| The evolution of British social policy and the welfare state: c. 1800-1993 K Laybourn Keele University Press, 1995 | 104 | 1995 |
| A history of British trade unionism c. 1770-1990 K Laybourn Alan Sutton, 1992 | 93 | 1992 |
| Britain on the breadline: a social and political history of Britain between the wars K Laybourn Alan Sutton, 1990 | 79 | 1990 |
| The general strike of 1926 K Laybourn Manchester University Press, 1993 | 74 | 1993 |
| A century of Labour: a history of the Labour Party 1900-2000 K Laybourn Stroud, 2000 | 64 | 2000 |
| Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918 K Laybourn, J Reynolds Routledge, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| The rise of socialism in Britain K Laybourn Alan Sutton, 1997 | 55 | 1997 |
| The Rise of Labour: The British Labour Party, 1890-1979 K Laybourn Edward Arnold, 1988 | 53 | 1988 |
| Under the red flag: the history of Communism in Britain, c. 1849-1991 K Laybourn Sutton, 1999 | 51 | 1999 |
| Britain's first Labour government J Shepherd, K Laybourn Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Marxism in Britain: dissent, decline and re-emergence 1945-c. 2000 K Laybourn Routledge, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| Philip Snowden: a biography K Laybourn Temple Smith, 1988 | 38 | 1988 |
| The rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism: the state of the debate K Laybourn History 80 (259), 207-226, 1995 | 37 | 1995 |
| Modern Britain since 1979: a reader CF Collette, K Laybourn IB Tauris, 2003 | 32 | 2003 |
| Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party D James Edinburgh University Press, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39 K Laybourn, D Taylor Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
| Fifty key figures in twentieth century British politics K Layborn Routledge, 2002 | 29 | 2002 |
| Working-Class Gambling in Britain c. 1906-1960s: The Stages of the Political Debate K Laybourn Mellen Press, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Labour Heartland: The history of the Labour party in West Yorkshire during the inter-war years, 1918-1939 K Laybourn, J Reynolds University of Bradford Press, 1987 | 25 | 1987 |
| The Guild of Help and the changing face of Edwardian Philanthropy: The Guild of Help, voluntary work and the state, 1904-1919 K Laybourn Edwin Mellen, 1994 | 24 | 1994 |
