Great Britain. Parliament

In library and catalog records, Great Britain. Parliament is a corporate author name used for material issued by the Parliament of Great Britain. That usually includes official publications such as acts, proceedings, reports, and journals connected to the legislature that existed from 1707 to 1801.

The Parliament of Great Britain was created after the union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707. It sat at Westminster and brought together the House of Commons and House of Lords as the central lawmaking body for Great Britain.

Because this is an institutional author rather than a person, there is no personal life story to tell in the usual sense. Readers who see this name on a title page are usually looking at a historical government document—one that captures how laws were made, debated, and recorded in eighteenth-century Britain.