LibGuides: Primary Sources: United Kingdom (U.K.): Law & Government

Online Sources: Law

HeinOnline English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) This link opens in a new window
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Subscriber: CNUHeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865. It represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867.

Harvard Law School Library's Crime Broadsides
spans the years 1707 to 1891 (Great Britain)
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"This collection of nearly 600 broadsides highlights crime and capital punishment as seen through the popular press in 18th and 19th century Great Britain. "
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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"A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. "
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1
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This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund Burke, William Wilberforce, William Gladstone, Keir Hardie, Winston Churchill and Aneurin Bevan. (Summary by Carl Manchester)
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2
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This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including William Pitt the Elder, John Stuart Mill, Dadabhai Naoroji, Lady Astor, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and Tony Benn. (Summary by Carl Manchester)
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3
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This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 10 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1601 and 1960. Readings are of speeches originally given by Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, and by parliamentarians Edmund Burke, Herbert Asquith, Winston Churchill, Barbara Castle, Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection
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This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speeches originally given by the 1st Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), the 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder), the 6th Baron Byron (the poet Lord Byron), the 1st Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), the 3rd Earl of Lucan (George Lord Bingham) and the 3rd Earl Russell (the philosopher Bertrand Russell). (Summary by Carl Manchester)

Book Sources: Law

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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings...vols: 1-4; 6-8; 10-11; 13-29; 31-33; and Index by Thomas Bayly Howell
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
for High Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanor from the earliest period to the present time ... from the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the Second, A.D.1163, to ... [George IV, A.D.1820]
vols: 1-4; 6-8; 10-11; 13-29; 31-33; and Index
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings...vols 1-29 by T. B. Howell
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations
English Constitutional Documents by Edward P. Cheyney
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history
State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd by Carrie Jenkins Harris
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
The Statutes of the Realm by Edited by Alexander Luders and others
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Printed by command of his majesty King George the Third, in pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain. From original records and authentic manuscripts

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