Previously known as the Royal Historical Society Bibliography this is a comprehensive guide to historical writing about the history of Britain, Ireland, and the British overseas from 55BC to the present.

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A major collection of almost 6.4 million facsimile pages from more than 240 national, regional, and local newspapers published between the 1700's and 1950. The collection includes both daily and weekly publications with titles from established country or university towns, the industrial towns of the Midlands and the North, and from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Newspapers associated with particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule have also been included along with penny papers aimed at a working class and clerical readership.

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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers gives access to over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2023, with supplementary material back to 1688. It includes page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.

House of Lords Parliamentary Papers covers the period 1800 to 1910 and includes many bills which originated and were subsequently rejected by the Lords along with the final version of a bill passing from Commons to the Lords.

Public Petitions to Parliament covers the period 1833 to 1918 and gives access to the records of the Select Committee on Public Petitions including the full text of each petition that the Committee transcribed.

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