British Politics and Society

The British Politics and Society archive of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) contains primary source documentation that enhances a greater understanding and analysis of the development of urban centers and of the major restructuring of society that took place during the Industrial Revolution. The archive is composed of a number of individual collections, drawn together from a variety of sources.

Collections in this Archive

• British Cabinet Papers, 1880-1916
• British Labour History Ephemera
• British Trade Union History Collection
• Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth Century England
• Colonial Defence Commission under Lord Carnarvon
• Diaries of Sir Frederic Madden
• Discontent and Authority, 1820-1840
• Economic and Social Investigations in England since 1833: Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Parts One and Two
• Home Office: Disturbances Entry Books
• Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1861
• Home Office: Domestic Entry Books
• Home Office Papers and Records
• Home Office: Post Office Correspondence
• Hue and Cry and Police Gazette
• Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, 1789-1840
• The Oxford Movement: Tractarian Pamphlets at Pusey House: The Halifax and Church Sub-Collections
• Papers of Great British Statesmen and Politicians, Series One: The Papers and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, 1749-1806
• Papers of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Series Two: Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister, 1834-5, 1841-5 and 1845-6)
• People's History: Working Class Autobiographies
• Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820–1850
• Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861: Original Papers and Minute Books
• Radical Politics and the Working Man in England
• Radicals and Reformers in Britain: The Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, 1809-1869
• Rare Freethought Militant 19th Century Books
• Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
• The Whitechapel Murders Papers: Letters Relating to the "Jack the Ripper" Killings
• Working Class Movement Card Catalogue