Key Resources for Politics
The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
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ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and AbstractsAn indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
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Alexander Street Press Video CollectionAccess to thousands of videos across a wide range of subject areas.
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American Periodicals
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Collections from American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research (APCRL).
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British Election StudyExplaining Britain's electoral behaviour for over 50 years, The British Election Study is a non-partisan, objective independent study providing world-class data and research into the 2015 British general election, and which has covered every British general election since 1964.
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British Political SpeechesAn online archive of British political speeches, searchable by date, party, name or keyword. The archive currently holds texts of contemporary speeches given by Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders, and speeches dating back to 1895.
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Cabinet Papers 1915-1978Digitised and fully searchable records of the British Cabinet from 1915-78.
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Census 2001From National Statistics online.
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Census UKProvides access and links to various Census-related resources and postcode lookup tables. You will need to select log in via your home institution, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list.
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Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)
Full text repository on Eastern Europe, its histories, languages and literatures, and its cultural, social and political realities. Access journals, ebooks and grey literature. UoS LIbrary does not subscribe to this resource, however, there is a large amount of Open Access content available. To access you will need to create an account.
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CIA World Factbook
Information and statistics on the countries of the world.
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Colonial State Papers
Thousands of documents and bibliographic records concerning Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals, the Caribbean and Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
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Communist Party of Great Britain ArchiveAccess to primary sources dating from the 1940s. Includes extensive records of central departments and notes taken at meetings by leading party officials.
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Edward Elgar booksAccess to collections of ebooks on Law and Social and Political Science
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ESRC Census ProgrammeAccess to data and support services allowing users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. Registration required. You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list.
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EUobserverAccess to an independent online newspaper, aiming to support European democracy by giving people the information they need to hold the EU establishment to account.
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House of Commons Parliamentary PapersNow known as UK Parliamentary Papers
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House of Lords Parliamentary Papers 1800-1910Enables researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through an archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.
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House of Lords UK Bills 1901-2005/6Provides access to the bills brought forward in the House of Lords
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House of Lords UK Parliamentary Papers 1901-2005/6House of Lords Parliamentary Papers encompass wide areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, providing evidence of committees and commissions during a time when the Lords in the United Kingdom wielded considerable power.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. Over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters from 1951.
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Kanopy (now via Library Search)You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
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Manchester Political StudiesProvides a collection of 96 books, written by leading names in the field, covering political evens, ideas, movements, roles of government, voters, parties and leaders and the way that these elelments shape society as a whole.
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Nation Digital Archive
150-year archive (1865-present) of reporting opinion and criticism. Primary source material including thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles in America and the world.
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Nexis
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)Containing two collections: British Politics and Society and Romantic Literature (the Corvey Collection).
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of PoliticsThe Oxford Research Encyclopedias contain peer-reviewed, long-form overview articles written and edited by leading scholars. The Encyclopedias are intended to be regularly updated, with new articles and topics being added and authors updating their existing articles.
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Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science ebooks CollectionEbooks on American politics, European Union, international relations, political economy and Russian politics.
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Parallel ParliamentContains information from Parliament UK, Hansard and Gov.uk from 2017 to today
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Parliament.UKThe official website of the UK Parliament
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Border and Migration Studies OnlineOffers a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others
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Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986 covers 1000 years of world history: from politics & warfare, to slavery & revolution
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Debate and Division on the British Left, 1917-1964Contains the personal and political papers of J.T. Murphy, which cover a wide range of subjects, from his imprisonment in 1925 and campaign to become a Member of Parliament to his travels in post-revolutionary Russia and disagreements with the CPGB leadership. Documents detailing his wife Molly's time as a nurse on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War are also included. Together, these materials provide an invaluable insight into the internal debates that plagued the British and European left during the 1920s and 1930s
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Digital National Security ArchiveConsists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
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Mass Incarceration and Prison StudiesPart of the Global Issues Library, this curated database provides a rare breadth of study for students to investigate both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries.
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News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek) (1918 - 2015)An archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century.
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Revolution and Protest OnlineContains a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements.
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Sage Video OnlineProvides access to a variety of educational videos relevant to course curricula in Business & Management, Education, Politics & International Relations. The breadth of video types available support diverse research and learning needs, such as tutorials, in-practice examples, and theory definitions, all fully citable with searchable transcripts. For a user guide, see the SAGE Video Guide box on the right hand column of this page.
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ScopusAbstracts and citations for over 22,800 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 international publishers in science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities
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Security Issues OnlineSecurity Issues Online delves into conflicts, policies, and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history.
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Trade Unions in Crisis: the 1961 ETU Ballot-Rigging ScandalThe ETU ballot-rigging trial was a case brought to the High Court by prominent union members John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple in 1961. They alleged that members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had engaged in "a conspiracy to defraud" in the most recent elections of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), a relatively successful body that represented electricians, wire fitters, and telephone engineers. The judge ultimately ruled in the plaintiffs' favour.
This collection contains verbatim transcripts of the court case. The transcripts provide a unique insight into the CPGB’s influence in the post-war trade union movement. -
UK Parliamentary PapersThe most detailed primary source for twentieth-century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. Covers the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed.
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United Nations Treaties SeriesA collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946.
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Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
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Women and Social Movements, InternationalWomen and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, pamphlets, advice literature, training guides, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, links to other websites, and other ephemera.