The Times

===1785 to 1890===

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The Times was founded by publisher John Walter (1738–1812) on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/services/press_office/article2085354.ece|title=The Times Editors|last=Lewis|first=Leo|date=16 July 2011|work=The Times|access-date=2 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716130656/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/services/press_office/article2085354.ece|archive-date=16 July 2011|location=London}} Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a Jamaican hurricane. Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture.{{Cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Jwalter1.htm|title=John Walter|last=Simkin|first=John|date=September 1997|website=Spartacus Educational|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626115959/https://spartacus-educational.com/Jwalter1.htm|url-status=live}}{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Walter, John}} At that time, Henry Johnson invented the logography, a new typography that was reputedly faster and more precise (although three years later, it was proved less efficient than advertised). Walter bought the logography's patent and, with it, opened a printing house to produce books. The first publication of The Daily Universal Register was on 1 January 1785. Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to The Times.{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Times |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Times |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=11 September 2016 |archive-date=10 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010221301/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Times |url-status=live }} In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. Walter Sr's pioneering efforts to obtain Continental news, especially from France, helped build the paper's reputation among policy makers and financiers,{{cite web |title=Times, The – Extracts from – Epsom & Ewell History Explorer |url=https://eehe.org.uk/?p=62078 |website=eehe.org.uk |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=4 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704001708/https://eehe.org.uk/?p=62078 |url-status=live }} in spite of a sixteen-month incarceration in Newgate Prison for libels printed in The Times.

The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers. Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven cylinder press developed by Friedrich Koenig (1774–1833).{{cite book|title=American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices: An Historical Reader for Students and Professionals|first1 = W. David |last1 = Sloan |first2 = Lisa Mullikin |last2 = Parcell |isbn=0-7864-1371-9|year=2002|publisher=McFarland & Co. |quote=Koenig had plans to develop a double-feeding printing machine that would increase production, and the publisher of The Times in London ordered two of the double- feeder machines to be built.|url-access=registration |url = https://archive.org/details/americanjournali0000unse_r6h5 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouBxwQElvVQC&pg=PA106|title=A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet|last1=Briggs|first1=Asa|last2=Burke|first2=Peter|date=2009|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-4495-0|pages=106|language=en}} In 1815, The Times had a circulation of 5,000.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/20/business/earlier-media-achieved-critical-mass-printing-press-yelling-stop-presses-didn-t.html |title=How the Earlier Media Achieved Critical Mass |first=D. J. R. |last=Bruckner |date=20 November 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=the circulation of The Times rose from 5,000 in 1815 to 50,000 in the 1850s. |access-date=18 February 2017 |archive-date=1 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701112056/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/20/business/earlier-media-achieved-critical-mass-printing-press-yelling-stop-presses-didn-t.html |url-status=live }}

Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor in 1817. In the same year, the paper's printer, James Lawson, died and passed the business onto his son, John Joseph Lawson (1802–1852). Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform."). The increased circulation and influence of the paper were based in part to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press. Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.Lomas, Claire. "[http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 The Steam Driven Rotary Press, The Times and the Empire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317185723/http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 |date=17 March 2011 }}"

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The Times was one of the first newspapers to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. William Howard Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXu6XL4g4agC&pg=PA2|title=The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq|last=Knightley|first=Phillip|date=5 October 2004|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8030-8|language=en}}{{Cite journal|date=January 1896|title=War Correspondents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aw0HAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA129|journal=The Edinburgh Review|volume=183|issue=375|pages=129}}

The Times faced financial failure in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), The Times became associated with selling the Encyclopædia Britannica using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the Britannica's two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, The Times severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Charles-William-Harmsworth-Viscount-Northcliffe-of-Saint-Peter|title=Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe {{!}} British publisher|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=13 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313064732/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Charles-William-Harmsworth-Viscount-Northcliffe-of-Saint-Peter|url-status=live}}

In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I.Ferguson, Niall (1999). The Pity of War London: Basic Books. p. 217. {{ISBN|978-0-465-05711-5}} On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times, in an editorial, endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

What are these 'Protocols'? Are they authentic? If so, what malevolent assembly concocted these plans and gloated over their exposition? Are they forgery? If so, whence comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in part so far gone in the way of fulfillment?".Friedländer, Saul (1997). Nazi Germany and the Jews. New York: HarperCollins. p. 95. {{ISBN|978-0-06-019042-2}}

In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German appeasement; editor Geoffrey Dawson was closely allied with government supporters of appeasement, most notably Neville Chamberlain. Candid news reports by Norman Ebbut from Berlin that warned of Nazi warmongering were rewritten in London to support the appeasement policy.Gordon Martel, ed. The Times and Appeasement: The Journals of A L Kennedy, 1932–1939 (2000).Frank McDonough, "The Times, Norman Ebbut and the Nazis, 1927–37." Journal of Contemporary History 27.3 (1992): 407–424.

