History of Parliament supports Big Data for Law

The History of Parliament Trust is one of the project partners on Big Data for Law, one of  twenty-one Big Data projects announced by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts on 6 February 2014. The project, lead by The National Archives, will provide new open data, new tools and new research methodologies for the study of UK law. The History of Parliament has long been interested in the creation of new tools, especially digital resources, for the study of parliamentary and political history in the UK. Our involvement will help the project to better understand the interests and needs of historians, who might, for example, want to explore the evolution of statute law, or the history of legislative language. For more information on the Big Data for Law project, visit: www.legislation.gov.uk/projects/big-data-for-law.