British Historical Sources in the University of Auckland Library

Parliamentary papers, acts, state papers
Personal papers and social history

Parliamentary papers, acts, state papers
Other historical sources

Use The Catalogue to find additional primary sources.

Published editions and reproductions of primary sources will often have the word 'sources' in the subject headings. Examples of subject headings and keywords:

Microforms (microfilm, microfiche, microprint)

Parliamentary papers, acts, state papers - Microforms

Archives of the British Labour Party
National Executive Committee Minutes of the Labour Representation Committee, 1900-1906, and the Labour Party since 1906
1900-1964.
Library copies

British Museum MSS (Cottonion Titus F.1)
Record of Parliamentary Sessions of 1559, 1563, 1566, 1571, 1572, 1576, 1581, 1584, 1586-7
Library copies

Cromwell, Thomas, fl. 1572-1584
Diary for Parliamentary Sessions of 1572, 1576, 1581, 1584
Library copies

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Original Acts (Manuscripts) for the Parliaments of 5 Elizabeth (1562 & 1563) 8 Elizabeth (1566) 13 Elizabeth (1571) 14 Elizabeth (1572)
Journals (Manuscript) for the Parliaments of 5 Elizabeth (1562 & 1563) 8 Elizabeth (1566) 13 Elizabeth (1571) 14 Elizabeth (1572)
Library copies

Great Britain. Prime Minister
Cabinet Reports by Prime Ministers to the Crown
1837-1916.
Library copies

Great Britain. Public Record Office (PRO)
The Complete State Papers Domestic. Series 1, 1547-1625
Library copies

Great Britain. PRO
Unpublished State Papers of the English Civil War and Interregnum (1642-1660)
Library has only part one of the series. Material illustrates the work of the parliamentary committees.
Library copies

Personnel of the Parliament of 1584-1585
Library copies

Politics and Administration of Tudor England: Reproduced from the Lansdowne Collection in the British Library in London
Contents: Lord Burghley's papers; Sir Julius Caesar's papers.
Library copies

British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
Library copies

The Main Papers of the House of Lords
Part 1, 1509-1641. Part 2, Protestation Returns, 1641-1642.
Library copies

The Statutes of the Realm
Text of all laws enacted in Britain between 1225 and 1713.
Library copies

British Sessional Papers
House of Commons
1801-1899 and 1960-1966
Library copies

Journals of the House of Commons
1547-1900
Library copies

Hansard
Great Britain Parliamentary Debates - House of Commons
3rd series 1830-1891
4th series 1892-1908
5th series House of Commons, 1909-1918
5th series House of Commons, 1919-1928
House of Commons, 1928/29-1937/38
5th series House of Commons, 1938/39-1948
5th series House of Commons, 1948/49-1957/58
House of Commons, 1986-2000
Library copies

Hansard
Great Britain Parliamentary Debates - House of Lords
5th series House of Lords, 1909-1918
1947-1975
1978-1998
Library copies

Parliamentary Papers online

British Parliamentary Papers microfiche
Nineteenth-century subject set; Bills; Command Papers; Sessional Papers, House of Commons; Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons; Journal, House of Commons; Parliamentary Debates, House of Lords.
Offsite Archival Storage.

Personal papers and social history - Microforms

Coke, Sir Edward, 1552-1634
Papers
Personal and political papers of Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England 1613-1617.
Library copies

Holkham Estate
Seventeenth Century Holkham Estate Deeds
Records comprise part of the Holkham muniments. Group 1, Holkham 1579-1641, concerning Norfolk County business.
Library copies

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of. 1532-1588
Dudley Papers
Papers of one of Elizabeth I’s favourites at Court.
Library copies

Oxford University. Bodleian Library. MSS (Tanner 393)
Commonplace Book, 1571-1577
Anonymous diary.
Library copies

Witchcraft in Europe and America
Comprises 1045 individual titles from a plethora of sources and covering the fifteenth-century through to the twentieth-century, exploring the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives.
Library copies

Working Women in Victorian Britain, 1850-1910
The diaries and letters of Arthur J. Munby (1828-1910) and Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909). Cullwick was first the servant, and later (secretly) the wife of Munby, an ‘ethnologist’ fascinated by working-class women.
Library copies

Records of an English Village. Earls Colne 1400-1750
Comprises the State, Estate, and Church records of the Essex village of Earls Colne between 1400 and 1750.
Library copies

British Industry, Labour and Trade Unionism, 1887-1934
Library copies

The Peoples’ History: Working Class Autobiographies
1792-1920
The microfilms contain the full text of the items and the work is based on The Autobiography of the working class: An annotated critical bibliography edited by John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayall.
Library copies

Agricultural Returns for Great Britain 1867-1901
Agricultural Statistics 1902-1938
Agricultural Statistics, England and Wales 1939-1966
Scottish Agricultural Economics 1950; 1967-1980
Library copies

Annual Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England
1839-1920
Library copies

Census of Production of the United Kingdom
1907-1967
Library copies

Urban and Rural Social Conditions in Industrial Britain: The Local Reports to the General Board of Health, 1848-1857
Library copies

