As the 24 November deadline for the restoration of devolved government in Northern Ireland looms, a new website has just been launched, which makes all 93,000 pages of the NI Parliamentary Papers produced between 1921 and 1972 available online for the first time.
Created by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King's College London and the Centre for Data Digitisation Analysis (CDDA) at Queen's University Belfast, the new resource casts a unique and valuable light on political developments within Northern Ireland. The papers were previously held by various institutions as reference only copies, and with no comprehensive subject index were inaccessible and difficult to use.
Now Stormont Papers offers users the opportunity to access this important and intriguing collection of papers and to search by key subjects or people, many of whom are st"This timely new website will both bring the history of Northern Ireland to life and bring it to a new audience."ill involved in the ongoing political discussions today.
Visitors to the site can search either the full text or specific keywords (for example Army, Press or Drunkenness), or they can browse particular debates according to the combined subject index, or they can simply view the volumes.
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