British Parliamentary Publications

The Library at the University of Southampton has a particularly strong collection of British Parliamentary Publications known as the Ford Collection. The Collection is named after the late Professor Percy Ford, who, with his wife Dr Grace Ford, brought the collection to Southampton and conducted research based on the collection.  The Fords compiled 'breviates' or 'select lists', which form the basis of our catalogue records for those publications received before October 2007.

From a number of breviates, EPPI - Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922 was project funded and 13,700 items were catalogued and the complete papers digitised. The records have been imported into WebCat and the document images are available from InternetArchive. Other papers from the Hartley collection are also included in this collection on InternetArchive, for example the Abbott papers.