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Iraq
10 Downing Street
Prime Minister Blair

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Policy Iraq
    Sections include: Dossiers ; The Iraqi Threat ; Iraq's Obligations ; The Iraqi ; Regime's Choice ; UNSCR 1441 ; Oil for Food ; Human Rights Abuses ; Northern Iraq ; Iraqi Opposition ; No-Fly Zones ; Myths & Facts ; Links.

Ministry of Defence

  • Iraq: The Military Campaign Objectives - (dead link)

PBS - Frontline - Blair's War (April 2003)
"Tony Blair tried - and failed - to bridge the gap between the U.S. and Europe over Iraq. Now, having risked everything, will his political fate be decided by the battle for Baghdad?"
Sections include: The Prime Minister ; The Fractured Alliance ; The Liberal Divide ; The Failure of Diplomacy ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Tapes & Transcripts.

Guardian Unlimited - The Observer

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UK online - (dead link)
Government gateway to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Government Gateway (English or Welsh)
"The Government Gateway is the web site you use to register for online Government services. It is an important part of the Government's strategy of delivering 'joined up' Government, enabling people to communicate and make transactions with many parts of Government from a single point of entry."

BOPCRIS
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
"You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents...BOPCRIS currently [March 2002] contains 23,279 references to key British Official Publications 1688-1995."

Office of the e-Envoy - (dead link)

  • e-Commerce - (dead link)
  • e-Communications - (dead link)
  • e-Government - (dead link)

10 Downing Street
Prime Minister Blair

  • Legal Basis for Use of Force Against Iraq (17/03/2003)
  • PM outlines vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people (17/03/2003)
  • Recent Speeches and Statements by the PM on Iraq
  • Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States - (dead link) (14 November 2001)
    "The Government has published a further document summarising both the public and newly declassified material linking Usama Bin Laden and the Al Qaida network to the terrorist atrocities of 11 September 2001. It updates the document published by the Prime Minister on 4 October."
  • PM Tony Blair Statement Concerning Military Action - (dead link) (07 October 2001)
  • Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the U.S. - (dead link) (04 October 2001)
    "This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law. Intelligence often cannot be used evidentially, due both to the strict rules of admissibility and to the need to protect the safety of sources. But on the basis of all the information available HMG is confident of its conclusions as expressed in this document."
  • Evidence Presented to Parliament - (dead link) (04 October 2001)
  • Full Text of Prime Minister's Speech to Parliament - (dead link) (04 October 2001)
  • New anti-terrorist measures announced by the Home Secretary - (dead link) (03 October 2001)
  • Prime Minister's meeting with leaders of the Muslim communities in Britain - (dead link) (28 September 2001)
  • Prime Minister pledges aid for Afghan refugees - (dead link) (28 September 2001)
  • The government's annual report 99/00
  • Facts - Manifesto Commitments
    "The Government was elected on a manifesto containing 177 commitments for the five years of the Parliament. This section sets out exactly what we pledged to do, and the progress so far in delivering on each one."
  • [PBS - Frontline - Blair's War (April 2003)]
    "Tony Blair tried - and failed - to bridge the gap between the U.S. and Europe over Iraq. Now, having risked everything, will his political fate be decided by the battle for Baghdad?"
    Sections include: The Prime Minister ; The Fractured Alliance ; The Liberal Divide ; The Failure of Diplomacy ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Tapes & Transcripts.

The Stationery Office - Official Documents

The British Monarchy
The Official Web Site

Cabinet Office

  • UK GovTalk
    "The purpose of this site is to enable the Public Sector, Industry and other interested parties to work together in developing and agreeing policies and standards for e-government. This is achieved through the UK GovTalk RFP and RFC processes. The site also provides repositories for draft and agreed schemas, toolkits, best practice and relevant information for the running of the e-GIF programme."

Home Office
"The Home Office is the government department responsible for ensuring we live in a safe, just and tolerant society by putting public protection at the heart of all we do. We are responsible for the police in England and Wales, national security, the justice system and immigration."

