Research Guides: United Kingdom: The Parliaments: U.K. Parliamentary Papers

Using the Database

NYU subscribes to the massive database U.K.Parliamentary Papers. This is a rich and consequently complex database.

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Provides full-text access to the Parliamentary Papers. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Dates of coverage: 1688 to the present.

Getting Started

ProQuest LibGuide: U.K. Parliamentary Papers
This guide has excellent and extensive help, including detailed descriptions, animated demonstrations of searching, glossary, and an index for the 19th-century papers.

Users can also create their own "archive" and save both searches and records.

It is highly recommended that users read the information provided in the database that is specific to each section which clarify the holdings.

For example, the "Introduction To The Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection 1688-1834" provides the sources and detail of the scanned content. The section for the 18th Century clearly contains a wider time frame than 1701-1800, and the content is not complete across this range. So understanding what sources went into this section clarifies the range and depth of its content:

House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century 1715-1800
Reports from the Committees of the House of Commons 1715-1801
House of Lords Sessional Papers 1714-1805
Harper Collection of Private Bills 1695-1814
Local and Personal Acts 1797-1834
Private Acts 1702-1727 and Private Bills 1727-1814
Private Acts 1815-1834
Journals of the House of Commons 1688-1834
Journals of the House of Lords 1688-1834
Parliamentary Register 1774-1780, 1780-1796, 1796-1802 and 1802-1805
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons 1660-1743
The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords 1660-1742

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