| Designing time: the design and use of nineteenth-century transport timetables M Esbester Journal of Design History 22 (2), 91-113, 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| Regulatory inspection and the changing legitimacy of health and safety P Almond, M Esbester Regulation & Governance 12 (1), 46-63, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Nineteenth-century timetables and the history of reading M Esbester Book History 12 (1), 156-185, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Organizing work: Company magazines and the discipline of safety M Esbester Management & Organizational History 3 (3-4), 217-237, 2008 | 23 | 2008 |
| Governing Risks in Modern Britain T Crook, M Esbester London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Health and safety in contemporary Britain: Society, legitimacy, and change since 1960 P Almond, M Esbester Springer, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Designing and gathering information: perspectives on nineteenth-century forms M Esbester, P Stiff, P Dobraszczyk Information history in the modern world: histories of the information age, 57-88, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| Introduction: global perspectives on road safety history M Esbester, JM Wetmore Technology and culture 56 (2), 307-318, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
| Birth of Modern Safety: Preventing Worker Accidents on Britain's Railways, 1871-1948 M Esbester Routledge, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Risk and the history of governing modern Britain, c. 1800–2000 T Crook, M Esbester Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800 …, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Il/legitimate risks P Almond, M Esbester Occupational Health and Safety and the Public in Britain, c 2015, 277-296, 1960 | 8 | 1960 |
| Administration, technology & workplace safety in the early twentieth century M Esbester Jahrbuch für europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte 20, 95-117, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
| “No good reason for the government to interfere”: Business, the state and railway employee safety in Britain, c. 1900-39 M Esbester Business and Economic History Online 4, 1-19, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
| Reinvention, renewal or repetition? the great western railway and occupational safety on Britain’s railways, c. 1900-c. 1920 M Esbester Business and Economic History Online 3, 2005 | 5 | 2005 |
| Recent Public Attitudes Towards Health and Safety P Almond, M Esbester, P Almond, M Esbester Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain: Society, Legitimacy, and Change …, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Digital disasters: crowdsourcing the railway accident M Esbester Transport and Its Place in History, 207-228, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| Do the public have a problem with health and safety? M Esbester, P Almond Health and safety in a changing world, 32-51, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Mapping the way? Maps, emotion, gender G Letherby, G Reynolds Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions, 33-44, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| The changing legitimacy of health and safety, 1960–2015: understanding the past, preparing for the future P Almond, M Esbester Policy and Practice in Health and Safety 14 (1), 81-96, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Il/Legitimate risks? Occupational health and safety and the public in Britain, c. 1960–2015 P Almond, M Esbester Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800 …, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