Parliament UK

National Assembly for Wales

Northern Ireland Assembly

Scottish Parliament

Finding Aids

AccessToLaw
Major sections include: United Kingdom ; Commonwealth ; Other Jurisdictions ; Legal Subject Areas ; General Resources
- Inner Temple Library

BOPCRIS: British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
"...currently contains 18,279 references to key British Official Publications 1688-1800 and 1833-1983, and is being developed as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) and The British Library's Co-operation and Partnership Programme.

BritPolitics.com
British Politics
"Here is your point of reference to over a million different texts and thousands of links covering all aspects of the British political system. Explore our encyclopeadia using the links on the lefthand side of the screen. Following these links you'll find downloads, original texts, recommended readings and much, much more!"

British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA)
"...to promote the use of technology in legal education throughout the UK and Ireland."

  • On-Line Materials - (dead link)
    Sections include: Conference Papers ; Technology in the Law School [reports] ; Responses to Government and Funders.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute
"...provides access to the most comprehensive free and up-to-date collection of British and Irish primary legal materials on the internet. As at 14 May 2000, BAILII includes 17 databases covering 5 jurisdictions. The system contains around one gigabyte of legal materials and well over 100,000 searchable documents with about 2.5 million hypertext links."

Direct Access Government (DAG) - (dead link) "...the one-stop shop for business to access regulatory guidance and forms published on government websites."

The Electronic Parliament: Resources for Tracking U.K. Legislation
By Stephen Young, Reference Librarian, The Catholic University of America DuFour Law Library
LLRX.com Feature, November 15, 2001

FLAG Foreign Law Guide Project - (dead link)
"A collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries."
University of London - Institute of Advance Legal Studies - (dead link)

FLAG: The New Internet Gateway to Foreign Law Holdings in the UK National and University Libraries
LLRX.com Feature, July 15, 2002
By Dr. Peter Clinch, Project Manager, Foreign Law Guide (FLAG), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Government on the Web
"This site is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of e-government and the impact of web-based technologies on government. This site is run jointly by the LSE Public Policy Group (London School of Economics and Political Science) and the UCL School of Public Policy (University College London)."

A Guide to the UK Legal System - Updated
By Sarah Carter, Law Librarian, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
LLRX.com Feature, October 1, 2002

Irish Penal Laws
Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery
"The purpose of this site is not to discuss the historical context of the Penal Laws or their enforcement, or their effect, but simply to make the raw material accessible to historians, legal scholars, students, and other interested people...On this site you will find the text of those Penal Laws which were passed in Ireland during the reigns of William and Mary, William III, Anne, and George I and II, that is to say, from 1691 to 1760. In addition, the site contains certain English statutes relating to the status of Irish Catholics."
By M. Patricia Schaffer, JD Columbia University Law School

JURIST UK - The Legal Education Network - (dead link)
Sections include: Learning & Teaching Law ; Research Law ; From the Jurist Network.
Co-edited by Steve Hedley, University Lecturer, Cambridge University Faculty of Law

Just Ask! the Directory - (dead link)
"...provides details of over 15000 solicitors, advice agencies and information providers."

law.com/uk - (dead link)
"...is the most comprehensive, authoritative and topical legal resource available. We started with a team of journalists and lawyers, added the most reliable and respected sources available, put online tools at your fingertips, and developed real-time updates, all to create the definitive website for every legal professional in the UK."

LAWLINKS
Legal Information on the Internet
Sections include: Gateways & Portals ; UK Resources ; UK Government ; Special Legal Topics ; Other Jurisdictions ; European Union ; International Law ; Human Rights ; Private International Law ; Legal Profession & Legal Education ; Legal Publishing ; General Resources.
Compiled by Sarah Carter, Law Librarian, Templeman Library, University of Kent

LawyerLocator.co.uk
"...the legal information site for small and medium sized businesses and private individuals. The site features a comprehensive search directory of law firms to help you locate the law firm or lawyer with the skills you need, in your area, wherever you are in the UK."

