Dr. Lawrence Goldman received Resource Enhancement funding for this project from the AHRB, employing Stephen White as the Research Assistant to produce a bibliographical database.

The Social Science Association was a highly influential forum for the discussion of social issues between the 1850s and 1880s. Its debates featured leading Victorians, among them prime ministers and other politicians; intellectuals; social reformers; the first British feminists; trades unionists; and civil servants. Approximately five thousand papers were delivered to the Association, published in nearly fifty volumes, but they have been little used by scholars because their contents are largely unknown. The project has produced a bibliography, organised by subject and by speaker, to assist readers in finding some of the most important social commentary of the Victorian era.

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