All recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700 are now represented in the file, as are eighty percent of the recorded serials titles for the period 1620-1800. Includes newsbook pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, anonymous ballads, broadsides, songs, advertisements and other ephemera.

ESTC contains English culture, language, and literature published in Great Britain and its dependencies in any language and materials published in English anywhere in the world.