State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782

Access on and off campus.

State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. The trial comprises four of the modules:

• Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military and Naval and the Registers of the Privy Council - Part I focuses research on British domestic politics and society in an age punctuated by plots, rebellions, uprisings, and financial crises.
• Part II: State Papers Foreign- Low Countries and Germany - Part II contains the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in the processes of British diplomacy in the Low Countries and Germany through the eighteenth century.
• Part III: State Papers Foreign: Western Europe - Part III includes the State Papers series relating to France, Dunkirk, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, as well as supplementary records of the Levant Company in Aleppo and the Aleppo consulate. It also includes the Royal Letters and Treaties series.
• Part IV: State Papers Foreign: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey - Part IV presents, digitised for the first time, the letters, memorials and treaties pertaining to Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Turkey and the Barbary States.

NB the Library has already purchased access to two of the modules of State Papers Online - Part II and the Stuart and Cumberland Papers, and has other modules currently on trial.

30/06/2020.