Government information

Access

Log in with your University username and password.

Description

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) includes the complete file of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, also known as Sessional Papers or Blue Books, dating from 1715 through to today.
To read the documents online, select the Reading View option under the first page of a document to increase the size of the text.
The search option allows you to restrict your search by date.
The browse option allows you to browse by century - e.g. 18th century or 19th century - as well as general subject headings.

Full text availability

The Library subscribes to the following collections:

• 18th century (1688-1834)
• 19th century (1801-1900)
• 20th century (1901-2003/04 session)
• Hansard (1803-2005)

Platform

Proquest

Access

Free, no login required.

Description

ONS collect, analyse and publish statistics on the United Kingdom economy, population and society.
Browse for statistics on business, industry and trade, economy, employment and labour market, people, population and community.
Find national, regional and local levels statistical reports.

Access

Free, no login required.

Description

ONS collect, analyse and publish statistics on the United Kingdom economy, population and society.
Browse for statistics on business, industry and trade, economy, employment and labour market, people, population and community.
Find national, regional and local levels statistical reports.

Access

Log in with your University username and password.
You will need to register with the UK Data Service to analyse and download data.
If you create an account, the service requires you to renew your account periodically. If you are unable to renew your account, you will need to create a new one. If you are unable to view your existing projects after creating a new account, please contact the UK Data Service by email at help@ukdataservice.ac.uk. They can add your new registration to your existing projects.

Description

UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data and qualitative data.

Access

Free website, no log in required.

Description

Contains over 16.5 million items from America's cultural institutions, ranging from small local history museums to large cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian. Users can search across the whole collection or browse by place, date, contributing institution, topics or themed collections.
You can register for a free account in order to create lists and save searches and items.

Access

Free, no login required.

Description

Digitized book and journal content from the partner library collections, including both in copyright and public domain materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft, as well as through in-house initiatives.

Full text availability

Items marked as Full view.

Access

Free, no login required.

Description

Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All are free to download and read, and redistribute for non-commercial use.

Access

Free website, no log in required to access. You may be required to log in to download high-quality images; tell the site you are from Manchester Metropolitan University when prompted and log in with your University username and password.

Description

Provided by the University of Kent, the British Cartoon Archive is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The archive has over 200,000 cartoon images, dating from 1904 to the present day. Different versions of the same cartoon from sketch to artwork to published versions can be found. You can search by artist, subjects, or people depicted in the cartoons.