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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.

Official publications in the Reading Room

Official publications material on open shelves in the Social Sciences Reading Room consist of: 

UK parliamentary papers  

  • Lambert reprint of the  eighteenth century parliamentary papers - BS.Ref.19 

  • Cobbett, W. Parliamentary history of England … to the year 1803 -  BS.Ref.11 

  • Parliamentary debates 1803-1908  - BS.Ref.12 

  • House of Commons debates from 1909 -  BS.Ref. 13 

  • House of Lords debates from 1909 - BS.Ref.14 

  • Standing Committee debates 1919- 2005/06 - BS.Ref.23 

  • General/Public Bill Committee debates 2006/07-2014/15 - BS.Ref.23 

  • Census Reports 1921-1991 - BS. Ref.8 and BS.Ref.9 

UK legislation 

  • Public and general acts from 1797/98 - BS.Ref.3  

  • Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum - BS.Ref.3a 

  • Local and personal acts  - BS.Ref.4 

  • Private acts 1815-1875 - BS.Ref.2 

  • Private acts  from 1876 (bound with Local & personal acts) - BS.Ref.4 

  • Statutes at Large - BS.Ref.20 

  • Statutory Instruments (Statutory Rules& Orders and Statutory Instruments) from 1890 - BS.Ref.22 

  • Index to Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in England and Wales from 1837 - microfiche cabinet 

Available onsite on request

The following material is stored in St Pancras, London and should be delivered about 70 minutes after you have placed an order. Orders for same day delivery stop at 4:00pm:  

  • UK House of Commons Sessional Papers and Bills - BS.Ref.1 

  • UK House of Lords Sessional Papers and Bills (incomplete set) - BS.96/1 

  • HMSO collection in microformat 1922-1984 - SPR.Mic.A.353 

  • Statutory Instruments Local  1922-1980 -  SPR.Mic.E.349 

  • London Gazette - OGE.70 

  • United Nations (working papers) microformat - SPR.Mic.E.14 

  • Historical Electoral Registers for England 1832-1938 (incomplete microfilmed set) - see Electoral Registers tab. 

  • Privy Council Appeal Cases Papers 1953-2007 - PP.1316 

These collections can only be consulted in the Social Sciences Reading Room. 

Reference staff in the Social Sciences Reading Room will help you to place the requests.