Access

The microforms card catalog, located at the rear of Bostock Library's first floor, provides access to the Parliamentary papers in microformat.

A bibliography/handout entitled "Parliamentary papers, Great Britain", is available at the Reference Desk and contains comprehensive library holdings on this subject.

The British Parliamentary papers held in the Newspapers and Microforms Department are published by the Readex Microprint Corporation in three formats: microprint/opaque, microfilm and microfiche.  Copying facilities are available for all three of these formats on the first floor of Bostock Library.  If you need assistance using the machines, please ask a staff member at the Bostock Library help desk. 

Holdings and Call Numbers

British Sessional Papers, 1731-1906, 1922-1925. (Microprint)
   Call Number: N4583

Shelved by session years.  These are shelved on the second floor of Bostock Library.  A guide to the microprint edition of the British Sessional is shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area, behind the Bostock Library help desk, under the call number z328.42 fI68.  The indexes are arranged alphabetically by subject.  Finding information (located at the end of each entry) includes session date of the paper, the number which the paper bears in each session (in parentheses), and the volume and page number of the Sessional Collection; i.e., 1818 (57.)III.99.

At the beginning of index volumes 2-8 is an alphabetical and classified list of the headings in the volume with page references.  Volume 1 is Hansard's Catalogue and Vreviate of Parliamentary Papers, 1696-1834.  The other seven volumes contain various categories of Parliamentary papers, 1801-1899; i.e., accounts and papers, bills, and reports.

House of Commons. Journals, 1547-1900 (vols. 1-55). (Microprint)
   Call Number: N4582
   Shelved by year and volume.

House of Lords. Sessional Papers, 1806-1859. (Microfilm)
   Call Number: N4884
   Reel guide and checklist shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area under the call number N4884.

Index to the Rolls of Parliament, London, 1832. (Microfilm)
   Call Number: N4291

Command Papers. (Microfilm)
   Call Number: N1591

   1919, v.53, command 8
   1920, v. 51, command 517

Dod's Parliamentary Companion. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: N84

Bills. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S284

Command Papers. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S285

House of Commons Papers. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S286

   1979 to date.
   A monthly index of the Bills, Command Papers, and House of Commons Papers, is shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area under the call numbers: S284, S285, and S286.  It is arranged alphabetically by subject.

House of Commons on Microfiche; Sessional Papers.
   Call Number: S283w