Access: Accessible off-campus using Athens username and password.

The Burney Collection includes:

• Parliamentary papers from 1603;
• Newspapers from the early 1620s;
• 18th-century London newspapers, including all major titles, such as the Daily Courant (1702 to 1735) and the London Gazette from 1665;
• Periodicals, such as Addison and Steele’s Tatler (1709-1711) and their Spectator (1711-1712);
• English provincial titles from 1712, such as the Stamford Mercury of 1728;
• Irish newspapers, the earliest being the Dublin Intelligence of 1691;
• Scottish newspapers from 1708 onwards;
• Many 18th-century American newspapers, including the New England Courant (1721-1723).