17Th and 18Th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

Access all the Burney treasures For many titles, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is the only substantial collection of issues available in the world. While many Burney newspapers are well known, other pamphlets and broadsides included in the collection have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collections. Supports all forms of historical research The Burney Collection Newspapers are a primary source of first resort for all forms of historical research related to the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain or the world, including: Political history. Delve into the news coverage of History of advertising. Explore the advertisements the principal events of the English Civil War (including as a developing genre, as well as source of information the execution of Charles I); read about the call for on disparate topics — medicines (quack or otherwise), political reform and the attacks on George III’s goods to be sold, property to be sold or leased, runaway ministers for the terms they had agreed in the Treaty of servants, lost or stolen personal effects and many Paris, which ended the Seven Years’ War; others. and much more. History of theater. Learn from theater advertisements, Economic and business history. Amass and analyze criticism of their repertoire as well as gossip about the all sorts of economic information — prices of stocks players. and shares, shipping information and more. British History of individuals. Unearth a rich source of Literary history. Uncover essays, poems, and more information about individuals, useful to family as substantial works published in parts within both well as social historians, not only in the form of notices newspapers and periodicals and how these worksLibrary were of births, marriages and deaths, but also through the received at the time. many individual men, women, and children (of every History of trades. See how trades are representedNewspapers in social standing) mentioned in British newspapers. the advertisements, including the book trade which is There are aristocrats, gentry, merchants, tradesmen, particularly well documented through advertisements authors, doctors, entrepreneurs, and many others who for forthcoming and already published books, including are the subjects of surprising, morally improving or publication dates and prices. amusing anecdotes. History of the press. Chart the development of the concepts of ‘news’, ‘newspapers’ and the ‘free press’.

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