Subjects: Great Britain, History, Legal History, Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
A large collection of early English news media including newspapers, pamphlets, ephemera, and other early forms of newspapers. The majority were published in London, but there are some English provincial Irish and Scottish papers as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies.
Subjects: Great Britain, History, Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
26,000 pamphlets useful covering key issues of their day. Note that pamphlets were a form of news media. Contains: Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets.
Subjects: Area Studies, Great Britain, History, Journals and Journal Indexes
Contains periodicals published in Great Britain. It includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humor.
Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain
Acts of the U.K. Parliament provides links to the full text of all U.K. Parliament Public General Acts and all Local Acts as they were originally enacted. As an exception The European Communities Act 1972 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 are also available. [Internet resource: free on the Web]
Subjects: Great Britain, History, Legal History
British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Much of the material in this digital library is free, but additional premium content is available by subscription only. The library does not subscribe to the premium content.
Subjects: Great Britain, History, Journals and Journal Indexes, Legal History
Full text of British periodicals from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. We have access to Collection I & II.
Subjects: Great Britain, India, History
East India Company records digitized from the British Library spans 1595 to Indian independence in 1947, and includes royal charters, meeting notes of the Council of India, reports of expeditions and government memoranda.
Subjects: History, Great Britain, Middle East
Digitized files from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office departments and some selections from the Prime Minister's files. Includes diplomatic correspondence, dispatches, meeting minutes, and maps during this case of conflict and upheaval.
Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain
Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses. Commons Hansard covers proceedings in the Commons Chamber, Westminster Hall and Standing Committees. Lords Hansard covers proceedings in the Lords Chamber and its Grand Committees. Both contain Written Ministerial Statements and Written Answers. Daily Debates are published on this website the next working day at 8 am.
Subjects: Great Britain, Legal History
Search all 176 volumes of the English Reports which has English court decisions from various sources from 1220-1867. There is a finding aid and index if you have citations to the original nominative reports. We have the print version in the library.
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Great Britain, Legal History
"The initial release of this collection on HeinOnline contains official publications from the Selden Society, including the Selden Society Annual Series vols. 1-117 (1887-2000), the Supplementary Series vols. 1-13 (1965-2000), and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society. Also included are links to law review articles that discuss the development of early English history, plus English legal history classics."
Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain, Legal History
The Justis UK Statutes database (with JustCite add-on) contains the full text of all Acts of Parliament in England, Wales and Scotland as enacted from 1235 to the present day. UK Statutes is the only statute law database to contain Scottish Acts of Parliament and repealed legislation. All Acts appear as enacted, with links to amended and amending legislation allowing the user to trace the development of the law. A notable feature of the Justis services is the JustCite tabs, which provide users with a visual display of the path of legislation. You can also use this link for JustCite (NB: Georgetown does not subscribe to Justis content other than UK Statutes, JustCite and International Law Reports.)
Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain
"Legislation.gov.uk brings together the legislative content previously held on the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website and revised legislation from the Statute Law Database to provide a single legislation service. Legislation.gov.uk is the official site for UK Legislation as it is originally made (as enacted) and with a latest version, which shows how the legislation has changed. (Internet resource: free on the Web.)"
Subjects: e-Book Collection, Great Britain, Legal History
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries. The Harvard collection contains a vast number of popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes. The overall archive comprising more than 10,000 titles and almost two million pages also contains unique documents from the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. It includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
