Times Digital Archive 1785–1985
Library computers have full access to the Times Digital Archive. Library members can also get access from home.
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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 1985, including:
- headlines, articles and images
- front pages
- editorial
- birth and death notices
- advertisements and classified ads.
Use the Times Digital Archive at home
If you are a library member, you can use your library card number and personal identification number (PIN) to search the full version of Times Digital Archive from home. Find out how to get a PIN for online services.
If you have any problems accessing this database from home, see our help page on how to use the E-library databases.
Library members
Non-members – limited access
You can search current news and an archive from 1985 onwards on the Times website.
