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From: "Eleanor Roberts" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: news item in the Times
> Sadly this doesn't seem to work, but if anyone else manages it please let
> me know! I found the first link unavailable and the second needed a
> password - trial worked as a user name but not as a password
>
> Eleanor Roberts
'The Times' digital index was certainly working at the office this morning
and it is still working here on my home computer tonight. However, I've
heard of other people also having mixed fortunes in managing to get through
to the site. If anyone understands the technical reasons for these
variations, perhaps they could let us know.
Plenty of fascinating stuff available, with word search possible either by
headline or by the entire text. For example (assuming the software is
reasonably accurate), one can track down the newspaper's first use of the
word 'archivist' [12 June 1817, in connection with an appointment made in
Austrian Poland on behalf of the Austrian emperor], whilst readers on 4 Nov
1786 were invited to marvel at the fact that a child's copy book of
Frederick the Great had been deposited with the Prussian 'archives'. I
trust they've not lost it!
Aidan Jones,
Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, Barrow.
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