The New Annual Register (subtitled, "Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year...") was an annual
reference work
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, founded in 1780 by
Andrew Kippis
Andrew Kippis (28 March 17258 October 1795) was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.
Life
The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to Carre's Grammar School in Sleaford, Lincolnshire he pas ...
in
London, England
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. It recorded and analysed the year's major events, developments and trends, throughout the world, as a rival to the ''
Annual Register
''The Annual Register'' (originally subtitled "A View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year ...") is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year's major events, developmen ...
'' appearing from 1758, under the editorship of
Edmund Burke
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. After Kippis died in 1795 it was taken on by Thomas Morgan (1752–1821).
George Gregory edited it, and changed its Whig politics to Tory at the time of the
Addington ministry. It was published until 1825.
The ''Register'' was published by
George Robinson from 1781. From 1784 to 1791
William Godwin
William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous fo ...
was writing the British historical section.
[Marken.]
References
*Jack W. Marken, ''William Godwin's Writing for the New Annual Register'', Modern Language Notes Vol. 68, No. 7 (Nov., 1953), pp. 477–479. Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3043660
Notes
{{Serial almanacs, factbooks, and yearbooks about world and country news, facts, and statistics
1780 establishments in England
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