Murphy, P. (2013) Monarchy and the end of empire: the House of Windsor, the British government and the post-war Commonwealth. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp274. ISBN 9780199214235

Murphy, P. (2011) Britain and the Commonwealth: confronting the past - imagining the future. Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of Commonwealth International Affairs, 100 (414). pp. 267-283. ISSN 1474-029X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2011.574901

Murphy, P. (2011) Britain as a global power in the twentieth century. In: Thompson, A. (ed.) Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century. Oxford History of the British Empire. Companion series. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 33-75. ISBN 9780199236589 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199236589.003.0002

Murphy, P. (2010) A police state? The Nyasaland emergency and colonial intelligence. Journal of South African Studies, 36 (4). pp. 765-780. ISSN 1465-3893 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2010.527634

Murphy, P. (2009) South African intelligence, the Wilson plot and post-Imperial trauma. In: Major, P. and Moran, C. R. (eds.) Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, pp. 97-118. ISBN 9781443813129

Murphy, P. (2008) Independence Day and the crown. Round Table, 97 (398). pp. 667-676. ISSN 1474-029x doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00358530802327852

Murphy, P. (2008) Telling tales out of school: Nutting, Eden and the attempted suppression of no end of a lesson. In: Smith, S. C. (ed.) Reassessing Suex 1956: new perspectives on the crisis and its aftermath. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 195-214. ISBN 9780754661702

Murphy, P. V. (2006) Breaking the bad news: plans for the announcement to the Empire of the death of Elizabeth II and the proclamation of her successor, 1952-67. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 34 (1). pp. 139-154. ISSN 1743-9329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530500412173

Murphy, P. V. (2006) 'Government by blackmail': the origins of the Central African Federation reconsidered. In: Lynn, M. (ed.) The British Empire in the 1950s: retreat or revival? Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403932266

Murphy, P. V. (2006) 'An intricate and distasteful subject': British planning for the use of force against the European settlers of Central Africa, 1952-65. English Historical Review, CXXI (492). pp. 746-777. ISSN 0013-8266 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel105

Lewis, J. and Murphy, P. V. (2006) 'The old pals' protection society'? The Colonial Office and the British press on the eve of decolonisation. In: Kaul, C. (ed.) Media and the British Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9781403948823

Murphy, P. V. (2005) By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth ‘Bilderberg group’, 1964–66. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 33 (2). pp. 245-265. ISSN 1743-9329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530500123853

Murphy, P. V., ed. (2005) Central Africa: part 2, crisis and dissolution 1959-1965. British documents on the end of empire, series B, 9. The Stationery Office, London, pp642. ISBN 9780112905875

Murphy, P. (2004) Boyd, Alan Tindal Lennox-, first Viscount Boyd of Merton (1904–1983). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 23-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31352

Murphy, P. (2004) Lyttelton, Oliver, first Viscount Chandos (1893–1972). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 968-970. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31385

Murphy, P. (2003) The African queen? Republicanism and defensive decolonization in British tropical Africa, 1958–64. Twentieth Century British History, 14 (3). pp. 243-263. ISSN 1477-4674 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/14.3.243

Murphy, P. (2003) Censorship, declassification and the history of end of empire in Central Africa. African Research and Documentation (92). pp. 3-26. ISSN 0305-862X

Lanfranco, A. M., Schofield, P. F., Murphy, P. J., Hodson, M. E., Mosselmans, J. F. W. and Valsami-Jones, E. (2003) Characterization and identification of mixed-metal phosphates in soils: the application, of Raman spectroscopy. Mineralogical Magazine, 67 (6). pp. 1299-1316. ISSN 0026-461X doi: https://doi.org/10.1180/0026461036760166