| The Science of History in Victorian Britain I Hesketh Pickering & Chatto/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011 | 83* | 2011 |
| The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600 A Feldherr, G Hardy, D Woolf, I Hesketh Oxford University Press, 2011 | 70 | 2011 |
| Of apes and ancestors: evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate I Hesketh University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| The Story of Big History I Hesketh History of the Present 4 (2), 171-202, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945 A Schneider, D Woolf, I Hesketh OUP Oxford, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 3: 1400-1800 J Rabasa, M Sato, E Tortarolo, I Hesketh | 46 | 2012 |
| The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800-1945 S Macintyre, J Maiguashca, A Pók, I Hesketh Oxford University Press, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Diagnosing froude's disease: Boundary work and the discipline of history in late‐victorian Britain I Hesketh History and Theory 47 (3), 373-395, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
| The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400 S Foot, CF Robinson, I Hesketh OUP Oxford, 2012 | 36* | 2012 |
| Victorian Jesus: JR Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity I Hesketh University of Toronto Press, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| The recurrence of the evolutionary epic I Hesketh Journal of the Philosophy of History 9 (2), 196-219, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Counterfactuals and history: Contingency and convergence in histories of science and life I Hesketh Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Canada, Cuba and constructive engagement: Political dissidents and human rights S Basdeo, I Hesketh Canada, the United States and Cuba: An Evolving Relationship, 2002 | 11 | 2002 |
| 'History is past politics, and politics present history': who said it? I Hesketh Notes and Queries 61 (1), 105-108, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Writing History in Macaulay’s Shadow: JR Seeley, EA Freeman, and the Audience for Scientific History in Late Victorian Britain I Hesketh Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 22 (2), 30-56, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
| A good Darwinian? Winwood Reade and the making of a late Victorian evolutionary epic I Hesketh Studies in history and philosophy of science Part C: Studies in history and …, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
| The First Darwinian: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Meaning of Darwinism I Hesketh Journal of Victorian Culture 25 (2), 171-184, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Technologies of the scientific self: John Tyndall and his journal I Hesketh Isis 110 (3), 460-482, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| Darwinian we are not: Counterfactualism as the natural course of history I Hesketh History and Theory 53 (2), 295-303, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| A History of Big History I Hesketh Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
Peter HarrisonUniversity of Notre Dame, Australia; University of QueenslandVerified email at uq.edu.au