Kim Philby, a double agent with primary allegiance to the Soviet Union, was a correspondent for the newspaper in Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined British Military Intelligence (MI6) during World War II, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, and defected to the Soviet Union when discovery was inevitable in 1963.{{cite book |title= Treason in the blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the spy case of the century |first=Anthony |last=Cave Brown |year=1995 |publisher=Robert Hale |location =London |isbn=978-0-7090-5582-2}}

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Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian E. H. Carr was assistant editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials.Beloff, Max. "The Dangers of Prophecy" pages 8–10 from History Today, Volume 42, Issue # 9, September 1992 page 9 In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times leader sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and the article in a speech to the House of Commons.Davies, Robert William. "Edward Hallett Carr, 1892–1982" pages 473–511 from Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 69, 1983 page 489 As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during that stage of World War II as "the threepenny Daily Worker" (the price of the Communist Party's Daily Worker being one penny).Haslam, Jonathan. "We Need a Faith: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982" pages 36–39 from History Today, Volume 33, August 1983 page 37

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On 3 May 1966, it resumed printing news on the front page; previously, the front page had been given over to small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society. Also in 1966, the Royal Arms, which had been a feature of the newspaper's masthead since its inception, was abandoned.{{cite book|last=Hasler|first=Charles|title=The Royal Arms — Its Graphic And Decorative Development|publisher=Jupiter Books|date=1980|page=[https://archive.org/details/royalarmsitsgrap0000hasl/page/302 302]|isbn=978-0904041200|url=https://archive.org/details/royalarmsitsgrap0000hasl/page/302}}{{Sfn|Stewart|2005|p=63}} In the same year, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson. His Thomson Corporation brought it under the same ownership as The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.{{cite web |first=Rory |last=Carruthers |title=Company history |url=https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/company-history.html |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224042601/https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/company-history.html |website=www.thomsonreuters.com |access-date=11 October 2021}}

An industrial dispute prompted the management to shut down the paper for nearly a year, from 1 December 1978 to 12 November 1979.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/13/newsid_2539000/2539795.stm |date=13 November 1979 |title=1979: Times returns after year-long dispute|work=BBC On This Day |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224042309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/13/newsid_2539000/2539795.stm}}

The Thomson Corporation management was struggling to run the business due to the 1979 energy crisis and union demands. Management sought a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, had the resources, and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch.{{cite web |title=About us |url=https://www.thetimes.com/static/about-us/ |quote=The Times and The Sunday Times were first held under common ownership by Lord Thomson in 1966 as Times Media Limited and were bought by Rupert Murdoch in 1981. Times Media is now part of News UK. Both papers introduced digital subscriptions in 2010 to help ensure a sustainable future for their journalism. |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224040515/https://www.thetimes.com/static/about-us/ |url-status=live |location=London |website=thetimes.com |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en}} Robert Holmes à Court, another Australian magnate, had previously tried to buy The Times in 1980.{{cite book |last1=McIlwraith |first1=John |title=Holmes à Court, Michael Robert (1937–1990) |chapter=Michael Robert Holmes à Court (1937–1990) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holmes-a-court-michael-robert-12647 |via=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en |orig-year=2007 |volume=17 |year=2007 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224035849/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holmes-a-court-michael-robert-12647}}

In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International.{{cite book|title= The History of the Times: The Murdoch years, 1981–2002|first1=Graham|last1=Stewart|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2005|isbn=0-00-718438-7| page=45|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eZZZAAAAMAAJ&q=The+History+of+the+Times:+The+Murdoch+years,+1981-2002}} The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators John Collier and Bill O'Neill. Murdoch gave legal undertakings to maintain separate journalism resources for the two titles.{{cite news | title = Murdoch wins preliminary backing to merge his Times titles | work = BBC News Online | date = 11 April 2019 | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47895062 | access-date = 12 April 2019 | archive-date = 11 April 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411220201/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47895062 | url-status = live }} The Royal Arms were reintroduced to the masthead at about this time, but whereas previously it had been that of the reigning monarch, it would now be that of the House of Hanover, who were on the throne when the newspaper was founded.{{Sfn|Stewart|2005|p=63}}

After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned upon completion of the change of ownership. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement.Stewart, p. 51 One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. Between March 1981 and May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photocomposition. The Times and the Sunday Times were able to reduce their print room staff by half as a result. However, direct input of text by journalists ("single-stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.Hamilton, Alan. "The Times bids farewell to old technology". The Times, 1 May 1982, p. 2, col. C.{{Cite book|title=Good Times, Bad Times|last=Evans|first=Harold|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=1984|isbn=978-0-297-78295-7|location=London|pages= 182}}

Robert Fisk,{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Fisk|year=2005|title=The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East|publisher=Fourth Estate |location =London|pages=329–334|isbn=1-84115-007-X}} seven times British International Journalist of the Year,{{cite news|date=3 December 2005|title=Viewpoint: UK war reporter Robert Fisk|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4393358.stm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051208212035/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4393358.stm|archive-date=8 December 2005|work=BBC News}} resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.Robert Fisk, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/robert-fisk-why-i-had-to-leave-the-times-2311569.html Why I had to leave The Times] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019041959/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/robert-fisk-why-i-had-to-leave-the-times-2311569.html |date=19 October 2017 }}, The Independent, 11 July 2011.

