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The Times Digital Archive is a full image online archive of every page published by The Times (London) from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds - virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level and users may view the article - or the full page upon which it appeared.
The resource covers the entire full text of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985, but it does not include the Sunday Times. It includes 8 million articles spanning 200 years.
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.
