| The changing body: health, nutrition, and human development in the western world since 1700 R Floud, RW Fogel, B Harris, SC Hong Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 802 | 2011 |
| The origins of the British welfare state: society, state and social welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945 B Harris Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018 | 425 | 2018 |
| Public health, nutrition, and the decline of mortality: The McKeown thesis revisited B Harris Social history of medicine 17 (3), 379-407, 2004 | 216 | 2004 |
| The health of the schoolchild: a history of the school medical service in England and Wales, 1908-74 B Harris Open University, 1995 | 190 | 1995 |
| Health, height and welfare: Britain 1700-1980 R Floud, B Harris National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996 | 146 | 1996 |
| Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960 W Ernst, B Harris Routledge, 2002 | 122 | 2002 |
| Voluntary action and the state in historical perspective B Harris Voluntary Sector Review 1 (1), 25-40, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
| Health, height, and history: an overview of recent developments in anthropometric history B Harris Social History of Medicine 7 (2), 297-320, 1994 | 77 | 1994 |
| Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 B Harris, P Bridgen Routledge, 2012 | 68 | 2012 |
| Gender, health, and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation B Harris Research in Economic History 26, 157-204, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Commentary:‘The child is father of the man.’The relationship between child health and adult mortality in the 19th and 20th centuries B Harris International Journal of Epidemiology 30 (4), 688-696, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
| Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality B Harris, J Helgertz The History of the Family 24 (2), 207-226, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| Gender, height and mortality in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Britain: some preliminary reflections B Harris The biological standard of living in comparative perspective, 413-448, 1998 | 46 | 1998 |
| Sanitary investment and the decline of urban mortality in England and Wales, 1817–1914 B Harris, A Hinde The history of the Family 24 (2), 339-376, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| History of associations and volunteering DH Smith, DH Smith, DH Smith, DH Smith, DH Smith, RA Stebbins, ... The Palgrave handbook of volunteering, civic participation, and nonprofit …, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Introduction: The “mixed economy of welfare” and the historiography of welfare provision B Harris, P Bridgen Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800, 9-26, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Facing illness in troubled times: health in Europe in the interwar years I Borowy, W Gruner, R Lee, T Halling, J Schafer, J Vogele, P Weindling, ... | 38 | 2005 |
| The height of schoolchildren in Britain 1900-50 B Harris University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| Growing taller, living longer? Anthropometric history and the future of old age B Harris Ageing & Society 17 (5), 491-512, 1997 | 35 | 1997 |
| The demographic impact of the First World War: an anthropometric perspective B Harris Social History of Medicine 6 (3), 343-366, 1993 | 31 | 1993 |
