thumb|The New Annual Register (1780, London) The '''New Annual Register''' (subtitled, "Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year...") was an annual reference work, founded in 1780 by Andrew Kippis in London, England. It recorded and analysed the year's major events, developments and trends, throughout the world, as a rival to the ''Annual Register'' appearing from 1758, under the editorship of Edmund Burke.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=11463|title=Gregory, George|first=Philip|last=Carter}}</ref> After Kippis died in 1795 it was taken on by Thomas Morgan (1752–1821).<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Watt|title=Bibliotheca britannica; or, A general index to British and foreign literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swMJAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA683|access-date=14 March 2013|year=1824|publisher=Printed for A. Constable and Company|page=683}}</ref> George Gregory edited it, and changed its Whig politics to Tory at the time of the Addington ministry.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=11463|title=Gregory, George|first=Philip|last=Carter}}</ref> It was published until 1825.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Henry Timperley|author-link=Charles Henry Timperley|title=The Dictionary of Printer and Printing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmxTMABJ9q4C&pg=PA748|access-date=14 March 2013|year=1839|publisher=H. Johnson|page=748}}</ref>
The ''Register'' was published by George Robinson from 1781.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=74586|title=Robinson family|first=G. E.|last=Bentley}}</ref> From 1784 to 1791 William Godwin was writing the British historical section.<ref>Marken.</ref>
==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
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