Stormont Papers: 50 years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online

Disciplines History, Law
Temporal Terms Modern (19th c. to 20th c.)
Methods and Techniques Automatic recogition, Cataloguing and indexing, Data Analysis, Data Capture, Data publishing and dissemination, Data Structuring and enhancement, Digital document preparation, Generic Searching/linking/visualizing, Image capture, Image processing, Text Encoding, Textual analysis, Web technologies
Contact Paul Ell - cddaatqub [dot] ac [dot] uk
Website http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/index.html
Start/End date January 2006 - January 2007

This project offers access to the Parliamentary Debates of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March 28 1972.

These papers cast a unique and valuable light on the development of the Province. The 92,000 printed pages of Parliamentary Debates are held by few institutions and they have no comprehensive subject index. Hence they have been inaccessible and difficult to use. This project, with the support of academics, archivists and politicians, has taken the Papers and fully digitised them. The resource has been available online since October 2006.

Visitors to the site can search either the full text or specific keywords (for example Prisons, Westminster or Drunkenness), or they can browse particular debates according to the combined subject index, or they can simply view the volumes.

The editorial content on this page is subject to the AUP and is maintained by this project. Please direct comments, and report errors or omissions, to the project contact identified on this page.