17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers 
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Description: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers covers over 200 years of accounts from England, Ireland, and Scotland and a handful of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia. Totaling almost 1 million pages and containing approximately 1,270 titles, the collection includes newspapers, pamphlets, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, proclamations, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The collection is particularly rich in 18th century London newspapers including all the major titles, such as the Daily Courant and the London Gazette.
Also represented are English provincial titles from 1712, such as the Stamford Mercury of 1728, Irish newspapers (the earliest being the Dublin Intelligence of 1691), Scottish ones from 1708 onwards, and many 18th-century American ones too, including the New England Courant (1721-1723), on which Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) worked, before he moved from Boston to Rhode Island after having published the paper's final issue on 25 June 1726.
Coverage: 17th & 18th Centuries
Subject(s)
European Studies
History, Genealogy & Archives
Newspapers (Historical)
Politics & Government
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