The London Gazette is one of the official
journals of record of the
British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.
The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving
English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 (
Old Style) as
The Oxford Gazette. This claim is also made by the
Stamford Mercury and
Berrow's Worcester Journal, because the Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage. It does not have a large circulation.