In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on the first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. In 1992, it accepted the use of "Ms" for unmarried women "if they express a preference."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOykn3dMaJIC&q=%22the+times+of+london%22+%22courtesy+titles%22&pg=PA188|title=Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger|last=Block|first=Mervin|date=1997|publisher=Bonus Books, Inc.|isbn=978-1-56625-084-9|language=en}}

In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/11/the-times-has-gone-tabloid-where-will-the-broadsheet-revolution-end/|title=The Times has gone tabloid: where will the broadsheet revolution end?|last=Glover|first=Stephen|date=29 November 2003|website=The Spectator|language=en-US|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229070529/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/11/the-times-has-gone-tabloid-where-will-the-broadsheet-revolution-end/|url-status=live}} Over the next year, the broadsheet edition was withdrawn from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the West Country. Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-the-times-had-to-change-531639.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-the-times-had-to-change-531639.html |archive-date=20 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why the Times had to change|last=Snoddy|first=Raymond|date=1 November 2004|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019}}

On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. According to its leading article "From Our Own Correspondents", the reason for the removal of full postal addresses was to fit more letters onto the page.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/from-our-own-correspondents-st83m3tm08m|title=From our own correspondents|date=6 June 2005|work=The Times|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228223304/https://www.thetimes.com/article/from-our-own-correspondents-st83m3tm08m|url-status=live}}

In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.{{cite conference|title=Minute of the meeting with Mr Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation |book-title=Inquiry into Media Ownership and the News |page=10 |publisher=House of Commons Select Committee on Communications |date=17 September 2007 |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/us.doc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201082014/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/us.doc |archive-date=1 December 2007 }}

In May 2008, printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, and Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/08/newsinternational.rupertmurdoch|title=Fortress Wapping to Waltham Cross as News International moves its presses|last=Tryhorn|first=Chris|date=8 October 2004|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228224254/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/08/newsinternational.rupertmurdoch|url-status=live}}

On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the London 2012 Olympics and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, The Times added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In March 2016, the paper dropped its rolling digital coverage for a series of 'editions' of the paper at 9am, midday, and 5pm on weekdays.{{cite web | last=Rawlinson | first=Kevin | title=The Times drops online rolling news for four editions a day | website=The Guardian | date=30 March 2016 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/30/times-rolling-editions-website-sunday-times-apps | access-date=16 April 2018 | archive-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212454/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/30/times-rolling-editions-website-sunday-times-apps | url-status=live }} The change also saw a redesign of the paper's app for smartphones and tablets.{{cite news | title=The Times and The Sunday Times launch new website and apps | website=News UK | date=30 March 2016 | url=https://www.news.co.uk/2016/03/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-launch-new-website-and-smartphone-apps/ | access-date=16 April 2018 | archive-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327213136/https://www.news.co.uk/2016/03/the-times-and-the-sunday-times-launch-new-website-and-smartphone-apps/ | url-status=live }}

In April 2018, IPSO upheld a complaint against The Times for its report of a court hearing in a Tower Hamlets fostering case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=07966-19|title=07966-19 Water UK v The Times|website=www.ipso.co.uk |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224045459/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=07966-19}}

In April 2019, culture secretary Jeremy Wright said he was minded to allow a request by News UK to relax the legal undertakings given in 1981 to maintain separate journalism resources for The Times and The Sunday Times.{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Jeremy |title=Media Matters:Written statement – HCWS1677 |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-06-27/HCWS1677/ |website=www.parliament.uk |access-date=28 June 2019 |archive-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309160047/https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-06-27/HCWS1677/ |url-status=live }}

In 2019, IPSO upheld complaints against The Times over their article "GPS data shows container visited trafficking hotspot",{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08527-19|title=08527-19 O'Nion v The Times|publisher=IPSO|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=23 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623043452/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08527-19|url-status=live}} and for three articles as part of a series on pollution in Britain's waterways: "No river safe for bathing", "Filthy Business", and "Behind the story". IPSO also upheld complaints in 2019 against articles headlined "Funding secret of scientists against hunt trophy ban,"{{cite web |title=08417-19 Cooney et al. v The Times |url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08417-19 |publisher=IPSO |access-date=11 October 2021 |archive-date=2 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002230133/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=08417-19 |url-status=live }} and "Britons lose out to rush of foreign medical students."{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=04817-19|title=04817-19 Wilson v Sunday Times|publisher=IPSO|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=25 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625102124/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=04817-19|url-status=live}}

In 2019, The Times published an article about Imam Abdullah Patel that wrongly claimed Patel had blamed Israel for the 2003 murder of a British police officer by a terror suspect in Manchester. The story also wrongly claimed that Patel ran a primary school that had been criticised by Ofsted for segregating parents at events, which Ofsted said was contrary to "British democratic principles." The Times settled Patel's defamation claim by issuing an apology and offering to pay damages and legal costs. Patel's solicitor, Zillur Rahman, said the case "highlights the shocking level of journalism to which the Muslim community are often subject".{{cite news |last1=Charlotte |first1=Tobitt |title=Times apologises and pays libel damages to imam who appeared on BBC debate |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-apologises-and-pays-libel-damages-to-imam-who-appeared-on-bbc-debate/ |access-date=14 December 2020 |work=Press Gazette |date=12 December 2019 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120004736/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-apologises-and-pays-libel-damages-to-imam-who-appeared-on-bbc-debate/ |url-status=live }}

