This is a reprint edition (1000+ volumes) of the House of Commons Sessional papers covering 1801-1899. The papers included are selected from sessional and command papers and are arranged in several broad subject groupings such as Agriculture, Colonies, Education, Industrial Revolution, Population, Slave Trade, and Trade and Industry.

Separate to the 1,000 Volumes are the nineteenth-century papers on the United States, China, Japan and other significant geographical areas which have been abstracted, arranged by subject and chronologically, and are being published in manageable units in the Area Studies series.