi: 10.1080/03086534.2014.982417)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s. Economic History Review, 67(3), pp. 750-768. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12038)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Imagining the economic nation: the Scottish case. Political Quarterly, 85(2), pp. 170-177. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12082)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) The political economy of globalization: the genesis of Dundee's two 'United Fronts' in the 1930s. Historical Journal, 57(1), pp. 225-245. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X13000344)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Provincial radicalism today. Economy and Society, 43(2), pp. 307-314. (doi: 10.1080/03085147.2014.912462)

Tomlinson, J. (2013) The spirit of 45? Austerity then and now. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 21(2/3), pp. 46-53.

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain. Review of International Political Economy, 19(3), pp. 477-500. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2011.561124)

Morelli, C.J., Tomlinson, J. and Wright, V. (2012) The managing of competition: government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63. Business History, 54(5), pp. 765-782. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2011.631129)

Tomlinson, J. (2012) De-globalization and its significance: from the particular to the general. Contemporary British History, 26(2), pp. 213-230. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2012.673714)

Tomlinson, J. (2012) From 'distribution of industry' to 'local Keynesianism': the growth of public sector employment in Britain. British Politics, 7(3), pp. 204-223. (doi: 10.1057/bp.2012.10)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring', by Anthony Cooke. Economic History Review, 64(4), pp. 1393-1394. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00611_9.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Managing decline: the case of Jute. Scottish Historical Review, 90(2), pp. 257-279. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0036)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Re-inventing the 'moral economy' in post-war Britain. Historical Research, 84(224), pp. 356-373. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00544.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Review of: The Origins of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Contemporary Social and Economic History, by Gabriel Tortella. Economic History Review, 64(2), pp. 711-712. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00578_33.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2011) Out of recession? New Political Economy, 16(5), pp. 655-665. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2011.601810)

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Sick but not dying. Political Studies Review, 8(1), pp. 67-72. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2009.00207.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Responding to globalization?: Churchill and Dundee in 1908. Twentieth-Century British History, 21(3), pp. 257-280. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwq017)

Tomlinson, J. (2010) Review of: Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, by Peter Clarke; Keynes: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky. Twentieth-Century British History, 21(2), pp. 232-234. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp060)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) The deglobalisation of Dundee, c. 1900–2000. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 29(2), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.3366/E1748538X09000478)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Keynesianism constrained. Radical Philosophy, 155, pp. 6-10.

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Review of: The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since 1950, by Alan Booth. Economic History Review, 62(2), pp. 493-494. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00474_12.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) After decline? Contemporary British History, 23(3), pp. 395-406. (doi: 10.1080/13619460903098467)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Balanced accounts? Constructing the balance of payments problem in post-war Britain. English Historical Review, CXXIV(509), pp. 863-884. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cep185)

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Thrice denied: 'declinism' as a recurrent theme in British history in the long twentieth century. Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2), pp. 227-251. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp019)

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Negotiating credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976. Contemporary European History, 17(4), pp. 545-566. (doi: 10.1017/S0960777308004700)

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Whatever happened to the balance of payments 'problem'? The contingent (re)construction of British economic performance assessment. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10(4), pp. 607-629. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2008.00334.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2008) History as political rhetoric. Political Studies Review, 6(3), pp. 297-307. (doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2008.00159.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2008) A 'failed experiment'? Public ownership and the narratives of post-war Britain. Labour History Review, 73(2), pp. 228-243. (doi: 10.1179/174581808X324289)

Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. (2008) Women and work after the Second World War: a case study of the jute industry, circa 1945-1954. Twentieth-Century British History, 19(1), pp. 61-82. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwm033)

Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. (2007) Credible Keynesianism? New Labour macroeconomic policy and the political economy of coarse tuning. British Journal of Political Science, 37(1), pp. 47-69. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123407000038)

Tomlinson, J. (2007) Mrs Thatcher's macroeconomic adventurism, 1979–1981, and its political consequences. British Politics, 2, pp. 3-19. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200038)

Tomlinson, J. (2007) Tale of a death exaggerated: how Keynesian policies survived the 1970s. Contemporary British History, 21(4), pp. 429-448. (doi: 10.1080/13619460601060439)

