Government and Politics

Major reference work.

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Includes Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, House of Lords Papers, Bills of both Houses, Explanatory Notes and Public Bill/Standing Committee Debates. Begins with 2006/07 session and updated daily.

Contains searchable full text of House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports of Committees and Commissioners. Use this or Lawtel, BOPCRIS, or UKOP.

Collection of verbatim reports of debates in the UK Parliament (House of Commons and House of Lords). The database provides links to the contributions of individual MPs and to the history of debates on specific Bills. Records of debates are available from the early 19th century to the present.

Provides links to the websites of all UK government departments and many other agencies and public bodies, including news and communications, statistics and consultations relating to public policy. Formerly known as ukonline.gov.uk.

The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

Official statistical data, both UK and International including IMF and OECD.

Portal of the European Union with access to Web sites of EU institutions and large numbers of EU publications.

Statistical data on development indicators from over 200 countries from 1960 onwards.

The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD iLibrary is OECDs online library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECDs analysis and data.

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service which stores recorded TV and Radio programmes in an archive indefinitely.

Archive of the Mass Observation project which recorded everyday life in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s.

The history of the West Midlands in the 20th century is central to the story of Britain as a multicultural nation but the stories that make up this history remain largely hidden in archive collections. Connecting Histories aimed to release the potential of these collections so that connections can be made between the past and the present and thereby encourage debate about our shared identities, our common sense of belonging and our multiple heritages.

In the Political Extremism and Radicalism series Gale provides insight on unorthodox (by contemporary standards), fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources. This series is made up of two parts: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century; Far-Right Groups in America.

Texts of United Nations and League of Nations treaties, as well as multilateral treaties deposited with the UN.