| Propaganda: political rhetoric and identity, 1300-2000 T Thornton, B Taithe Sutton Publishing, 1999 | 70 | 1999 |
| Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England T Thornton Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Cheshire and the Tudor State 1480-1560 T Thornton Boydell & Brewer, 2000 | 53 | 2000 |
| Propaganda: A misnomer of rhetoric and persuasion B Taithe, T Thornton Propaganda. Political rhetoric and identity, 1300-2000, 1999 | 43 | 1999 |
| Professional recognition: promoting recognition through the Higher Education Academy in a UK higher education institution T Thornton Tertiary Education and Management 20 (3), 225-238, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| The Channel Islands, 1370-1640: Between England and Normandy T Thornton Boydell Press, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| Prophecy: the power of inspired language in history, 1300-2000 T Thornton, B Taithe Sutton Publishing, 1997 | 19* | 1997 |
| The Language of History: Past and Future in Prophecy B Taithe, T Thornton na, 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| War: identities in conflicts, 1400-2000 T Thornton, B Taithe Sutton Publishing, 1998 | 13 | 1998 |
| War: identities in conflict, 1300-2000 B Taithe, T Thornton Sutton Pub Ltd, 1998 | 13* | 1998 |
| The Palatinate of Durham and the Maryland Charter T Thornton The American Journal of Legal History 45 (3), 235-255, 2001 | 12 | 2001 |
| Illegitimacy and Authority in the North of England, c. 1450–1640 K Carlton, T Thornton Northern History 48 (1), 23-40, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Fifteenth-Century Durham and the Problem of Provincial Liberties in England and the Wider Territories of the English Crown: Proxime Accessit, Alexander Prize 1999 T Thornton Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 11, 83-100, 2001 | 11 | 2001 |
| More on a Murder: The Deaths of the ‘Princes in the Tower’, and Historiographical Implications for the Regimes of Henry VII and Henry VIII T Thornton History 106, 4-25, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| The integration of Cheshire into the Tudor nation state in the early sixteenth century T Thornton Northern History 29 (1), 40-63, 1993 | 10 | 1993 |
| Henry VIII's Progress Through Yorkshire in 1541 and its Implications for Northern Identities T Thornton Northern History 46 (2), 231-244, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy L Coote, T Thornton Historical Research 73 (182), 321-330, 2000 | 9 | 2000 |
| Cheshire: the inner citedel of Richard II's kingdom? T Thornton Tempus Publishing, 2000 | 9 | 2000 |
| Dynasty and territory in the early modern period: The Princes of Wales and their Western British inheritance T Thornton Welsh history review 20 (1), 1-33, 2000 | 8 | 2000 |
| Taxing the King's dominions: the subject territories of the English Crown in the Late Middle Ages T Thornton Shaun Tyas, 1999 | 8 | 1999 |
