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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: FionaO on Sunday 02 July 17 11:58 BST (UK)
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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
Fionaohbuttheweatherislovely
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I think you need to login the The Times Archive?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/
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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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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!
Fionaoh
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What are you hoping to find? Perhaps we can help.
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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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Are you in the UK ? Can you tell us what county your library is in?
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My local library service has stopped their sub to the historic Times Online Archive in favour of the Daily Telegraph
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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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Try joining Lancashire Libraries http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=753371
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Hi ShaunJ,
Thanks for your replies, I thought I'd searched RootsChat to see if others had queried access to The Times but didn't find those two threads! ha ha
I've signed up to become a member of Lancashire Libraries and only feel a twinge of guilt as I'm half Lancs. I'll keep my fingers crossed and eagerly await Mr Postman.
Here's the link if anybody else wants it:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/libraries/join-a-library.aspx
My local library service has stopped their sub to the historic Times Online Archive in favour of the Daily Telegraph
And Dawnish, I think my library must be the same but I'll pop in during the week and double check. It's a shame as I know they are both similar type papers but I always expect (perhaps in error) to find what I'm after in The Times.
Thanks all - very helpful as ever.
Fionao
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Hi Fiona,
I have access to the Times Online Archives as seen in this thread: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=481899.0 (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=481899.0)
However, I am busy this week and won't be able to look anything up until Saturday. If you can not find access to the newspaper report you would like by then, message me on here I can do a look up for you.
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Hi All,
The Lancashire library card arrived at the weekend but haven't had a chance to use it until today. And it's just like magic. I found exactly what I wanted within minutes, so a big thank you and hoorah!
Fionaohitssosatisfyingwhengoodideaworks
(P.s. Clarkey500, sorry but I only saw your message today so thank you for your kind offer anyway.)
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Good to know that the Lancashire route still works!
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I've never managed to make it work for me - had a card for some years, never managed to get it to work.... perhaps mine is a wonky one?
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I think at one stage Lancashire libraries put a stop to those outside the area using the service. I did at one time have access through them & Bedfordshire but have not tried either for a while as I use my own library.
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Lancashire Library Service did ask RC to prevent the offer being circulated.
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I think at one stage Lancashire libraries put a stop to those outside the area using the service. I did at one time have access through them & Bedfordshire but have not tried either for a while as I use my own library.
Still try using the old number, I don't think The Times provider's system is sophisticated enough to know that a ticket has expired.
At one time I was using the first 5 digits from one library service and the last 9 from another :o
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That would certainly be worth trying for anyone who also used to have a ticket with them. They have the same newspapers as I do with Surrey though but they do have some other Lancashire bits which are viewable without membership. I am not surprised that the selection of numbers worked ;D
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My card was from inside Lancs, quite legitimately, when issued - still never worked.