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Keyword(s), Paper Title Keyword(s), Subject Keyword(s), Paper Chair/author, Session, Paper Number, Year range. The Search screen also allows users to limit searches by paper type (House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports, Accounts) or limit searches to papers containing maps/plans, tables/graphs, or photographs/illustrations. Results can be sorted chronologically by session date, alphabetically by title, or by relevance.

All fields support use of a truncation operator (*), Boolean AND/OR/NOT, and proximity operators Near and Followed By. (For example, treaty NEAR.5 Netherlands; health FBY.4 housing).

This resource incorporates Peter Cockton's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900. The subject terms can be included in searches or the entire index can be browsed separately from the Browse 19th Century Subject Catalogue tab.

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Search History functionality facilitates re-execution and combination of search sets (AND, OR and NOT). Document images can be downloaded in their entirety or in part in PDF format and document pages can be downloaded in TIFF format.

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