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Social Sciences

Our collection covers social sciences disciplines including, but not restricted to anthropology, criminology, economics, education, management and business studies, media studies, politics, psychology, research methods and social policy.

What's available in other organisations?

Historic electoral registers are often held in public libraries, local history collections and/or borough and county archives.  

London Metropolitan Archives has the registers for the London County Council area. 

Others can be traced through Jeremy Gibson's Electoral Registers 1832-1948; and Burgess Rolls: a Directory of Holdings in Great Britain (Bury: Family History Partnership, 2008), a copy of which is kept at the Social Sciences Reading Room Reference Enquiry Desk.