News from Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems
Cambridge University Library:
The University Library is pleased to announce that it has subscribed to the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England online, published by Scholarly Digital Editions.
The Parliament Rolls are accessible without passwords within the University to staff, students, and library users at http://www.sd-editions.com/PROME/home.html .
Edited by C. Given-Wilson et al, the collection contains the full text and translation of the meetings of the English parliament from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1272 to 1504. All surviving records of the parliaments, including many texts never before published, are given in full, with new scholarly introductions to each parliament. The parliament rolls themselves are freshly transcribed from the original documents, while the transcripts incorporate precise information about the text in the documents (e.g., deleted and unreadable text) never before available.
A link has been added to the University Library e-resources list at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/index.htm .
Negotiations are continuing between ProQuest, the publisher, and
JISC, on behalf of UK universities, on licensing the 19th Century
Parliamentary Papers online for access within the universities.
More information on this is expected in June. Access to the 18th
Century Parliamentary Papers is due to be made available in the course of
the summer.
UPDATE: In fact ProQuest have recently completed the digitization of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1900.