From Parliament Square to Holyrood: historical official publications online

Seminar held in the Edinburgh Training Centre, 16 St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU, on 23rd May 2008.

A seminar aimed at all users of official publications and statistics. The seminar provided an introduction to all the new and exciting historical resources currently available online – from the Pre 1707 Scots Parliament records, early Westminster through to the Holyrood of the present day.

Some of the presentations (ppt.) are available for download - simply click on the hypertext link to view  

Programme

10.35 Parliament’s past online : a review of sources Paul Seaward Director – History of Parliament Trust.

11.05 From archive to internet: producing an online edition of the records of the pre 1707 Scottish Parliament Gillian MacIntosh St Andrews University

11.55 Prototyping Hansard Robert Brook, UK Parliament

1.30 Online Historical Population reports Matthew Woollard – Project Director, Online Historical Reports Project.

2.05 Digitisation of Parliamentary Texts at BOPCRIS Dr Julian Ball, Project Manager, BOPCRIS

2.40 ProQuest Parliamentary Papers Rob Newman, Senior Editor, Proquest CSA