Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers extends the coverage of the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) from 1901-2004 using the one seamless interface and allowing researchers to track papers and themes across more than 200 years of official records.
JISC Collections has already purchased the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers on behalf of the UK academic community. This resource extends the coverage of Parliamentary Papers by another 104 years.
The Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers includes the complete file of twentieth century papers, filmed images of 104,902 papers, covering 5.2 million pages of working documents of the British Government from 1901-2004. The digitised collection is based on Chadwyck-Healey’s microfiche collection.
Content is drawn from the HMSO General Alphabetical Indexes covering 1901 to 1979 and the Parliamentary On-Line Information Service (POLIS) database from 1979. POLIS became the Parliamentary Information Management Service (PIMS) in 2005. These indexes have been overlaid with broad subject categories based on the 19th century Subject Catalogue, updated for more recent material.
These official documents encompass all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. Including:
- World War I & II
- independence of Australia, India, Pakistan and African nations
- creation of the BBC, the Welfare State, the Commonwealth
- Cold war
- immigration
- terrorism
- European Union
- Iraq war
Further information is available online.
