Proceedings in Parliament 1624: The House of Commons
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 185742728
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- February
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This online publication comprises the first ever edition of the extant proceedings of the House of Commons for the 1624 English parliament. It consists of edited versions of some 19 contemporary documents, including the official journals of the House of Commons and the private journals of 14 MPs. The text covers the full 84 days of Commons' proceedings and provides scholars with access to over 750,000 words of contemporary parliamentary debate, which are fully searchable via their online platform. The proceedings were published online, via the respected British History Online website - a collection of primary and secondary sources for British and Irish history - in a series of progressive releases between 2015 and 2018.
The project began in the 1960s and ran into the 1970s before it ran out of money. In 2012, Philip Baker began working on the proceedings, as their editor. This involved checking partial transcriptions of sources against the original contemporary documents; transcribing several lengthy contemporary documents, a number of which are in shorthand and law French; producing standardised, edited files for each of the 84 days of Commons' proceedings, which involved modernising the spelling, punctuation and capitalisation; adding relevant editorial apparatus to each day of the proceedings; and overseeing the publication of the proceedings on their online platform.
With the publication of the 1624 proceedings - the only early Stuart parliament not covered in the series of proceedings produced by the (now defunct) Yale Center for Parliamentary History - early modern historians, legal scholars and constitutional experts were finally provided with access to the full, extant record of the Commons' debates during the final parliament of James I.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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