Set archives to display in an unordered list.

Hi All,

Hoping someone here can help me because I am getting my head officially done in.

I’ve got a call to list an archive in my sidebar:

<ul>
<h2>News</h2>
  	<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5&format=html'); ?>
</ul>

But no matter what I try, I cannot get the archives to display in an <li> element.

I’ve followed the advice here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives

and here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_archives

Which led to the development of this:
<?php get_archives('postbypost','5','custom','<li>','</li>'); ?>

But still no list items – the items display but without an list-dot-thing in front.

My sidebar is in a class called:
<div id='menu-left'>

And my CSS is set up to this:

#menu-left ul ul li {
                      list-style-type: circle;
                       color: #333333;
                      }

Which has all other links, pages etc, showing under list-style-type: circle.

But not the archive entries.

Any ideas?