LibGuides: Government Documents: Great Britain

Books

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window A comprehensive bibliographic database for 19th-century research and studies. The index provides records for million of documents from books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archival collections. Collections indexed include: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; and Palmer's Index to the Times Availability: Bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1770-1931 Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software) Link to Full-Text options via OpenURL
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window British Foreign and Colonial Offices documents Adam Matthew Digital.Go to Reference # FO 406 for documents on the Midlle East.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window The collection captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. It covers a wide range of subjects including history, geography, arts, literature, law, science, medicine, philosophy, religion and more. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: 1700s

Foreign Office Correspondence (UK): 1906-1966 - Your Archives (Open Access)
The National Archives wiki.
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The National Archives wiki where you can share your knowledge of archival sources and British history.

U.K. Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window A primary source to the historical records of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. It contains parliamentary papers, also known as sessional papers, or blue books from the 18th century to the 21th century, with supplementary materials back to 1688. Papers cover all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: 1688 to 2005 Note: The microfiche collection of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is held at the Audio Visual Section - Reference Department.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey
An index of records for trials that were held at London's central court from 1770-1913.
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An index of records for trials that were held at London's central court from 1770-1913. Records are from the Old Bailey Online project. Both the metadata and full text for the Proceedings since 1770 are searchable in the Nineteen Century Index. The records are displayed as summary data and a few lines of text, with a link to the full transcript in the open access Old Bailey Online site.

The library holds a big collection of foreign government documents on microform. Some are in the Library Catalog under the publishers:

British and Foreign State Papers
Great Britain. Foreign Office. Library; Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Documents on British Foreign Policy
Primary Sources Libguide
Bowling Green State University
Top secret MI5 files of First World War go online
United Nations Treaty Collection
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A collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946.
Wikileaks
World Treaty Index
Contains treaties signed between 1945 and 1999.