Policy Library
"The aim of the Policy Library is to place public policy knowledge in the public domain. Placing policy research and analysis in the public realm enables ordinary citizens and non-governmental organisations to compete and contest the opinions and decisions of civil servants, local government officials and politicians ... There are two main components of the Library. The first is the database of online policy and research papers - which aims to be progressively comprehensive in its coverage - from UK think tanks to think tanks in English speaking world, to policy papers from universities and government research, to foreign language research papers. The second is an attempt in some policy areas to place those papers in context - through subjective literature reviews. The aim of these reviews is to point people in the direction of the most important research and away from the insubstantial or self-serving government puff."

UK Center for Legal Education (UKCLE)

UK Law Journals Directory
 Includes both print and electronic journals.
"This resource has been designed to assist all users to quickly find accurate information about UK law journals. Where applicable, links have been established to on-line information sources such as publishers home pages, electronic contents and abstracts of journals, and to the full text of electronic journals."

UK online - (dead link)
"It is a drive to ensure that everyone in the UK who wants it will have access to the Internet, and to make the UK one of the world's leading knowledge economies...It is a partnership between government, industry, the voluntary sector, trades unions and consumer groups...This website provides general information about UK online as well as descriptions and links to services that are currently available to individuals and businesses."

University of London - Institute of Advance Legal Studies - (dead link)

Selected Government Departments, Documents & Finding Aids

BBC News : UK Confidential
Recently declassified government documents from 1970.

BBC News - UK Politics - The Hutton Report
"An at-a-glance guide to Lord Hutton's report into the death of government weapons adviser David Kelly."

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Official House of Commons inquiry home page.
"That it is expedient that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely the events on Sunday, 30 January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day, taking account of any new information relevant to events on that day."
Mr. Tony Blair's statement to the House of Commons to set up the official inquiry 29 January 1998.
Sections include: What's New ; Hearing Transcripts ; Rulings & Judgements ; Press Notices ; Reports & Statements ; Questions & Answers.

The British Army

British Council

  • Education and Training - (dead link)
    • Education UK
      "...to help international students interested in studying for a UK course or qualification."
    • Education Web Directory - (dead link)
    • Educational Information Service
    • European Resource Centres - (dead link)
      "The European Resource Centres for Schools and Colleges (ERCs) provide teachers and students with information on issues relating to Europe and support the development of the European dimension in the curriculum."
      • European Information on the Web - (dead link)
        "These web sites can be used as a starting point for project and curriculum work and many of them are multi-lingual."
    • Film and Television Department - (dead link)
    • Publications
      "...search for any in-print British Council publications produced in the United Kingdom, from leaflets, books and posters, through to videos and electronic books."
      • Info @ UK - Infoexch - (dead link)
        "...is a monthly bulletin on Information Society developments within the United Kingdom and around the world compiled by the Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), University of Northumbria - (dead link) on behalf of the British Council."


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British Geological Survey (BGS)

British House of Commons Library Research Papers

The BSE Inquiry

Cabinet Office

Central Office of Information - (dead link)

Central Science Library

  • IENICA Database - (dead link) An Interactive European Network for Industrial Crops and their Applications.
    A Project funded by DGXII of the European Commission

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) - (dead link)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Data Protection Commissioner

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Department for International Development (DFID)

  • developments
    The International Development Magazine
  • Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Word for the Poor - (dead link) (December 2000)
  • Halfing World Poverty by 2015: Growth, Equity and Security - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • Livelihoods Connect
    Creating Sustainable Livelihoods to Eliminate Poverty

Department of Education and Employment

Department of Education and Skills
Sections include: Adult Learners ; Employers ; HE Students ; Jobseekers ; Parents ; School Governors ; Teachers ; Young People.

  • National Grid for Learning
    "...is the gateway to educational resources on the Internet. It provides a network of selected links to web sites that offer high quality content and information. Whether you are learning, supporting, teaching or managing, there are resources on the NGfL for you."

