The National Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 National Library of Australia Scholarships.

The National Library is pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2024 Asia Study Grants.

Whenever the Houses of Commons or Lords requires the submission of a report and orders it to be printed, the resulting document is issued in a numbered series of House of Commons papers or House of Lords papers.

The Library holds a number of British parliamentary publications in the Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room.

British Parliamentary publications are valuable primary sources for research into British and dominion history, including Australia.

How to find votes and proceedings of the House of Commons, minutes of proceedings and order papers of the House of Lords, and the journals for each house.

British Parliamentary debates are of interest to those studying public issues in Great Britain, particularly social and political history and law.

A bill is a proposal for a new law which is debated by Parliament. There are separate sets of bills for both the Houses of Commons and Lords.

A Bill which has received Royal Assent becomes an Act.

After sentence, some convicts spent time on a prison hulk awaiting transportation. A prison hulk was a decommissioned ship used for housing prisoners.