In 2019, The Times published an article titled "Female Circumcision is like clipping a nail, claimed speaker". The article featured a photo of Sultan Choudhury beside the headline, leading some readers to incorrectly infer that Choudhury had made the comment. Choudhury lodged a complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) and sued The Times for libel. In 2020, The Times issued an apology, amended its article, and agreed to pay Choudhury damages and legal costs. Choudhury's solicitor, Nishtar Saleem, said, "This is another example of irresponsible journalism. Publishing sensational excerpts on a 'free site' while concealing the full article behind a paywall is a dangerous game".{{cite news |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the-times-publishes-apology-to-sultan-choudhury-obe-15658 |title=The Times publishes apology to Sultan Choudhury OBE |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224052631/https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the-times-publishes-apology-to-sultan-choudhury-obe-15658 |url-status=live |date=30 July 2020 |work=InPublishing |location=Eynsford, Kent, England}}

In December 2020, Cage and Moazzam Begg received damages of £30,000 plus costs in a libel case they had brought against The Times newspaper. In June 2020, a report in The Times suggested that Cage and Begg were supporting a man who had been arrested in relation to a knife attack in Reading in which three men were murdered. The Times report also suggested that Cage and Begg were excusing the actions of the accused man by mentioning mistakes made by the police and others. In addition to paying damages, The Times printed an apology. Cage stated that the damages amount would be used to "expose state-sponsored Islamophobia and those complicit with it in the press. ... The Murdoch press empire has actively supported xenophobic elements and undermined principles of open society and accountability. ... We will continue to shine a light on war criminals and torture apologists and press barons who fan the flames of hate".{{cite news |last1=Sabin |first1=Lamiat |title=The Times pays £30k damages over article defaming Muslim activists |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/the-times-pays-30k-damages-over-article-defaming-muslim-activists |access-date=8 December 2020 |work=Morning Star |date=4 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224054415/https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/the-times-pays-30k-damages-over-article-defaming-muslim-activists}}{{cite news |first=Harroon |last=Siddique |title=Times pays damages to advocacy group falsely linked to Reading killer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/04/times-pays-damages-to-advocacy-group-cage-over-false-claim-of-link-to-killer |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=4 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224054606/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/04/times-pays-damages-to-advocacy-group-cage-over-false-claim-of-link-to-killer |url-status=live}}

Long described as Britain’s "newspaper of record", The Times was forced to correct a false article in January 2025 about electric vehicle (EV) sales, following successful complaint to IPSO.[https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/the-times-was-forced-to-correct-a-misleading-article-claiming-electric-vehicle-demand-is-falling-when-its-actually-rising/ Mortimer J (13 January 2025) The Times Is Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It’s Actually Rising Byline Times]. Retrieved 25 February 2025.

The Times features news for the first half of the paper; the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section, with world news normally following this. The Register, which contains obituaries, a Court & Social section, and related material, follows the business pages on the centre spread. The sports section is at the end of the main paper.

The Times{{'}} main supplement, every day, is times2, featuring various columns.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|title=Literary Research and British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources|last1=McCafferty|first1=Bridgit|last2=Hartsell-Gundy|first2=Arianne|date=2 September 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-5417-6|pages=117|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131721/https://books.google.com/books?id=BcZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|title=Reclaming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear|last=Guldberg|first=Helene|date=7 May 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-22626-8|pages=17|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131625/https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}} It was discontinued in early March 2010,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/17/times-set-axe-times2 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224053122/https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/17/times-set-axe-times2|title=Times set to axe Times2 supplement as staff await news of job cuts|last=Brook|first=Stephen|date=17 February 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/times2-is-axed-five-years-after-launch/|title=Times2 is axed five years after launch|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=2 March 2010|website=pressgazette.co.uk|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=24 February 2024|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20240224050212/https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/times2-is-axed-five-years-after-launch/}} but reintroduced on 12 October 2010 after discontinuation was criticised.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/11/times2-the-times|title=Times revives Times2 supplement|last=Plunkett|first=John|date=11 October 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224052951/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/11/times2-the-times |url-status=live}} Its regular features include a puzzles section called Mind Games. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called T2 and previously Times 2. The supplement contains arts and lifestyle features, TV and radio listings, and theatre reviews. The newspaper employs Richard Morrison as its classical music critic.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/competition/judges/grandfinal/richard_morrison.shtml|title=BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=28 December 2019 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224053512/https://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/competition/judges/grandfinal/richard_morrison.shtml}}

The Game is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results and analysis from Scottish Premier League games. During the FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros, there is a daily supplement of The Game.{{Cite web|url=https://newscommercial.co.uk/brands/the-times/the-game|title=The Game – The Times {{!}} News UK – The Bridge|website=newscommercial.co.uk|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=7 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307131754/https://newscommercial.co.uk/brands/the-times/the-game|url-status=dead}}

The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements.

