A guide to the categories linked in the top menu bar.

Home – the front page, with all the blog posts.

About – About me, about the site, about copyright, and acknowledgements to those who have helped the project and provided resources and inspiration.

• Privacy Policy
• Acknowledgements
• Links – Links to miscellaneous blogs, sources, national legislative archives and so forth.

Bibliographies – Bibliographies of digitized collected volumes of statutes, sorted by country and, for the British Isles, by series. For England, Great Britain and the U.K. there is also a chronological bibliography, listing one volume per year. Aside from the English, British and U.K. material, there are sections for Ireland (to 1800), Scotland, India, the Caribbean, amongst others. Although this project is focused on English and British legislation, it is deeply involved with imperial law, hence the foreign collections here. But this is not a promise to start OCRing them.

Find Laws  – a Google powered ‘Custom Search Engine’ that searches the statutes published on this site only.

Statutes – English, Irish, Scottish, British and United Kingdom legislation mainly from proofread OCR, but also collected from around the web. These are included in the search function described above. The top page of this section is a thematic index to the texts.

Slavery Law – British laws, court cases and miscellaneous state and legal materials relating to Africa, the slave trade and enslavement.

Appendices – Supporting information for understanding statutes, their titling, numbering, and so on.

Offsite: For the OCRed texts, correction in progress, see the repository on Github.