Parliamentary Papers at MU: Other Resources

Podcast containing tours of Parliament, parliamentary events, and famous legislation.

Downloadable ZIP files of Hansard Debates until 2004.

Full text to more than 200 laws enacted by Parliament.

All primary and secondary legislation that has been passed since 1285.

Public Services legislation.

Covers all public, private, and personal acts of Parliament from 1497; House of Lords Papers 1498-1718; House of Commons unprinted papers; unprinted Command Papers; House of Commons Papers 1854-1976; the Lloyd George Papers; and the Bonar Law Papers.

Starts with 1999.

Starts with 2000.

All publications.

Co-hosted by the University of Ulster, Queen's University (Belfast), and other Irish cultural institutions.

May 2005-present, all Command Papers and House of Commons Papers, as well as key Departmental papers, are available for free on the site in PDF format.

Contains 1994-2005 command papers and select others in full-text.

Free access to Old Bailey court records.
Also indexed in C19.

Includes Acts of the Old Scottish Parliament and Scottish Parliament, Statutory Instruments, and Draft Statutory Instruments.

Includes Acts of the Old Irish Parliament, Northern Irish Parliament, and Irish National Assembly.

Includes Measures of the National Assembly, Welsh Statutory Instruments, and Welsh Draft Instruments.

Official government website for Commonwealth issues.

Includes maps of Parliament seating and a government organization graph.

Current Parliament News; mobile friendly.

Historical articles and activities on British history.

Online historic book accessed through Library Catalog record.

Print copy, located at the Law Library.

Members of the Privy Council are often MPs or Lords, however these Acts seem to not be Parliamentary legislation, as the Privy Council advises the monarch.

Full text of many early British documents, both historical and literary, including some laws.

Mostly historical texts, but includes full text of some reform bills, including 1832.

Section on British rule in India that includes speeches and government letters.

Includes some laws and text of the Magna Carta.

Full text of various American British Treaties and Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

See section on "Early Modern Europe, Britain" for text of selected laws, proclamations, and acts.

Full text of some laws, speeches, etc. Note: In Wiki format.

Offers some free and some paid contact, but still serves as a good index to some included Parliament related papers and speeches, Cobbett's Parliamentary History, and Gladstone's Diaries.

The oaths of allegiance to George I, tendered to the nation in the autumn and winter of 1723, represent the last exercise in mass public oath-taking and individual county returns can feature thousands of names (the largest so far identified – the Devon returns – feature some 25000).