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Scopus is a database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 international journal titles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields. Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references and details on the number of citations each published document has received.

A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards. Where possible transcripts are available. The site also offers guidance on studying political rhetoric.

Policy Commons is a one-stop hub providing access to nearly 2.5 million public policy documents from IGOs, NGOs, think tanks and research centres.

State Papers Online Part One, 1509-1603 is a searchable archive of 16th- and 17th-century State Papers. Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council for research and teaching projects in politics, government, and social, economic, and religious history.

Provides the full text of articles in daily and Sunday newspapers published in the U.K. as well as a number of trade publications.

NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale’s range of historical newspaper collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across the Times Digital Archive, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers and 19th Century UK Periodicals.

Free, online edition of six UK nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, including the Northern Star (1838-1852) and The Leader (1850-1859). Background information on each title is also available.

A free website maintained by the Library of Congress. Visitors can search hundreds of full text newspapers from 1860-1922. The site also has information about American newspapers from 1690 onwards.

NIOPA is fully searchable with browsing and full text functionality and, as a digital archive of Northern Ireland official publications, makes documents available to support the research community, government departments and the wider public.

The official website for the Office for National Statistics and the UK Statistics Authority. Topics covered include Crime and Justice, Government, Health and Social Care and People and Places.

Each year NatCen's British Social Attitudes survey asks around 3,000 people what it's like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run. The survey measures and tracks changes in people's social, political and moral attitudes.

A unified point of access to data from ESDS, Census Programme, Secure Data Service and others which makes it the UK's largest collection of digital social research data. Includes Census data from 1971 to 2011.

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Free access to a collection of UK government public information films from 1945 to the early 21st century.