Beginning on 5 July 2003 (issue 67807){{Cite magazine |date=5–11 July 2003 |title=New! Launch Issue |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=1}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=The Knowledge |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|UCTVXJ119947492}}}} and ending after 17 January 2009 (issue 69535),{{Cite news |date=17 January 2009 |title=Best of Saturday Times : TheKnowledge |work=The Times |page=2 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=69535 |id={{Gale|IF0503958245}}}}{{Cite news |date=24 January 2009 |title=Inside your new Saturday Times |work=The Times |page=3 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=69541 |id={{Gale|IF0503959182}}}} Saturday issues of The Times came with a weekly magazine called TheKnowledge containing listings for the upcoming week (from that Saturday to the next Friday) compiled by PA Arts & Leisure{{Cite magazine |date=5–11 July 2003 |title=[Imprint] |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=3}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=Thisweek |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|PWPZBT215270075}}}} (part of Press Association Ltd{{Cite web |title=Info |url=http://www.pa.press.net/info/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970601123826/http://www.pa.press.net/info/ |archive-date=1997-06-01 |website=PA NewsCentre}}{{Cite web |title=THE PRESS ASSOCIATION GROUP LIMITED |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05322278 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926230729/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05322278 |archive-date=2024-09-26 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Find and update company information |publisher=Companies House}}).{{Non-primary source needed|date=September 2024}} Its taglines include "Your pocket guide to what's on in London",{{Cite news |date=5 July 2003 |title=[Coverline] |work=The Times |page=1 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=67807 |id={{Gale|JRKEEM549392329}}}} "The World's Greatest City, Cut Down To Size", and "Your critical guide to the cultural week".{{Cite magazine |date=6–12 August 2005 |title=The Edinburgh issue |magazine=TheKnowledge |page=1 |edition=London / East England}} Located in: {{Cite news |date=6 August 2005 |title=The Knowledge |work=The Times |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=68459 |id={{Gale|IF0502915383}}}}{{Cite news |date=6 August 2005 |title=The Knowledge Goes to Edinburgh |work=The Times |page=2 |publication-place=London, England |via=The Times Digital Archive |issue=68459 |id={{Gale|IF0502914621}}}}

These supplements were relaunched on 24 January 2009 as: Sport, Saturday Review (arts, books, TV listings, and ideas), Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Playlist (an entertainment listings guide), and The Times Magazine (columns on various topics).{{Cite web|date=13 November 2019|title=Full History of the Times Newspaper|url=https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/the-times-newspaper-history/|access-date=5 November 2020|website=Historic Newspapers|language=en-GB|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202040519/https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/the-times-newspaper-history/|url-status=live}}

The Times Magazine features columns touching on various subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and gardens, or simply writers' anecdotes. Notable contributors include Giles Coren, Food and Drink Writer of the Year in 2005 and Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Bake Off.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/what-nadiya-did-next-mpvpnhv337d|title=What Nadiya did next|last=Carpenter|first=Louise|date=14 November 2015|work=The Times|access-date=28 December 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228221816/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-nadiya-did-next-mpvpnhv337d|url-status=live}}

{{Redirect|The Times Online|the online version of The Beaver County Times|The Beaver County Times}}

The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since 1996, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site provides weekly magazine-like content. There are also iPad and Android editions of both newspapers. Since July 2010, News UK has required readers who do not subscribe to the print edition to pay £2 per week to read The Times and The Sunday Times online.{{cite news|date = 26 March 2010|title = Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm|work = BBC News|access-date = 26 March 2010|archive-date = 13 December 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171213071615/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm|url-status = live}}

Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11671984 |title=Times and Sunday Times readership falls after paywall |work=BBC News |date=2 November 2010 |access-date=2 November 2010 |archive-date=2 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102081233/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11671984 |url-status=live }} In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day.{{cite web |url=http://www.bgb.co.uk/times-online-travel-editor-insight/ |title=Times Online travel editor insight |author=Hindle, Debbie |date=6 April 2009 |publisher=BGB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303043207/http://www.bgb.co.uk/times-online-travel-editor-insight/ |archive-date=3 March 2013 |access-date=11 February 2015}} In October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times{{'}} digital products.{{cite press release|date = 14 October 2011|title = Digital subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times continue to grow|url = http://www.newsint.co.uk/press_releases/digital_subs.html

|publisher=News International|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114030351/http://www.newsint.co.uk/press_releases/digital_subs.html|archive-date=14 November 2012|access-date=11 February 2015}} A Reuters Institute survey in 2021 put the number of digital subscribers at around 400,000, and ranked The Times as having the sixth highest trust rating out of 13 different outlets polled.{{Cite web|last=Nic Newman|date=2021|title=United Kingdom|url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2021/united-kingdom|website=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism|language=en|access-date=5 October 2021|archive-date=5 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005094551/https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2021/united-kingdom|url-status=live}}

The Times Digital Archive is available by subscription.

