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The Times - online
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 11:58 BST (UK) »
Hi All,
Feeling like I'm going round and round in circles and heading towards madness so thought I'd try asking the Rootsters of all knowledge about finding The Times online.

I have some credits left on BNA but they don't include The Times in their list of papers.

I've searched for The Times online and can easily find the following:
subscribe to current news (which I don't want)
buy an old copy (which I don't want)

I'm currently looking for news for April 1958 but have fairly regularly wanted other dates (predominately 1920-1990).  I can get this info elsewhere, but I'm after a website, (even if it means paying, gulp!) where I can reliably access specific dates, etc.

I know it must be out there, and I'm probably just being very dense, but can someone please let know where I can find The Times online.

Ta, muchly
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:05 BST (UK) »
I think you need to login the The Times Archive?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:07 BST (UK) »
I can view The Times online through my County library website using my library card details
(Times Digital Archive)

http://gale.cengage.co.uk/times-digital-archive/times-digital-archive-search.aspx
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:18 BST (UK) »
Hi KGarrad,
Thanks for your reply.  I've found that but it provides no information regarding contents.  If you then click on 'subscriptions' it only talks about current papers and makes no mention of what the archive contains.  Have you used it?  Will it give me what I'm after?

And Hi rosie99,
I did find Gale from another Rootschat thread but again can't make my way to anywhere that enables me to get in.  I have signed up with my local library for their newspaper access but again could only ever get recent news.  Perhaps I need to visit said library for a bit of training. 

Or perhaps I'm missing the flipping obvious!

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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:34 BST (UK) »
What are you hoping to find? Perhaps we can help.
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:43 BST (UK) »
I regularly feel the need to look for 'news' so thanks for the offer (this time I'm after County Council election results for May 1958) but I really want a way to get to The Times.

I've played about with my library access and can get to The Daily Telegraph archive, but can't get to anything before 1990 for The Times and that was found under 'European Newsstream'!
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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:51 BST (UK) »
Are you in the UK ? Can you tell us what county your library is in?
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 02 July 17 13:33 BST (UK) »
My local library service has stopped their sub to the historic Times Online Archive in favour of the Daily Telegraph
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Re: The Times - online
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 02 July 17 13:55 BST (UK) »
My local library service has stopped their sub to the historic Times Online Archive in favour of the Daily Telegraph

How sad  :-\

We still get access in N/C but sometimes it gets oversubscribed and can't get in. I'm assuming that they pay for a certain amount of access/browsing.
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