Palmer's Full Text Online gives students, researchers and the public at large online access to approximately one million articles from The Times; covering 70 years of British and world history.

First hand reports of world history

This exciting resource consists of a fully searchable electronic index to The Times in which each record is linked to a high quality image of the relevant article. Using Palmer's Index to The Times, you can move from the index entry directly to any column of any issue of The Times from 1800 up to 1870.

Researchers will find a huge range of first hand historical coverage, from the first air crossing of the English Channel by hot air balloon to the fall of the French Second Empire. You can see reports of Robespierre's speeches in a matter of seconds. You might choose to examine editorials on the Reform Act of 1832 or reports on the death of Charles Dickens in 1870. Genealogists will find births, deaths, obituaries and wills reported in full, while criminologists will find thousands of detailed accounts of fascinating court cases.

With Palmer's Full Text Online, you find the material you need far more quickly and easily than you would using either the bound volumes or the microfilm. You can locate the article you want in seconds, magnify it on screen, copy the image into your word-processing document or simply print it out.

How is the material organised?
Palmer's Index to The Times provides the indexing framework for the article images. Every column reference in Palmer's is linked to the scanned column.

By using high-quality originals of the newspapers and scanning at the equivalent of 400dpi, the pages you view on screen are detailed, clean and easy to read. Where necessary, the scanned columns are enhanced electronically to provide the highest level of legibility.

Explore world history at first hand
1800 - Sir William Herschel discovers infra-red rays
1812 - First Luddite disturbances
1820 - Revolution in Spain
1832 - First Reform Act passed
1848 - Revolution in Italy
1854 - Start of Crimean War
1857 - Indian Mutiny
1861 - American Civil War
1868 - Meiji Restoration, Japan
1870 - Franco-Prussian war and fall of the French Second Empire

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