Holmes, SP. (2013) 'Weavers of Dreams, Unite!: Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America'. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Dawson, A. and Holmes, S. (2012) 'Working in the Global Film and Television Industries'. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 10: 1780930194 ISSN 13: 9781780930190

Holmes, SP. and Dawson, A. (2012) ''Help to Preserve the Real Story of Our Cinema and Television Industries': The BECTU History Project and the Construction of British Media History, 1986-2010'. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32 (3). pp. 435 - 448. ISSN: 0143-9685

Holmes, SP. (2012) 'The BECTU History Project: A Postscript'. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32 (3). pp. 449 - 451. ISSN: 0143-9685

Holmes, SP. (2012) 'New Perspectives on Working in the Global Film and Television Industries', in Holmes, SP. and Dawson, A. (eds.) Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Systems, Space, Patronage, and Creativity. London : Bloomsbury Academic.

Holmes, SP. (2012) 'No Room for Manoeuvre: Star Images and the Regulation of Actors' Labour in Silent-Era Hollywood', inWorking in the Global Film and Television Industries: Systems, Space, Patronage, and Creativity. London : Bloomsbury Academic.

Holmes, SP. (2012) 'Vaudeville', in Dumenil, L. (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. Oxford and London : Oxford University Press. ISBN 10: 0199743363. ISBN 13: 9780199743360.

Holmes, SP. (2008) 'All Work or No Play: Key Themes in the History of the American Stage Actor as Worker'. European Journal of American Studies [online], 2008. ISSN: 1991-9336 Open Access Link

Holmes, SP. (2005) 'Canned cooking: Stage actors, screen acting, and cultural hierarchy in the United States, 1912-1929'. Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 17 (1). pp. 5 - 24. ISSN: 1044-937X

Holmes, SP. (2005) 'All the world's a stage! The actors' strike of 1919'. Journal of American History, 91 (4). pp. 1291 - 1317. ISSN: 0021-8723

Holmes, SP. (2005) 'And the villain still pursued her: The actors' equity association in Hollywood, 1919-1929'. Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 25 (1). pp. 27 - 50. ISSN: 0143-9685

Holmes, SP. (2003) 'The Shuberts and the Actors’ Equity Association, 1913-1924'. The Passing Show: The Journal of the Shubert Archives. pp. 21 - 32.

Holmes, SP. (2001) 'When Elmer met Juanita: Organized labor and women war workers in the Toledo flat glass industry, 1941-45'. Northwest Ohio Quarterly, 73 (3-4). pp. 142 - 162. ISSN: 0029-3407

Holmes, SP. (2000) 'The Hollywood star system and the regulation of actors’ labour, 1916-1934'. Film History, 12. pp. 97 - 114. ISSN: 0892-2160

Holmes, SP. (1997) 'Margaret Sanger: A bibliographical essay', in Parish, PJ. (ed.) Reader's guide to American history. Routledge. ISBN 10: 1884964222. ISBN 13: 9781884964220.