Blue Book (England)

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Blue Books (Blue books) are in the United Kingdom since 1624 in which the diplomatic negotiations, notes, reports, and especially the correspondence between the Parliament by the government books submitted, the Foreign Office and the representatives of the British Cabinet abroad for a certain Item are printed, named after the blue envelopes of the same.

Its establishment found imitation in other countries, for example in the German gray book or in the white book first communicated to the Reichstag in 1884 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel: Dictionary of the book. Sixth, fundamentally revised edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2002, keyword: colored books. ISBN 3-465-03220-9 .