Tomlinson, J. (2005) Managing the economy, managing the people: Britain c.1931–70. Economic History Review, 58(3), pp. 555-585. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00313.x)

Tomlinson, J. (2004) The labour party and the capitalist firm, c. 1950–1970. Historical Journal, 47(3), pp. 685-708. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X04003917)

Tomlinson, J. (2003) The commonwealth, the balance of payments and the politics of international poverty: British aid policy, 1958-1971. Contemporary European History, 12(4), pp. 413-429. (doi: 10.1017/S0960777303001358)

Tomlinson, J. (2002) The British 'productivity problem' in the 1960s. Past and Present, 175(1), pp. 188-210. (doi: 10.1093/past/175.1.188)

Books

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474479240

Tomlinson, J. (2017) Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198786092 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198786092.001.0001)

Tomlinson, J. (2014) Dundee and the Empire: 'Juteopolis' 1850-1939. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748686148 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686148.001.0001)

Tomlinson, J. , Morelli, C. and Wright, V. (2011) The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change. Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848931244

Tomlinson, J. , Morelli, C. and Wright, V. (2011) The Decline of Jute Managing Industrial Change. Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9). Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781848931244

Tomlinson, J. (2004) Economic Policy. Series: Labour governments 1964-70, 3. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719045875

Book Sections

Tomlinson, J. (2019) Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neo-liberalism? In: Hoppitt, J., Needham, D. and Leonard, A. (eds.) Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton. Series: People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history (14). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 181-197. ISBN 9781783274451

Tomlinson, J. (2018) The economy. In: Brown, D., Crowcroft, R. and Pentland, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198714897

Tomlinson, J. (2017) Key historical trends in the Scottish economy. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 12-25. ISBN 9781138960916

Tomlinson, J. (2016) Distributional politics: the search for equality in Britain since the First World War. In: Hudson, P. and Tribe, K. (eds.) The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-first Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Agenda: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 167-191. ISBN 9781911116103

Tomlinson, J. (2016) Economic policy. In: Crines, A. and Hickson, K. (eds.) Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Biteback: London, pp. 93-111. ISBN 9781785900310

Tomlinson, J. (2013) The politics of declinism. In: Black, L., Pemberton, H. and Thane, P. (eds.) Reassessing 1970s Britain. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 41-60. ISBN 978071908848

Tomlinson, J. (2012) The empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy. In: Thompson, A.S. (ed.) Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century. Series: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 211-250. ISBN 9780199236589

Tomlinson, J. (2012) Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation. In: Jackson, B. and Saunders, R. (eds.) Making Thatcher's Britain. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 62-77. ISBN 9781107012387

Book Reviews

Tomlinson, J. (2023) Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979, by Malcolm Petrie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022; pp. 212. £85). English Historical Review, (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead195)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2023) ‘The Limits of Austerity’ Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press: 2022), 480pp., $30, ISBN 978-0-226-81839-9. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), pp. 203-214. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.12)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2017) The art of the possible. Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: essays in memory of Duncan Tanner. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 37(1), pp. 101-102. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2009) Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain by Frank Trentmann. History, 94(314), pp. 252-253. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.453_23.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64 - by Ben Jackson. Economic History Review, 61(4), pp. 1017-1019. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00447_18.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 by Clare V. J. Griffiths. History, 93(312), pp. 576-577. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.432_48.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Having it so good: Britain in the Fifties – by Peter Hennessy Never Had it so Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles – by Dominic Sandbrook. Economic History Review, 61(2), pp. 515-517. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00432_17.x)[Book Review]

Tomlinson, J. (2008) Review of: Using History, Making British Policy: The Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–1976 by Peter J. Beck. History, 93(310), pp. 308-309. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.423_54.x)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Tomlinson, J. and Whatley, C.A. (Eds.) (2011) Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK. ISBN 9781845860905

Research Reports or Papers

Tomlinson, J. (2020) Supplying ‘Juteopolis’: Dundee and Bengal Jute, c.1850-1914. Commodities of Empire Working Paper No. 31. Working Paper. Commodities of Empire Project.

Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. (2006) Women and Work After the Second World War: A Case Study of the Jute Industry, circa 1945-1954. Discussion Paper. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.