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This page links to documents of historical importance related to the nation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Works
[edit]- Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists, 1765
- Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 11 August 1824
- Observations on the present financial embarrassments (1831) by Montague Gore
- The Tamworth Manifesto, 18 December 1834
- A Plea for the Middle Classes (1848) by Anonymous
- Workhouses and women's work (1858) by Louisa Twining
- Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859) by John Stuart Mill
- British proclamation of neutrality in the American Civil War, 13 May 1861
- Workhouse nursing (1867) by Florence Nightingale
- Farm labourers, their friendly societies, and the poor law (1870) by John Young Stratton
- Great Britain and the Suez Canal (1882) by William Rathbone
- Reform of Parliamentary Procedure (1882) by the National Union of Conservative & Constitutional Associations
- Shall we have a Channel tunnel? (1883) by Horace Courtenay Gammell Forbes
- State directed emigration (1883) by J. F. Boyd
- Our big guns (1886) by Frederick Joseph Bramwell
- The Channel Tunnel: Ought the Democracy to Oppose or Support It? (1887) by Charles Bradlaugh
- Emigration and immigration (1888) by Charles Francis Bastable
- National Life and Character (1893) by Charles Henry Pearson
- Object and Declaration of Principles, 1904
- "The Mercantile Marine," by Evelyn Cecil in The Empire and the century (pp. 318−331), London: John Murray (1905)
- Early English Adventurers in the East (1917) by Arnold Wright
- Great Britain and The Czecho-Slovaks (1919) by Vladimír Nosek
- Letters from England (1925) by Karel Čapek
- British White Paper of Palestine of 1939
- Speech Condemning Massacre of the Jews, 1942
- Speech Supporting Immediate Aid to Jewish Refugees, 1943
- Letter from the War Department to the residents of Tyneham, 1943
- Speech Opposing Area Bombing, 1944
- British Railways (1951), lectures by A. K. Astbury
- Chinese statement on execution of British citizen (2009)
Encyclopedias
[edit]- "Gibraltar," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Gibraltar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Vicariate Apostolic of Gibraltar," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "United Kingdom," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
- "Gibraltar," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
- "United Kingdom," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
- "Gibraltar," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
- "United Kingdom," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)
- "Gibraltar," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)
History
[edit]- Portal:Domesday survey, 1086
- Portal:Crusades
- Putney debates, 1647
- Portal:Glorious Revolution, 1688
- Portal:American Revolution, 1774–1776
- Declaration of Rebellion, 23 August 1775
- Portal:War of 1812
- Portal:Opium Wars, 1839–1860
- Portal:Crimean War, 1853–1856
- Return of Owners of Land, 1873
- Portal:Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
- Portal:Mahdist War, 1881–1889
- Portal:Boer Wars, 1880–1902
- Portal:World War I, 1914–1918
- Portal:World War II, 1939–1945
- Portal:Nuremberg trials, 1946
- The new National Health Service, 1948 by the Central Office of Information
- Portal:Korean War, 1950–1953
- Portal:Invasion of Iraq
- Downing Street memo - minutes of a meeting dealing with the case for war with Iraq, 23 July 2002
- Portal:International military forces in Afghanistan
Constitutional and legislative documents
[edit]- Portal:Constitution of the United Kingdom
- Portal:Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Portal:Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Law of the United Kingdom
- Portal:Treaties with Great Britain
Works of Government
[edit]- Portal:Government of the United Kingdom
- Nineteen Propositions (1642)
- Shooting Homing Pigeons (c.1918)
- Palestine Order-in-Council (1922)
- British White Paper of Palestine 1939
- Agreement relating to Malaysia between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore (1963)
- Lisbon Agreement (1980)
- Freedom of Information Act 2000, 2000
- Cabinet Manual (2011) (external scan)
- British Indian Ocean Territory (Constitution) Order 2004
- Table of Government Orders
Legislative commentary
[edit]Armed forces
[edit]- The supersession of the colonels of the Royal Army (1873) by Augustus Anson
- Great Britain's New Allies-The Czecho-Slovaks (1918) by Vladimír Nosek
- Portal:Royal Navy
Literature
[edit]- Portal:British literature
- Portal:Elizabethan drama
- Portal:Modern British literature
- Portal:The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
Politics
[edit]- Portal:Speeches by British Prime Ministers
- Electoral purity and economy (1882) by Sydney Charles Buxton
- The Egyptian Difficulty and the First Step out of it (1884) by Anonymous
- How contagion and infection are spread, through the sweating system in the tailoring trade (1877) by Peter Shorrocks
- Radicalism, what is it? (c. 1870) by Anonymous
- Reform or revolution (1870s) by Charles Bradlaugh
- Poor Law Administration, its Chief Principles and their Results in England and Ireland as Compared with Scotland (1864) by Edwin Chadwick
Institutions
[edit]Foreign and Commonwealth Office
[edit]- Zionism (1920) edited by G. W. Prothero
- The Crimean referendum - a comparison with the Scottish referendum (2014)
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
[edit]Supranational organisations
[edit]Home Nations
[edit]Genealogy
[edit]- A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry (1891) by John Bernard Burke
- Vol 1 (transcription project)
- Vol 2 (transcription project)
- Debrett's Peerage
- Vol 1 (Peerage and Titles of Courtesy) (transcription project)
- Vol 2 (Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage) (transcription project)
- Dod's Peerage (transcription project)
- Foster's Peerage
- Vol 1 (Peerage) (transcription project)
- Vol 2 (Baronetage and Knightage) (transcription project)
International relations
[edit]- "Our Imperial Interests in Nearer and Further Asia," by Valentine Chirol in The Empire and the century (pp. 728−759), London: John Murray (1905)
- "British Rule in the Sudan," by Sidney Peel in The Empire and the century (pp. 800−808), London: John Murray (1905)