Constitution Day? Check. Scottish Independence? Check. Two hundred + years of reporting on the United Kingdom and the world? Check!
With the Times Digital Archive, 1785-2008 you can explore every story, illustration, advertisement, obituary, marriage, and birth announcement in this important daily paper—back to the 18th century.
Celebrating U.S. Constitution Day on September 17th? You can read the reaction to and coverage of the constitutional debates in theTimes. Note the full report of the ratification did not appear in theTimes until November 1, 1787. A bit different from the age of Twitter.
Reading up on the vote for Scottish Independence on September 18th? While the Times coverage doesn’t quite extend back to the union in 1707, you can follow the debates over union and devolution in the paper, with extensive coverage over the growing nationalist movement and the impact of North Sea Oil in the 1970s and 1980s. For contemporary coverage of the independence issue, visit Lexis Nexis Academic, which offers the full text of the Times back to 1985 and up to the current day’s issue.
You can browse the Times Digital Archive by date to find reporting on specific events or search across the full text for words in the story text. You can also limit your search to type of article including advertising, editorials, features, reviews, announcements, and legal, social, political, or entertainment news.
Explore the Times Digital Archive today. It will take you to the origins of World War I, on the march for Indian Independence, debating the abolition of the slave trade or the enfranchisement of women, chasing Napoleon’s navy across the globe, exploring the Antarctic with Shackleton and Scott, seeking the sources of the Nile with Burton and Speke, or just on the hunt for the first robin of spring.
