Option of spinning off a task force for philately from this collaboration page with practical support by the BL philately department under discussion. Fæ (talk) 12:48, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Update date range to 17thC to 18thC Y - this is currently incorrect on Gale or other sources so an alternate source needs to be pinned down.
There may be reasonable records of Government debate in 1817 or refer to A History of the British Museum [1]
Create article (or extend current article) on the Burney Collection digitization project, poor evidence of sources but this is the largest example of on-line digitized newspapers available to the public.