17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

When the Reverend Charles Burney, classical scholar and brother of novelist Fanny Burney, died in 1817, the British Museum paid £13,500 to acquire his library, comprising 13,000 books and 700 volumes of newspapers. Burney's collection of various printed press, pamphlets, proclamations and Acts of Parliament now spans over 1,270 titles, and as such is the largest single collection of English news media of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The original papers, fragile with the decay of age, are no longer accessible in the British Library reading rooms, and for many years the only alternative has been archived copies on microfilm....