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Spotlight on Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985

The Times Digital Archive presents online access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th and 20th-century world history and culture.  

Hailed as the world’s “newspaper of record” since 1785, “The Times” (London) is regarded as the most authoritative medium for political, legal, business and social news.

The database includes the complete pages of every issue of The Times from 1785 to 1985 - every headline, article and image - forming a complete chronicle of the period.

The convenient, customizable interface is your ticket through the period’s most significant events in world history. With precise full-text searching and hit-term highlighting, researchers can quickly and successfully retrieve the full-text image of a specific article, or the entire page on which it appears, and have results presented on a single screen.

The level of detail reported in The Times is remarkable - from social news, book reviews, government, business, to sports.

Browse by issue date, story headline, subject, advertisements, and other key search words. In addition, thumbnail images allow users to weigh the importance of search results.

With access to reported events, and Birth, Death and Marriage notices this is a great source of information for Genealogical research.

 
 Example of an article in the Times Digital Archive
Extract of a letter from Windsor, Aug. 3, 1786 


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