Library computers have full access to the Times Digital Archive. Library members can also get access from home.
Find other historical newspapers and magazines in our libraries and archives with our periodicals list.
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What is the Times Digital Archive?
Newspapers can be particularly useful if you are researching local and family history.
Times Digital Archive contains every complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2006, including:
- headlines, articles and images
- front pages
- editorial
- birth and death notices
- advertisements and classified ads.
Use the Times Digital Archive at home
Use your library card and PIN to sign into the E-library and go directly to the online reference library page.
After you've signed into the E-library, there will also be a link to the 'Online reference library' on the right of every page.
Library members – full subscriber access
Non-members – limited access
You can search current and archived news on The Times website.
Current newspapers
Search current UK broadsheet and tabloid newspapers over the last ten years and more using:
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