Research Guides: British Parliamentary Papers: British Relations with Foreign States

Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office plus Other Resources

Sources that provide a wealth of information of British relations with foreign states from 1782 to the present day.

A century of diplomatic blue books 1814-1914
To find diplomatic papers issued by the Foreign Office material was issued as diplomatic "blue books" (not the colonial blue books)
Ref Z2009.T24C
A breviate of British diplomatic blue books, 1919-1939
British Parliamentary papers : a monograph on blue books
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914
Published in 11 volumes.
Documents on British foreign policy, 1919-1939
Published in 3 series and a total of 41 volumes. Some volumes from series 2 and 3 are missing. See the catalog record for items held at UCLA.
Documents on British Policy Overseas
A selection of primary source documents from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the twentieth century post-war era. Documents were published in three series, and each volume in the series were organized around specific themes.

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Supplemental documents accompany series 1: vol. 1-3 & 5 -8 and series 2: vol. 1-4 on microfiche. Ask at the A-Level Information Desk for the microfiche.
National Archives: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1782
Africa through western eyes [microform].
Original manuscripts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library
The Digital South Asia Library
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia. Digital version of statistical abstracts relating to British India from 1840-1920
are included.