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25
March
2025
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07:30
Europe/London

Parliamentary Papers: Widening the range of our digital resources

We have expanded our access to UK Parliamentary Papers to include House of Lords Parliamentary Papers (1800 to 1910), House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (2015 to 2023) and Public Petitions to Parliament (1833 to 1918).

House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, 1800 to 1910 

This collection is of international significance, revealing previously unknown material such as statistical data, oral evidence, letters and business papers relating to Britain, and the many parts of the world that were under British influence. Examples include reports relating to the abolition of slavery, evidence presented about the working conditions of children employed in cotton mills and letters from the Governor-General of India describing the Indian rebellion of 1857. 

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 2015 to 2023 

This resource empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on events from the recent past through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents including drafts of legislation, and reports from committees. One such source is the Treasury Committee report on 鈥淛obs, growth and productivity after coronavirus鈥 which includes documented oral testimony from Professor Bart van Ark, the Professor of Productivity Studies at the Alliance 优蜜传媒 Business School. 

Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833 to 1918 

Petitioning has been a popular form of political participation for centuries, and this collection will allow researchers to exploit new sources on the formative role of petitions to Parliament during the nineteenth century (1833 to 1918), an unparalleled period of political modernisation and democratisation in Britain. Users will be able to analyse the social, geographical, religious, and gender compositions of these issues of importance to the British public and allow for detailed textual and rhetorical analysis of the petitions. 

This resource will support students, researchers and staff in the disciplines of Politics, History, Law and Criminology and will also be of interest to the University鈥檚 interdisciplinary research groups in the Humanities such as the and the

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