British Parliamentary publications are valuable primary sources for research into British and dominion history, including Australia.

The Library holds a number of British parliamentary publications in the Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room.

Whenever the Houses of Commons or Lords requires the submission of a report and orders it to be printed, the resulting document is issued in a numbered series of House of Commons papers or House of Lords papers.

British Parliamentary debates are of interest to those studying public issues in Great Britain, particularly social and political history and law.

How to find votes and proceedings of the House of Commons, minutes of proceedings and order papers of the House of Lords, and the journals for each house.

A bill is a proposal for a new law which is debated by Parliament. There are separate sets of bills for both the Houses of Commons and Lords.

A Bill which has received Royal Assent becomes an Act.

Around 10,800 items from the period 1829-1922 ranging from a single page to hundreds of pages and documenting British reactions to particular events, problems and crises, as well as Britain's relations generally with particular countries and regions.

Learn how to access historical gazetteers, Ordnance Survey maps, and early atlases to uncover your family's origins in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

Between 1998 and 2002, people from all over Australia told us their stories as part of the Bringing Them Home oral history project.