This page describes the range of 17th- and 18th-century news
books, news pamphlets, and newspapers which are held with other
early printed materials at the British Library's St Pancras
building. These are primarily London titles, but there are also
some British provincial and Irish newspapers which were received
as part of larger donations or purchases. Other categories of
news media are held in the collections of British Library
Newspapers at Colindale, North London. There are also early
newspapers in the Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections, primarily
English-language materials issued in South Asia. Burney
Collection of Early English Newspapers The 700 or so bound
volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the
Reverend Doctor Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest
single collection of 17th- and 18th-century English news media
available at the British Library. The material is overwhelmingly
published in London, although there are also some English
provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and