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The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) 2010-2011

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The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 provides convenient access to a library of back issues of this renowned newspaper online. By taking the microfilm collection of The Times (London) and producing a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 represents access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th and 20th century history.

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/tda

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The Times is regarded as the most authoritative medium for political, legal, business and social news. Until now backfiles could only be accessed on microfilm.

The Times is regarded as the most authoritative medium for political, legal, business and social news. Until now backfiles could only be accessed on microfilm.

Gale® has taken The Times microfilm collection, scanning all the issues published between 1785 and 1985, and transformed them into high resolution digital format with searchable images. The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) spans nearly a million pages and some ten million articles. To that is added technology that can read the original and sometimes erratic typesetting and locate words or phrases across the centuries. By being online, the Archive is now easily searchable.