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British Foreign Relations Document Series

British and foreign state papers, 1812-1977

Includes major public documents relating to the foreign affairs of Britain, other countries and international organizations. Searchable digitized versions for 1812-1968 volumes are available on Hein Online.
Call#: Van Pelt Library JX103 .A3

British documents on foreign affairs : reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print.

"The Confidential Print comprises diplomatic dispatches and other papers that, with dates varying from country to country but in general beginning in the 1850s, were printed for limited circulation within the British government. They went to the queen or king, were sent to important embassies abroad, or were circulated to other major departments of government. As its name indicates, the Confidential Print was not available to the public because it included sensitive information."A list of series with brief descriptions is available, but run a title search in Franklin for: British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print to identify locations.

British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914.

Multivolume compilation of documents relating to the origins of World War I. Most of the documents were selectively culled from Foreign Office papers in the Public Record Office.

Call#: Van Pelt Library D505 .G68

Documents on British foreign policy, 1919-1939 / edited by E.L. Woodward and Rohan Butler.

Call#: Van Pelt Library DA566.7 .A18

Documents on British policy overseas, 1945- / edited by Rohan Butler and M.E. Pelly, assisted by H.J. Yasamee.

A descriptive list of published volumes is available. The print texts are often accompanied by supplementary microfilm or CD-ROMs.
Call#: Van Pelt Library DA566.7 .A182
Call#: Van Pelt Library Microbook 21

Great Britain: foreign policy and the span of empire, 1689-1971; a documentary history. Edited with commentaries by Joel H. Wiener. Introduction: J.H. Plumb.

7 volume selective compilation of documents relating to British foreign policy.

Call#: Van Pelt Library DA45 .W53

The Cabinet Papers 1915 - 1977

"The Cabinet is the main body that controls policy and coordinates activities of governmental departments. It is chaired by the Prime Minister and consists of most of the ministerial heads of departments, as well as some additional members. During peacetime it typically consists of 20 members." To use this resource one needs to add documents to the cart as if to purchase them, but there is no charge and the items can be downloaded for free after they are processed.

British Documents on the End of Empire

Based overwhelmingly on previously unpublished material from official British archives in the Public Record Office, the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) presents, for the first time, an extended documentary record of the final stages of Britain's association with the colonies of the formal empire and the countries within an informal empire." A list of published volumes with descriptions is available. The volumes of Series A provide documents relating to general government policies of relevance to the empire as a whole. Series B provides coverage of individual countries. Series C provides archival guides to official sources.

Transfer of power 1942-7; editor-in-chief Nicholas Mansergh, assistant editor E. W. R. Lumby.

12 volume collection of documents on the end of empire and transfer of power in India.

Call#: Van Pelt Library DS480.83 .T7

Blue Books for Colonial British Africa in the Penn Libraries

Blue Books are annual reports of the British colonies. Colonial regulations issued in 1843 state:"The Annual Blue Book containing accounts of the Civil Establishment, of the Colonial Revenue and Expenditure and of various statistical particulars, etc. ... must be filled up with the greatest possible accuracy and the Statistical Tables must be full and complete." This list includes blue books for Africa. Many blue books for non-African colonies can be identified by doing a title search for blue book in Franklin.

Colonial reports - annual. Great Britain. Colonial Office. London, H.M. Stationery Off., 1891-1940.

Annual colonial reports are readable companions to the colonial blue books that provide an account of activities in the colony during the previous year. This record indicates a collection of annual reports covering the years 1927-1936. Additional annual reports can be located by doing a title search in Franklin for colonial reports annual.
Call#: Van Pelt Library 328.42 G797

Century of diplomatic blue books, 1814-1914, Lists edited, with historical introductions / by Harold Temperley and Lillian M. Penson.

Not to be confused with colonial blue books, diplomatic blue books are reports about foreign affairs printed by the government to provide information to members of Parliament. These reports are included in the parliamentary papers for the year in which they were released, and consequently this work serves as an index to documents in the parliatementary papers that concern British foreign affairs.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF Z2009 .T28

Breviate of British diplomatic blue books, 1919-1939.

Continues the work done in A Century of Diplomatic Blue Books for the post World War I era.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF Z2009 .V6

Alexander III and the Policy of Russification, 1883-1886

This collection, as seen through the eyes of the British diplomatic corps in Russia, provides a unique analysis of this "retro-reform" policy, including the increase of revolutionary agitation, deepening of conservatism and changes from agrarian to industrial society, and spread of pan-Slavism, both in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe. The British Foreign Office Records of General Correspondence for Russia, in record class F.O. 65, is the basic collection of documents for studying Anglo-Russian relations during this period of fundamental change.

British Foreign Office--Russia correspondence, 1781-1945 [microform].

Call#: Van Pelt Library Microtext Microfilm 4530

Microfilm guides available in the Microtext guide shelves at DA47.65 B758

British National Archives Documents Related to Colonial America

Guide to British National Archives Documents Related to Colonial America

Colonial State Papers

Consisting of C.O.1 and the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, this is the essential source of government documents about the North American colonies before the mid-18th century.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

Digitize version of ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan 1947-1980: Sections I-III

This resource includes three sections:

Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64
South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1964-71
Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80.

Foreign Office files for China, 1949-1980

Complete UK documents collection in searchable fulltext, being FO 371 (General Correspondence from Political Departments, UK Foreign Office): China and FCO 21 (Registered Files [F and FE series] from Far Eastern Department, UK Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office): China. Section I: 1949-1959, covers from seizure of power by the Communists forces through to Mao Zedong's attempts to implement a Soviet style command economy. Section II: 1957-1966, covers Mao Zedong's rejection of Stalinism, the first Five Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward Campaign and the Socialist Education Movement, changes in China's foreign policy and increasing tensions in Sino-Soviet relations. Section III: 1967-1980 covers the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the arrest of the Gang of Four, the policies of Deng Xiaoping.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1715-present)

India, Raj and Empire

This collection drawn from the National Library of Scotland consists of documents relating to Indian history from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947.

Middle East Online Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970

A sampler of more than 1,000 documents providing more than 200,000 pages of documents from the National Archives UK covering Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Balfour Declaration (1917) to the Black September War (1970-1971). Almost two-thirds of the documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with the Palestine Sessional Papers and other Colonial Office documents and documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Cabinet Office, Admiralty, Office of the Prime Minister, and Treasury. Reproduces in searchable fulltext page images, every document in relevant PRO files with no editorial intervention.

Middle East Online Series 2: Iraq 1914-1974

A sampler of more than 3,000 documents from the National Archives UK selected to illustrate internal politics in Iraq, British colonial and foreign relations with Iraq, and Iraq in world politics during World War I through 1974. Most documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with documents from the Foreign and Colonial Office, War Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Cabinet Office, and Air Ministry included.