The Times has had the following eight owners since its foundation in 1785:{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UlOAAAAYAAJ|title=Academic American Encyclopedia|date=1985|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-2008-3|volume=20|pages=19|language=en|chapter=Walter, John|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131607/https://books.google.com/books?id=9UlOAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}

• 1785 to 1803: John Walter
• 1803 to 1847: John Walter, 2nd
• 1847 to 1894: John Walter III
• 1894 to 1908: Arthur Fraser Walter
• 1908 to 1922: Lord Northcliffe
• 1922 to 1966: Astor family
• 1966 to 1981: Roy Thomson
• 1981 to present: News UK (formerly News International, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp, run by Rupert Murdoch){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newscorporationt0000marj|url-access=registration|title=News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change|last=Marjoribanks|first=Timothy|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77535-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newscorporationt0000marj/page/102 102]|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-and-sunday-times-merger-ruled-out-directors-finally-approve-appointments-witherow-and-ivens/|title=Times and Sunday Times merger ruled out as directors finally approve appointments of Witherow and Ivens|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=30 September 2013|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229072923/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/times-and-sunday-times-merger-ruled-out-directors-finally-approve-appointments-witherow-and-ivens/|url-status=live}}

File:John walter.jpg|John Walter, the founder of The Times

File:John Walter II.jpg|John Walter II

File:John Walter 1818–1894.jpg|John Walter III

File:British newspaper and publishing magnate Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe.jpg|Lord Northcliffe

File:Roy Thomson Cropped.jpg|Roy Thomson

File:Rupert Murdoch - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer.jpg|Rupert Murdoch

The Times had a circulation of 70,405 on 5 September 1870, due to a reduction in price and the Franco-Prussian War.The History of the Times. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ifg2AAAAIAAJ The Tradition Established 1841–1884] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131716/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ifg2AAAAIAAJ |date=21 March 2024 }}. 1951. p 303.A M Simon-Vandenbergen. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tE4dAQAAIAAJ The Grammar of the Headlines in The Times, 1870-1970] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103053447/https://books.google.com/books?id=tE4dAQAAIAAJ |date=3 November 2023 }}. AWLSK. 1981. p 67.Martin Walker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XzdaAAAAYAAJ Powers of the Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103053457/https://books.google.com/books?id=XzdaAAAAYAAJ |date=3 November 2023 }}. Adama Books. 1983. p 37. The Times had a circulation of 150,000 in March 1914, due to a reduction in price.J Lee Thompson. Politicians, the Press, & Propaganda. The Kent State University Press. 1999. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gdAGfACAtJQC&pg=PA14 p 14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103054402/https://books.google.com/books?id=gdAGfACAtJQC&pg=PA14 |date=3 November 2023 }}. The Times had a circulation of 248,338 in 1958, a circulation of 408,300 in 1968, and a circulation of 295,863 in 1978.Steve Peak and Paul Fisher (eds). The Media Guide 2001. (The Guardian Media Guide 2001). Ninth Annual Edition. Mathew Clayton. 2000. ISBN 1841154237. p 58. At the time of Harold Evans' appointment as editor in 1981, The Times had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies in comparison to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival, The Daily Telegraph. By 1988, The Times had a circulation of 443,462. By November 2005, The Times sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "quality" newspaper (after The Daily Telegraph, which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period), and the highest in terms of full-rate sales.{{cite news|url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/tables/0,,1665378,00.html |title=National daily newspaper circulation November 2005 |access-date=13 February 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114030359/http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/tables/0,,1665378,00.html |archive-date=14 November 2012 }} By March 2014, average daily circulation of The Times had fallen to 394,448 copies,{{cite web|title=Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/|website=Press Gazette|date=23 January 2017|access-date=28 January 2017|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505185855/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/|url-status=live}} compared to The Daily Telegraph's 523,048,{{cite web|title=The Daily Telegraph – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Daily-Telegraph|publisher=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=17 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117164607/http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Daily-Telegraph|url-status=dead}} with the two retaining respectively the second-highest and highest circulations among British "quality" newspapers. In contrast, The Sun, the highest-selling "tabloid" daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, sold an average of 2,069,809 copies in March 2014,{{cite web|title=The Sun – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Sun|publisher=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=24 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124015618/http://www.newsworks.org.uk/The-Sun|url-status=dead}} and the Daily Mail, the highest-selling "middle market" British daily newspaper, sold an average of 1,708,006 copies in the period.{{cite web|title=Daily Mail – readership data|url=http://www.newsworks.org.uk/Daily-Mail|publisher=News Works|access-date=12 April 2014|archive-date=11 April 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140411235038/http://www.newsworks.org.uk/Daily-Mail|url-status=dead}}

The Sunday Times has significantly higher circulation than The Times, and sometimes outsells The Sunday Telegraph. In January 2019, The Times had a circulation of 417,298{{cite web|title=National newspaper ABCs|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national-newspaper-abcs-mail-titles-see-year-on-year-circulation-lift-as-bulk-sales-distortion-ends/|website=Press Gazette|access-date=10 March 2019|date=14 February 2019|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814194802/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/national-newspaper-abcs-mail-titles-see-year-on-year-circulation-lift-as-bulk-sales-distortion-ends/|url-status=live}} and The Sunday Times 712,291.

In a 2009 national readership survey, The Times was found to have the highest number of ABC1 25–44 readers and the largest number of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.An analysis of The Times reader demographic (based on NMA figures, news agenda and advertising in the paper) can be seen in [http://www.journoblog.com/2009/11/the-times-and-bbc-radio-5-live/ this study] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220103723/http://www.journoblog.com/2009/11/the-times-and-bbc-radio-5-live/ |date=20 February 2010 }}.

The Times is the originator of the widely used Times New Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with Monotype Imaging for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006, The Times began printing headlines in a new typeface, Times Modern. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport. The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet.

