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Full-text Parliamentary material
Hansard online
Statistical information
Census material
Other UK material
European Union and Europe
United Nations
United States
Full-text Parliamentary material
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Searchable full text of Parliamentary papers from 1688 to the present, with an index for the most recent sessions.
Provider: ProQuest; Access route: cam domain
Official Documents
The official reference facility for recent Command Papers, House of Commons Papers and key Departmental Papers.
Command Papers and House of Commons Papers are available in full text from 17 May 2005 to the present.
You can also browse a selection of material from before this date.
Provider: TSO; Access route: unrestricted
Legislation.gov.uk
Brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website and revised legislation from the Statute Law Database (SLD) to provide a single legislation service. The full text of primary UK legislation from 1267 and and secondary UK legislation from 1988 is available, including amendments. Browse chronologically; search by title, number or date of enactment.
Provider: The National Archives; Access route: unrestricted
British History Online
The parliamentary section of the site contains the full text of the Lords Journals, 1509-1764, 1776-1793 & 1830-2, and the Commons Journal, 1547-1699 & 1830. Other full text primary sources include Acts of the Privy Council. Note: access is available to certain sections of the site only.
Provider: University of London/History of Parliament Trust; Access route: unrestricted
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland
Contains the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving Act of 1235 to the union of 1707.
Provider: St. Andrews University; Access route: unrestricted
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Provides text and translations of the surviving rolls of parliaments from 1272 - 1509.
Provider: Scholarly Digital Editions; Access route: cam domain
Hansard online
An e-mail alert service is available for both Hansard pages.
House of Commons
Commons debates from October 1996 to the present, in full text and updated daily.
Provider: parliament.uk; Access route: unrestricted
House of Lords
Lords debates from June 1996 to date, in full text and updated daily.
Provider: parliament.uk; Access route: unrestricted
Statistical information
National Statistics Online
The official source for UK statistics.
Many documents are available in full text.
Provider: Office for National Statistics; Access route: unrestricted
Offstats: Official statistics on the Web
Statistics from official sources around the world, sorted by country, region
and subject area.
Provider: Auckland University Library; Access route: unrestricted
Historical Statistics of the United
States
An enhanced online online edition of this resource, published by Cambridge
University Press.
Provider: Cambridge University Press; Access route: cam domain
Canada Year Book Historical Collection
A resource from Statistics Canada covering the first century of Canadian history. Yearbooks containing social and economic
data are available from 1867-1967 as searchable PDFs.
Provider: Statistics Canada; Access route: unrestricted
Columbia International Affairs Online
A full-text online database for political science, diplomatic history, international law
policy formation, and country analysis.
Provider: Columbia University Press; Access route: cam domain
Census material
The 2001 Census of England and Wales
The first Census to be published primarily in electronic format. The site
offers results at national, regional and local level and also covers
ethnicity for the first time.
Provider: Office for National Statistics; Access route: unrestricted
The 1901 Census
Search the records of 32 million people living in England and Wales in 1901 and view
images of the original census documents.
Provider: The National Archives; Access route: unrestricted
Online Historical Population Reports Website
Online access to the population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 - 1937, including all published census
reports for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for the period.
Provider: Histpop; Access route: unrestricted
Other UK material
State Papers Online: The Tudors 1509-1603 State Papers Domestic
Contains 380,000 facsimile manuscript documents linked to fully-searchable Calendar entries for this period.
Provider: ProQuest; Access route: cam domain/Raven password
Cabinet Papers 1915 - 1978
These collections of Minutes and Memoranda constitute a fascinating record of the way in which the British government grappled with the events of the 20th century, including the outbreak and events of the first and second world wars, the post-war division of Europe,
the creation of the welfare state and the end of empire.
Provider: The National Archives; Access route: unrestricted
Northern Ireland: A divided community, 1921 -1972 Cabinet papers of the Stormont Administration
The Stormont Administration ran Northern Ireland as a province of the UK from 1921-72. This digital resource offers full-text searching of facsimile images of the complete record of Stormont from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, representing a unique record of "how government actually works" through turbulent and often violent times.
Provider: Cengage; Access route: cam domain/Raven password
National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)
Provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments spanning 40 years of recent history. The data includes results of surveys carried out by government departments and executive agencies.
Provider: The National Archives; Access route: unrestricted
Directgov
The UK government's digital service for people in England and Wales. It delivers information and practical advice about public services. Includes an A-Z of central government departments with contact details and links to their websites.
Provider: direct.gov.uk; Access route: unrestricted
European Union and Europe
Europa
The main server for the European Union, providing a link to all the institutions of the EU, press releases
and other recent material, information on policies, publications, legal texts and other
documents.
Provider: Europa; Access route: unrestricted
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe acts as a human rights and parliamentary democracy
watchdog, and promotes social cohesion, cultural identity, and
educational and environmental issues.
Provider: Council of Europe; Access route: unrestricted
Eurostat
Offers key European statistical information, news releases
and briefing notes. Register directly with the site in order to
save your searches and download data.
Provider: Europa; Access route: unrestricted
EU Bookshop Digital Library
Provides a link to all EU publications and gives access, free of charge, to 12 million pages from more than 110,000 EU publications.
Provider: Europa; Access route: unrestricted
United Nations
United Nations
Information on the UN's peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
Documentation from the General Assembly, the Security Council and the
International Court of Justice can be downloaded.
Provider: UN; Access route: unrestricted
DagDok: guide to UN documentation
Created by the Dag Hammarskjold Library, this resource
presents an overview of the various types of documents and publications
issued by the United Nations and provides guidance on how to work with them.
Provider: Dag Hammarskjold Library, Uppsala University; Access route: unrestricted
UNBIS (UN Bibliographic Information System)
Includes full-text of UN resolutions, voting records of all resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and an index to speech citations.
Provider: Dag Hammarskjold Library, Uppsala University; Access route: unrestricted
United Nations Treaty Collection
Includes information about the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series and League of Nations Treaty Series, the text of recently deposited multilateral treaties and titles of the multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages.
Provider: UN; Access route: unrestricted
UNRIC Library Newsletter
The monthly newsletter from the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe provides information about new UN websites and information material. Current and back issues are available online and the newsletter can be subscribed to.
Provider: UN; Access route: unrestricted
United States
Congressional Record : Permanent Digital Collection “Predecessors” 1789-1997
The Congressional Record is the public account of all legislative debate in the United States Congress. The database also includes its predecessors – the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates and the congressional Globe.
Provider: Proquest; Access route: cam domain/Raven password
Declassified Documents Reference System
A collection of digitised declassified US government documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA and the FBI.
Provider: Cengage; Access route: cam domain/Raven password
THOMAS
Named in honour of Thomas Jefferson, THOMAS was launched by the Library of Congress in January 1995 with the intention of making federal information freely and publicly available. Since then THOMAS has expanded to include, amongst many other congressional publications, Bills, Committee reports, Public laws and the Congressional Record back to 1989.
Provider: Library of Congress; Access route: unrestricted