ANN ARBOR – IT Zone member ProQuest Company reported its House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1800 to1901 will now be available to all two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United Kingdom, through funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee and ProQuest.
The online resource, comprised of nearly 151,000 documents and more than seven million pages, is among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the 19th Century. The papers include bills, house papers, command papers, treaties, census data and committee reports.
They allow the study of social, political, economic and foreign policy concerns from the writing of thought leaders like Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, Guglielmo Marconi, John Maynard Keynes and more. The Joint Information Systems Committee is a group of UK higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communications technologies.
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