Department of Health

  • Health Survey for England - The Health of Minority Ethnic Groups '99 - (dead link)

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) - (dead link)

Department of Trade and Industry

  • Office of Science and Technology - (dead link)
    • Researcher's Forum - (dead link)
      "The interactive discussion forum for researchers based in companies, universities and other research base organisations."

E-government Bulletin
"...the first and best email service covering electronic government, teledemocracy and the information society in the UK and worldwide. The Bulletin is a free, independent publication, aimed at internet users across government, local government, the social sector and their private sector partners."
Formerly Internet Intelligence Bulletin.

e-government: A Strategic Framework for Public Services in the Information Age - (dead link)
Released April 3, 2000

Electoral Commission
"The Commission has been established by Parliament as an independent body to oversee new controls on gift [not tax-deductible]s to and campaign spending by political parties and others. It also has a remit to keep under review electoral law and practice and to promote public awareness of the electoral process."

  • Registers - (dead link)
    • Great Britain Register of Political Parties - (dead link)
    • Northern Ireland Register of Political Parties - (dead link)

Enemy Property
"This site contains summary details of some 30,000 records held at the Public Record Office relating to property in the United Kingdom seized between 1939 and 1945 from commercial organisations and individuals resident in countries with which the United Kingdom was at war."

Environment Agency of England and Wales - (dead link)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Policy on Iraq
    Sections include: Dossiers ; The Iraqi Threat ; Iraq's Obligations ; The Iraqi ; Regime's Choice ; UNSCR 1441 ; Oil for Food ; Human Rights Abuses ; Northern Iraq ; Iraqi Opposition ; No-Fly Zones ; Myths & Facts ; Links.
  • Human Rights Policy Department

Government Department for Education and Employment

Government Fuel Information - (dead link)

Guardian Unlimited - Politics

Health & Safety Executive

HERO - Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK
 "is the national website for higher education in the United Kingdom...aims to provide an up-to-date, accurate, and informative database of links to all the key HE websites on the Internet. With information on HE opportunities, institutions and organisations across the UK, HERO will be a gateway for students, researchers, HE staff and businesspeople."

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

  • e-University
    "...is the working title of a collaborative project by the UK higher education funding bodies to establish a new way of providing HE programmes through web-based learning. The project is designed to give UK higher education the capacity to compete globally with the major virtual and corporate universities being developed in the United States and elsewhere."
  • Universities UK

HM Customs & Excise

HM Stationery Office

  • inforoute - (dead link) "...new gateway to information held by UK Government departments. It provides direct access to the Government's Information Asset Register (IAR).

HM Treasury

Inner Temple Library
"The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court. The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. These are unincorporated associations which have existed since the 14th Century. They play a central role in the recruitment, training and professional life of barristers, holding the exclusive rights to call candidates to the bar of England and Wales."

The Labour Party

Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry Website

Local Government Association

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF)

Ministry of Defence

  • Iraq: The Military Campaign Objectives - (dead link)

National Archival Network for the UK, Public Record Office

A2A: The Access to Archives Project - (dead link) "The Public Record Office is the repository of the national archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom...The PRO is the treasure house of the nation's memory. Included on its 90 miles of shelving are a hugely diverse range of historical documents including returns for parliamentary elections in 1275, lists of Elizabeth I's jewels, Shakespeare's will, Guy Fawkes' confession, and the first American newspaper. There is Captain Bligh's account of the mutiny on The Bounty, Napoleon's post mortem, decrypts of the British Ambassador's despatches describing the start of the Russian Revolution, the abdication instrument signed by Edward VIII, minutes of Churchill's war cabinet and and 617 squadron's account of the busting of the Mohne and Eder dams. The PRO is an invaluable resource for academic researchers, local historians, genealogists and many other groups of readers."

National Archives Learning Curve
"...is an on-line teaching resource, structured to tie in with the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. The Learning Curve contains a varied range of original sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. There are three different types of resource: Exhibitions, Focus Ons and Snapshots. Each has a distinct approach to suit different styles of learning."

