Find your way through House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – 20 June, 15:30

Modern historians: Find your way through House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Monday 20 June (week 8), 15:30-16:45 – BOOK HERE This session will demonstrate the online House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database. The resource includes 200,000+ sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with some supplementary material going back to 1688. This training aims to [...]

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New: Colonial State Papers

Thanks to a generous donation in support of the VHL, we have been able to purchase this database. It is available to Oxford users via OxLIP+. Colonial State Papers provides access to tho usands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included [...]

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New: Confidential Print North America 1824-1961

Thanks to a generous donation in support of the VHL, we have been able to purchase this database. It is available to Oxford users via OxLIP+. This resource gives full-text access to a selection of TNA Colonial Office and Foreign Office papers, reports, dispatches, weekly summaries, etc. The collection covers a broad sweep of history [...]

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