Dates:
17th and 18th Centuries
Description:

The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. The collection covers more than 200 years of accounts from newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and a handful of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia. The original Burney volumes are now in a fragile condition and have been restricted from ordinary reading room use. Up until now, the only access has been through microfilm. This digital collection will put these early newspapers into the hands of scholars and researchers, opening up new areas of study in English history as well as in many other areas.

Materials Indexed: Newsletter Articles, Newspaper Articles, Pamphlets Database Type: Archival Collections, Full Text Collection, Newspaper Collection Interface Language: English Materials Language: English Subject: English, History (World), Literature, News Sources, Primary Sources, Theater -- Reviews & Criticism Broad Category: Humanities, Languages & Literatures, Social Sciences