Basic structure
The files in the ZEN Corpus correspond to individual newspaper issues.
Parameter and other coding
The CD-ROM contains two TEI conformant XML versions encoded in UTF-8 and ASCII. It also contains a text-only version intended for use with software that is not XML-aware.
Coding for years, individual newspaper issues, domain or text classes (foreign news, home news, advertisements, etc.).
The corpus is divided into the following time periods:
- up to 1665
- 1671–1691
- 1701–1721
- 1731–1751
- 1761–1781
- after 1785
Genre covered by corpus
All major English newspapers of the late 17th and the 18th century published in London, including
- The London Gazette, which constitutes about half of the corpus
Thrice-weekly papers
- The London Post
- The English Post
- The Post Man
- The Post Boy
- The Flying Post
Daily newspapers
- The Daily Courant
- The Daily Post
Evening papers
- The Evening Post
- The St. James's Evening Post
"Tabloids"
Advertising papers
- The Daily Advertiser
- The Champion or Evening Advertiser
- The General Advertiser
- The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
- The London (Daily) Advertiser (and Literary Gazette)
- The London Daily Post and General Advertiser
- The London Morning Advertiser
- The Public Advertiser
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