[3] Beginning with his first publication The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England (Stanford UP, 2001), Lewis has written and edited a number of significant books and essays which have contributed to the overall British history subject area.
[4] He is highly regarded for his contributions to the field of queer studies as his research has greatly unveiled and contextualized the history of homosexuality in Britain, notably through his analysis of primary sources such as the Wolfenden Committee papers.
[9][10] This ambitious work collects and heavily annotates a selection of papers from the Wolfenden Committee, a governmental group meant to establish the legal outlines of homosexuality and prostitution in England following the second world war.
This book serves as an important ressource for understanding the recent history of human rights and identity in England and offers context to many of the challenges still faced by the queer community in the 21st century.
[11] Lewis is also currently in the process of writing a new research publication called Greek To The Soul in which he explores George Ives' contributions to 19th and 20th-century English social reform and the history of homosexuality in Britain.