National Archives Virtual Museum
"It provides a showcase for some of the treasures at the PROís new Education and Visitor Centre at Kew, including a host of landmark documents from the past 1000 years of British history. Many of these items have never before been on display. Visitors can explore everything from Famous Names to Crime & Punishment, and from War & Defence to Kings & Queens. They can find out surprising facts about famous people - including William Shakespeare, Robin Hood and Sir Elton John - as well as the extraordinary feats of ordinary people."

National Audit Office (NAO)

National Health Service (NHS)

  • National Electronic Library for Health - (dead link) "...for health professionals providing up-to-date best practice information on diagnosis and treatment."

National Statistics
Official UK statistics site

  • StatBase
    "...contains data, and information about those data, from government statistical units across the UK."

Natural Environment Research Council

The Northern Ireland Elections
"Here you will find information about elections in Northern Ireland since 1885, with particular information about the elections held in 2001..."
 By Nicholas Whyte

Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)
Officially the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England

Office of the e-Envoy - (dead link)

  • e-Commerce - (dead link)
  • e-Communications - (dead link)
  • e-Government - (dead link)

Ordnance Survey
Britain's national mapping agency

Patent Office

  • Intellectual Property
    "...the Government-backed home of UK Intellectual Property on the Internet. We hope to bring you all the answers to your questions and all the resources you need to find your way through the IP jungle of Copyright, Designs, Patents and Trade Marks."

Political Parties - (dead link)
Listing from the British Council's Constitutional Reform and Devolution page.

Public Appointments Unit Internet Directory

Public Record Office

  • Public Record Office Virtual Museum
    U.K. National Archives
    "It provides a showcase for some of the treasures at the PROís new Education and Visitor Centre at Kew, including a host of landmark documents from the past 1000 years of British history. Many of these items have never before been on display. Visitors can explore everything from Famous Names to Crime & Punishment, and from War & Defence to Kings & Queens. They can find out surprising facts about famous people - including William Shakespeare, Robin Hood and Sir Elton John - as well as the extraordinary feats of ordinary people."
  • Records of the Security Service (MI5) - (dead link) "The documents relate almost exclusively to the Second World War period, although many of the personal files do include some pre-war papers; most notably those linked with the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and other renegades. The personal files (KV 2) account for the bulk of this release and include Double-cross agents, renegades, German intelligence officers, German intelligence agents and suspected agents..."

Royal Air Force

The Royal Navy

Royal Society of Medicine

The Shipman Inquiry
"Harold Fredrick Shipman was convicted at Preston Crown Court on 31 January 2000 of the murder of 15 of his patients while he was a General Practitioner at Market Street, Hyde, near Manchester and of one count of forging a will. He was sentenced to life imprisonment....Police have also investigated allegations that he may have murdered many more patients while he was a GP in Hyde and Todmorden...On 1 February 2000, the Secretary of State for Health announced that an independent private [now public] inquiry would take place to establish what changes to current systems should be made in order to safeguard patients in the future."

Socialist Party of Great Britain

Tate

  • Tate Britain
     The national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day.
    • William Blake Online
       "This site consists of 90 screens, with 16 audio-recordings, flash animation, a downloadable teacher's pack and other innovative technical features..."
      Sections include: Gothic Artist ; Lambeth's Vale ; Imagination ; Fromidable Works ; Learning Tools.
  • Tate Modern
     Britain's national museum of modern and contemporary art
  • Tate Liverpool
    "...is the home of the National Collection of Modern Art in the North of England and the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art outside London."
  • Tate St Ives
    "...offers a unique introduction to modern art, where many works can be viewed in the surroundings and atmosphere which inspired them...The Gallery also manages the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, which gives a remarkable insight into the work of this great twentieth-century sculptor."

United Kingdom Low Pay Commission

United Kingdom Marine Environmental Data Network (UKMED)



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