Ohmygod, it's almost like time travel:
Times Online has rolled out an elaborate digital newspaper archive stretching back more than 200 years.The archive includes more than 20m articles from every edition of the Times, bar a small number of damaged issues, from 1785 to 1985.
It includes the Thunderer's coverage of events such as the Battle of Waterloo, the first convicts arriving at Botany Bay and the execution of Marie Antoinette. Other issues cover the 1851 Great Exhibition, the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 and Amelia Earhart's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932.
The archive also includes letters to the editor, photographs and adverts, with each page presented as it was printed in the paper on a parchment-coloured screen.
Ironically, I heard about this in the Guardian.
Look at this:
The Times Archive is here. I know where I'm gonna be whiling away a lot of hours...
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