Books

Parliamentary papers, acts, state papers - Books

Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900
Library copies

Journals of the House of Lords
1509-1980 with gaps.
Library copies

Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords
1509-1826.
Library copies

Commons Debates, 1621
Comprises more than nine separate accounts of the debates in the House of Commons during the parliament of 1621.
Library copies

Journals of the House of Commons
1547-1984 with gaps, 240 volumes.
Library copies

Calendar of the Close Rolls
1227 (Henry III)-1485 (Richard III)
Library copies

Calendar of Patent Rolls
1216 (Henry III)-1582 (Elizabeth I)
Library copies

Calendars of State Papers
Library copies

Tudor Royal Proclamations
1485-1603
Library copies

The History of Parliament
The House of Commons
1386-1820, ongoing
Lists constituencies and biographical details of members.
Library copies

British and Foreign State Papers
1812 (George III)-1977 (Elizabeth II)
Miscellaneous documents relating to Britain and foreign powers. Includes the text of many treaties.
Library copies

Documents on British Policy Overseas
1945-1952
Papers concerning Britain's place in the world in the aftermath of World War II.
Library copies

British Documents on Foreign Affairs
Series B The Near and Middle East 1856-1914
Library copies

The Labour Government and the End of Empire 1945-1951
The Conservative Government and the End of Empire 1951-1957
Papers charting the British government’s policy during the breakdown of colonial rule.
Library copies

Other historical sources - Books

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
An ongoing series compiling manuscripts held in various British repositories (noble seats, abbeys etc). Some of the documents are reproduced in full.
Library copies

The 1851 Census: A National Sample of the Census Enumerators' Returns
137 microfiche with an introductory guidebook.
Library copies

The Roxburghe Ballads
A collection of miscellaneous popular ballads from the seventeenth-century, some with accompanying woodcut illustrations.
Library copies

Harleian Miscellany
A collection of 'scarce, curious and amusing tracts and pamphlets', mostly from the early-modern period.
Library copies

The Annual Register
1761- (although first year covered is 1758).
Began as a 'view of the history, politicks and literature' of each year but later became a register of world events. The first editor was Edmund Burke.
Library copies

The New Annual Register
1781-1814
A review of the history, politics and literature of the year in the same vein as the entry above.
Library copies

Publications of the Scottish History Society
A collection of miscellaneous works relating to Scottish history from the sixteenth-century to the nineteenth-century.
Library copies

English Historical Documents
Reprints of selected sources from the 6th to 20th centuries.
Library copies

Raphael Holinshed
Holinshed's Chronicles
A 6 volume history of England, Scotland and Ireland written in the sixteenth-century. A collaborative and officially sanctioned work.
Library copies

Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores
Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
99 volumes.
Library copies

The Victoria History of the Counties of England
A series begun in 1904 which is still an ongoing project. It provides an indepth history/national history of each English county. Many volumes are available from British History Online.
Library copies

List and Index Society
Published lists and indexes from the Public Record Office and other public archives in Great Britain.
Library copies

Royal Historical Society and Camden Society publications
A collection of miscellaneous works on British history.
Library copies

Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I, and James I
Various royal and noble documents from the Tudor and early Stuart periods especially concentrating on the reign of Elizabeth I.
Library copies

Alan Macfarlane (ed.)
The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683
The diary of an Essex clergyman kept during the English Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration. Josselin was minister in the village of Earls Colne, the records of which are also available.
Library copies

Sir John Fortescue (ed.)
The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783
Library copies

A. Aspinall (ed.)
The Later Correspondence of George III
1783-1810
Library copies

F. J. Child (ed.)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Library copies

J. S. Farmer (ed.)
Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year A.D. 1800
Library copies

University of Glasgow
The Euing Collection of English Broadside Ballads
Modern transcriptions of the collection of Glasgow book collector William Euing (1788-1874).
Library copies

J. Holloway and J. Black (eds.)
Later English Broadside Ballads
Covers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries.
Library copies

The English Experience
964 supremely eclectic volumes published in facsimile and covering the 'English Experience' between 1475-1640. Many of these are in Early English Books Online.
Library copies

The English Experience: A Descriptive Catalogue
A partial catalogue of the collection.
Library copies

E. S. de Beer (ed.)
The Diary of John Evelyn
1620-1706
The record of a man who lived through the reigns of six monarchs and one republic. Available in several editions.
Library copies

R. Latham amd W. Matthews (eds.)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
1660-1669
Perhaps the most famous diary in the world, an unsurpassed record of political and social life in the early years of the Restoration.
Library copies

W. G. Day (ed.)
The Pepys Ballads
A collection in facsimile of the ballads from Samuel Pepys's own collection.
Library copies

London School of Economics and Political Studies
The New Survey of London Life and Labour
A survey undertaken in 1928 detailing many aspects of working-class life and work, modelled on the 19th Century research of Charles Booth.
Library copies

Henry Mayhew
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts
Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent for the Morning Chronicle during its national survey of 1849-1850. He is regarded by some as the originator of oral history.
Library copies

Compiled by F. Andrewes, University of Auckland Library, February 1996
Created: September 10, 1997

Last updated: December 19, 2011
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