Access to the Times Digital Archive Online is available from the Library via a consortial deal. You can access from the A-Z list of databases or a direct link is here.
First published in 1785, The Times of London is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication and widely considered to be the world’s ‘newspaper of record’. The Times Digital Archive is an online full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785 onwards.