Records of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey and the Central Criminal Court 1674-1913. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Hansard is a “substantially verbatim” report of what is said in Parliament. Members’ words are recorded, and then edited to remove repetitions and obvious mistakes, albeit without taking away from the meaning of what is said. Hansard also reports decisions taken during a sitting and records how Members voted to reach those decisions in Divisions.
Complete file of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, also known as Sessional Papers or Blue Books, from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes the Hansard reports on parliamentary debates. Date range: 1801-2005
Vassar does not subscribe to the 18th Century module of this database. Earlier and later parliamentary papers are available from the UK Parliamentary Archives. A guide to the Proquest database is also available.
The researcher's canon to navigating nineteenth century Parliamentary papers . The subscription database to access the papers uses Cockton's subject headings to describe the 19th century papers.
Complete set of British Parliamentary papers that relate to Ireland and Irish affairs published during the period of the Act of Union (1801-1922). Includes official reports, testimony, and correspondence about Irish political, religious and economic issues, as well as Irish migration to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and elsewhere. Date range: 1801-1922
Part of DIPPAM (Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration), a partnership of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster