Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers
     266 editions published before WWII. Check online catalog under this title
     and choose country and date of publication.

British General Election Campaign Guides, 1885-1950
     JN 1031 .F8 fiche

     Primary source for arguments, questions, evidence and contemporary viewpoints
for electoral struggles of modern Britain.  Years included: 1885, 1892, 1895, 1900,
1906, 1909, 1914, 1922, 1929, 1931, 1935, 1945, 1950.

British Labour History Ephemera, 1900-1926
     14728 film

     More than 1100 pamphlets and other ephemera of British Labour history 
concerning key aspects of social/political life of the period. List of Contents
and Index to Reels in Microforms at Z 7164 .L1 B68.

Burney Collection of Early English Newspapers
     14915 129 reels 

     500 newspaper titles from the early 18th to the early 19th century from
London and England. See Early English Newspapers, Bibliography and Guide
to the Microfilm Collection in Microforms Guides at folio Z 6956 .G6 C68 1983.

Clarendon, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Villiers, 1800-1870
     The Clarendon Papers, 1867-70.
     17235 -1 reel 

     British diplomat and statesman

English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320-1832 in the British Museum
     14941 - 20 reels 

     17,400 items cover five centuries. Chronological arrangement. See Catalogue
of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and
Drawings in the British Museum. NE 55 .L7 A3 1978 v.1-11 Fine Arts.

Fabian Society. 
     Minute Books and Records, 1884-1918.
     485 fiche 

     Documents proceedings, arguments, causes and people of Britain's most famous
political society. Founded 1884 to advance socialism by democratic means.
Instrumental in a host of social changes that helped to create modern Britain.

George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, 1819-1904
     Papers of George 2nd Duke of Cambridge
     14663 - 60 reels

     British field marshall and aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria; Contents given
at beginning of reels.

Great Britain. Colonial Office. Government Publications Relating to the Gambia,
	 1822-1965.
     14681 film

Great Britain. Foreign Office.
     General Correspondence before 1906, Slave Trade, 1816-1892.
     7703 - 11 reels film

     Correspondence between the Foreign Office and the commissioners at the several
stations appointed to carry out articles of the Slave Trade Conventions with
various nations.

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Records, Reports, Correspondence, etc.

     Have material relating to following countries and dates:

Great Britain. General Board Health.
     The Local Reports to the General Board of Health, 1848-1857.
     JS 3068 .L6 - 214 fiche 

     Information on urban and rural social conditions in industrial Britain. Covers
all topics which inspectors believed had an impact on the moral and physical
welfare of the people and their government in 296 localities and 48 countries.
"Complete alphabetical listing on sheet one."

Great Britain. Local Government Board.
     Reports, 1869-1908.    
     HN 382 - 233 fiche

     Presents results of exhaustive social investigations throughout Britain about
housing, occupations, rents, hospital accomodations, food supplies, sanitation,
and public health. Part of a series called Urban and Rural Social Conditions in
Industrial Britain. The guide is Reports to the Local Government Board,
1869-1908, A Complete Listing and Guide to the Harvester Microfiche
Collection. Z 7165 .G8 R46 Microforms Guides.

Great Britain. Prime Minister. Cabinet Reports by Prime Ministers to the
     Crown, 1837-1916.
     12713 - 13 reels

     The only official record of British Cabinet meetings, discussions, and decisions
for the period.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour and Trade Unionism.
     Reports, 1824-1960.
     14706 film

Guildhall Library, London.
     London Directories from the Guildhall Library, 1677-1855. 
     12291 - 60 reels

     City directories provide name/address information for persons and businesses,
along with advertising. Useful for studying particular trades or particular
locales.

Halifax, Charles Wood, 1st Viscount, 1800-1885
     The Hickleton Papers, the Political and Official Papers of Charles Wood,
     1st Viscount Halifax.
     15193 - 35 reels

     English liberal statesman; Chancelor of the Exchequer, 1846-52; Secretary
for India, 1859-1866. Index on reel one.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

     Original Manuscripts and Papers of Thomas Hardy in the Thomas Hardy Memorial
Collection at the Dorset County Museum. Index in Microforms Guides at 
PR 4758 .Z9 O7.

Hill/Adamson Albums in the National Portrait Gallery, 1843-48.
     12705 - 1 reel 

     258 photograph portraits of Robert Adamson (1821-1848) under the direction 
of David Hill (1802-1870) represent the first flowering of photographic art 
in Britain.

Indian National Congress.  Papers and Proceedings, 1885-
     399 fiche

     Text in English and Indian vernaculars

Irish Political and Radical Newspapers of the 20th Century.
     17239 and 14873 film

     Primary sources for the Nationalist movement leading to the Easter rising,
in 1922, to the Partition and the Irish Free State.  We have the papers Irish 
People, 1899-1909 and Cultural/Genereal nationalist.

London Trades Council.
     Minutes and Papers, 1860-1953.
     14708

     See London Trades Council, 1860-1950, a History
HD 6462 .L7 L6.  This title is in Remote Storage; ask at the Information Desk.

Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 1779-1848.
     Melbourne Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle.
     15185 - 51 reels 

     English statesman

Pamphlets and Leaflets of the British Conservative and Unionist Party, 
     1868-1914
     JN 1129 .C1 and part 2 fiche 

     Has materials from the National Union of Conservative Associations, Conservative
Political Center, Conservative Central Office and Conservative and Unionist
Party.

Pamphlets and Leaflets of the Trades Union Congress, 1887-1930.
     HD 6664 .T73 pts. 1-2 fiche 
     Unique file at the Trade's Union Congress headquarters in London.

Pamphlets on Socialism, Communism, Bolshevism, etc., 1849-1930.
     14712 film 

     Assembled by the Library of Congress. Has titles by Engels, Bridges, Debs,
Sinclair, Goldman, and Marx. Each reel has a list of contents.

Radical Periodicals of Great Britain, 1794-1881.
     titles cataloged separately - 23 reels 

     Contain periodicals which document social and political upheavals brought
on by the industrial/economic revolution. type "t=Radical periodical of Great
Britain" into the online catalog to obtain a list of titles in the set.

Social and Political Status of Women in Britain. Rare Politics, Reforming
     and Professional Journals for and by Women, 1870-1928.
     23059 - 17 reels 

     Taken from British Library sources, these journals cover all aspects of
emancipation activities, especially education, work, religion, temperance,
social reform, and the impact of World War I on women's lives. Names of
periodicals included are in the online catalog; type "t=social and political
status of women in Britain."

Tyndall, John, 1820-1893
     Catalog of Correspondence, Journal, and Collected Papers
     QC 16 .T9 - 34 fiche

     British physicist

U.S. Department of State.  
     Diplomatic Instructions of the Department of State to Great Britain, 1801-1906
     20079 film

U.S. Embassy. Great Britain. 
     Despatches from US Ministers to Great Britain, 1791-1906. 
     7863 film

Webb, Beatrice Potter, 1858-1943
     The Diary of Beatrice Webb, 1873-1943.
     HX 243 .W41 A735 - 243 fiche 

    English social reformer, historian, and economist. Index in Microforms Guides.

Revised slightly February 7, 2002 AHW

Revised slightly July 2, 2003 ALV