Sign of the Times | Free online archive revealed

Julian Sharpe | 1:52 pm | June 16, 2008 | Events, News, Social Media

The Times is set to released its long awaited online archive which contains almost every issue of the Times newspaper for the past 200 years and best of all its Free.

Times Archive is set to includes more than 20m articles, photographs and adverts for all but 100 issues between the years of 1785 and 1985, and will cover events for example Queen Victoria’s coronation, Crimean War and Scott’s doomed expedition to the Antarctic.

Quote from the times

James Harding, The Times editor, said, “The Times Archive is a remarkable resource. It’s a treasure trove for anyone interested in history, whether amateur or professional. From the personal and domestic to unforgettable events of the world stage, from the French Revolution to the Falklands War, it is all here in The Times Archive.”

Anne Spackman, Times Online editor-in-chief, said, “Many newspapers have digitised their archives, but our ambition at the start of this project was to set a gold standard.”