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17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers : Information at a Glance
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Resource Type
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Primary, Full Text Documents |
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Subject Area
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History |
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Availability
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Trent - Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER. |
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How to Access
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Click Here to Connect to the Burney Collection. For off campus access, learn how to use the proxy server |
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Description
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers represents the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. This collection helps researchers chart the development of the newspaper as we now know it, beginning with irregularly published transcriptions of Parliamentary debates and proclamations to coffee house newsbooks, finally arriving at newspaper in its current form.
Gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a notable scholar and son of a well-known music historian of the same name, this collection covers more than 200 years of accounts, explanations, and points of views. More than 700 bound volumes of newspapers relate political, educational and economic situations – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relate political, educational and economic situations chosen from more than three dozen cities.
These rare and restricted documents are now available online and students and academics can conduct full-text searches of nearly 1 million pages from approximately 1,270 titles spanning from Parliamentary papers and the London daily news to the latest English humour of the 1600s.
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Notes
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Coverage
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17th and 18th Century |
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Update Frequency
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Last modified: January 17, 2011
Maintained by Information Services, Trent University Library.