Reference collection

The Library holds a number of British parliamentary publications in the Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room. More information on all aspects of the work and publications of the Parliament can be found on the UK Parliament website.

• Dod's parliamentary companion includes biographies and contact information on members of the Houses of Parliament and the Civil Service. Library holdings are from 1904, with the current edition in the MRR Reference collection at RF 328.42 DOD.
• Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900, by Peter Cockton, provides a comprehensive listing of the entire output of nineteenth century Parliamentary Papers in the form of a thematic subject catalogue. The 5 volume work is held at Rfq 328.42 GRE, and is also available online through the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database.
• Who's who of British members of Parliament : a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources [edited by] Michael Stenton. 4 volumes, at RF 328.410922 W628
• Guide to the records of Parliament by Maurice F. Bond, Clerk of the Records of the House of Lords from 1946 to 1981. A list of the contents is online at the UK Parliament website. RF S 328.42 B711
• Ford Parliamentary Papers series: Professor Ford of the University of Southampton, together with his wife Grace, published material on the classification and analysis of government publications:
  • Select list of British parliamentary papers, 1833-1899 RF 328.42 F711
  • A breviate of Parliamentary papers, 1900-1916 RF S 328.4204 FOR
  • A breviate of Parliamentary papers, 1917-1939 RF S 328.4204 FOR
  • A breviate of Parliamentary papers, 1940-1954 RF S 328.4204 FOR
  • Select list of British Parliamentary papers 1955-1964 RF 328.4204 F711
  • Ford list of British Parliamentary papers 1974-1983 together with specialist commentaries. RFq 328.4204 FOR
  • A guide to parliamentary papers: what they are, how to find them, how to use them RF 328.42 FOR-3
  • A Bibliography of Parliamentary debates of Great Britain, a list of the many reports which have been published. RF 328.42 GRE

Further reading

Reference works

• A guide to British Government publications (1980) by Frank Rodgers
• Erskine May's Treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings, and usage of Parliament (1989)

British politics and political parties

• Westminster's world : understanding political roles (1994) by Donald D. Searing
• Reform in the House of Commons : the select committee system (1993) by Michael Jogerst

C. E Wagstaff & George Baxter, (1841), The arrival of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria at the House of Lords to open the first Parliament of her reign, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136108572

The procession, headed by Lord Cottenham, the Lord Chancellor, is passing through the corridor of the temporary House of Lords erected after the fire of 1834.

Description taken from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.