{{quote box|The… typeface — The Times New Roman — debuted on October 3, 1932… The design was exclusively available to The Times for one year, and then made available to other customers on October 3, 1933. (Documented in a few places, but the reference I have in front of me is The Monotype Recorder vol. XXXI, no. 247, from September–October 1932. Complicating matters, this was misprinted as being vol. XXI, no. 246.)

This is the big one: the previous face was not known as Times Old Roman. Jeez. Just think about it: why would something be known as "old" whatever before there was a new version? In fact — and this is documented in Printing in the Twentieth Century (published by The Times), The Monotype Recorder, and elsewhere — the various typefaces used before the introduction (The) Times New Roman {{sic}} didn't really have a formal name.

They were a suite of types originally made by Miller and Co. (later Miller & Richards) in Edinburgh around 1813, generally referred to as "modern". When The Times began using Monotype (and other hot-metal machines) in 1908, this design was remade by Monotype for its equipment. As near as I can tell, it looks like Monotype Series no. 1 – Modern (which was based on a Miller & Richards typeface) – was what was used up until 1932.|salign=right|width=50%|Dan Rhatigan, type director{{cite web|url=http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2011/08/it_was_never_ca.html|website=Ultrasparky|title=It was never called Times Old Roman|date=19 August 2011|access-date=13 December 2015|archive-date=12 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012192243/http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2011/08/it_was_never_ca.html|url-status=live}}}}

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In 1908, The Times started using the Monotype Modern typeface.{{cite book|title=A Tally of Types|author=Morison|year=1953|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=15}}

The Times commissioned the serif typeface Times New Roman, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype, in 1931.{{cite book|last=Loxley|first=Simon|title=Type: the secret history of letters |publisher=I. B. Tauris |year=2006|pages=130–131|isbn=1-84511-028-5}} It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticising The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.{{cite book |last=Carter|first=H. G.|others=rev. David McKitterick |chapter=Morison, Stanley Arthur (1889–1967) |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}} Victor Lardent, an artist from The Times' advertising department, created the typeface under Morison's supervision. Morison used an older typeface named Plantin as the basis for his design but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. Times New Roman made its debut in the issue of 3 October 1932.{{cite web |url=http://www.typolis.de/version1/engl/ftimes.htm |title=TYPOlis: Times New Roman |website=Typolis.de |date=3 October 1932 |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717043052/http://www.typolis.de/version1/engl/ftimes.htm |url-status=live }} After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch typeface five times since 1972. However, all the new typeface have been variants of the original New Roman type:

• Times Europa was designed by Walter Tracy in 1972 for The Times, as a sturdier alternative to the Times font family, designed for the demands of faster printing presses and cheaper paper. The typeface features more open counter spaces.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34aLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT345|title=The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1,800 Typefaces and Their Histories|last=Dawson|first=Peter|date=17 December 2019|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-6851-5|pages=345 |language=en|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131615/https://books.google.com/books?id=34aLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT345#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
• Times Roman replaced Times Europa on 30 August 1982.{{cite news |last1=Driver |first1=David |title=After 221 years, the world's leading newspaper shows off a fresh face |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/after-221-years-the-worlds-leading-newspaper-shows-off-a-fresh-face-vxs5wkc0ch6 |access-date=23 June 2018 |work=The Times |date=20 November 2006 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=24 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010621/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/after-221-years-the-worlds-leading-newspaper-shows-off-a-fresh-face-vxs5wkc0ch6 |url-status=live }}
• Times Millennium was made in 1991, drawn by Gunnlaugur Briem on the instructions of Aurobind Patel, composing manager of News International.
• Times Classic first appeared in 2001.{{cite web |url=http://www.fontshop.com/features/fontmag/002/02_news/ |title=Typography of News Bigger, faster, better |website=Fontshop.com |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=14 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214084026/http://www.fontshop.com/features/fontmag/002/02_news/ |url-status=live }} Designed as an economical face by the British-type team of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, it took advantage of the new PC-based publishing system at the newspaper while obviating the production shortcomings of its predecessor, Times Millennium. The new typeface included 120 letters per font. Initially, the family comprised ten fonts, but a condensed version was added in 2004.{{cite web |title=Times® Font Family Typeface Story |url=https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/times/story |website=Fonts.com |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=en |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017171231/https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/times/story |url-status=live }}
• Times Modern was unveiled on 20 November 2006, as the successor of Times Classic. Designed for improving legibility in smaller font sizes, it uses 45-degree angled bracket serifs. Ben Preston, the deputy editor of The Times, and designer Neville Brody led Research Studios in creating the typeface, which Elsner + Flake published as EF Times Modern.{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=184449 |title=Neville Brody's Research Studios Creates New Font and Design Changes for The Times as Compact Format Continues to Attract Loyal Readership |location=London |publisher=PR Newswire |date=15 November 2006 |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523125758/http://www2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=184449 |url-status=live }}

Historically, the paper was not overtly pro-Tory or Whig, but has been a long time bastion of the British Establishment and Empire. In 1959, the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of The Times in shaping the views of events of London's elite, writing:

For much more than a century The Times has been an integral and important part of the political structure of Great Britain. Its news and its editorial comment have in general been carefully coordinated, and have at most times been handled with an earnest sense of responsibility. While the paper has admitted some trivia to its columns, its whole emphasis has been on important public affairs treated with an eye to the best interests of Britain. To guide this treatment, the editors have for long periods been in close touch with 10 Downing Street.Allan Nevins, "American Journalism and Its Historical Treatment", Journalism Quarterly (1959) 36#4 pp 411–22

The Times adopted a stance described as "peculiarly detached" at the 1945 general election; although it was increasingly critical of the Conservative Party's campaign, it did not advocate a vote for any one party.R. B. McCallum and Alison Readman, The British General Election of 1945, Oxford University Press, 1947, p. 181–2. However, the newspaper reverted to the Conservatives for the next election five years later. It supported the Conservatives for the subsequent three elections, followed by support for both the Conservatives and the Liberal Party for the next five elections, expressly supporting a Con-Lib coalition in 1974. The paper then backed the Conservatives solidly until 1997, when it declined to make any party endorsement but supported individual (primarily Eurosceptic) candidates.David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, "The British General Election of 1997", Macmillan, London, 1997, p. 156.

For the 2001 general election, The Times declared its support for Tony Blair's Labour government, which was re-elected by a landslide (although not as large as in 1997). It supported Labour again in 2005, when Labour achieved a third successive win, though with a reduced majority.{{cite web|url=http://www.supanet.com/business--money/which-political-parties-do-the-newspapers-support--25923p1.html|title=Which political parties do the newspapers support?|last=Lancaster|first=Dave|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Supanet|access-date=27 October 2010|archive-date=9 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009142632/http://www.supanet.com/business--money/which-political-parties-do-the-newspapers-support--25923p1.html|url-status=live}} In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, and 26% for Labour.{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/755/Voting-Intention-by-Newspaper-Readership.aspx|title=Voting intention by newspaper readership|date=9 March 2005|publisher=Ipsos MORI|access-date=18 July 2009|archive-date=16 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716090017/http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/755/Voting-Intention-by-Newspaper-Readership.aspx|url-status=live}} For the 2010 general election, the newspaper declared its support for the Conservatives once again; the election ended in the Tories taking the most votes and seats but having to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority.{{cite news|last=Stoddard|first=Katy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |title= Newspaper support in UK general elections|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=4 May 2010|access-date=27 October 2010 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224051644/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/04/general-election-newspaper-support |url-status=live}}

Its changes in political alignment make it the most varied newspaper in terms of political support in British history. Some columnists in The Times are connected to the Conservative Party, such as Daniel Finkelstein, Tim Montgomerie, Matthew Parris, and Matt Ridley, but there are also columnists connected to the Labour Party, such as David Aaronovitch and Jenni Russell.{{cite web|title=How left or right-wing are the UK's newspapers? {{!}} YouGov|url=https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/03/07/how-left-or-right-wing-are-uks-newspapers|last=Smith|first=Matthew|date=7 March 2017|website=YouGov|access-date=14 September 2020|archive-date=11 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711060555/https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/03/07/how-left-or-right-wing-are-uks-newspapers|url-status=live}}

The Times occasionally makes endorsements for foreign elections. In November 2012, it endorsed a second term for Democrat Barack Obama, although it also expressed reservations about his foreign policy.{{cite news |date=1 November 2012 |title=America Decides |newspaper=The Times |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/america-decides-v3xnllbv03f |url-status=live |access-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210716102824/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/america-decides-v3xnllbv03f |archive-date=16 July 2021}}

During the 2019 Conservative leadership election, The Times endorsed Boris Johnson{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-times-view-on-the-next-prime-minister-boris-johnson-at-no-10-njpzrff8v|title=The Times view on the next prime minister: Boris Johnson at No 10|date=6 July 2019|work=The Times|access-date=29 September 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=15 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115030736/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-next-prime-minister-boris-johnson-at-no-10-njpzrff8v|url-status=live}} and subsequently endorsed the Conservative Party in the general election of that year.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-times-s-endorsement-for-the-general-election-back-to-the-future-bmtz9gv97|title=The Times's endorsement for the general election: Back to the Future|date=11 December 2019|work=The Times|access-date=13 April 2020|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118102219/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-s-endorsement-for-the-general-election-back-to-the-future-bmtz9gv97|url-status=live}}

In 2022, Tony Gallagher was appointed to replace John Witherow, who had served nine years as editor. A former Sun editor, Gallagher enthusiastically backed Brexit during the 2016 EU referendum. According to The Guardian, "The Times' readership is split politically, with journalists at the outlet speculating on how Gallagher will shape the paper's editorial line as the prospect of a Labour government became more likely (in 2024)."{{cite web |last=Waterson |first=Jim |title=Tony Gallagher confirmed as new editor of the Times |website=The Guardian |date=28 September 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/28/tony-gallagher-confirmed-as-new-editor-of-the-times |access-date=21 August 2023 |archive-date=16 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916232657/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/28/tony-gallagher-confirmed-as-new-editor-of-the-times |url-status=live }}

The Times, along with the British Film Institute, sponsored the BFI London Film Festival from 2003 to 2009.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3116646.stm|title=Female stars lead London festival|access-date=20 July 2012|work=BBC News|date=17 September 2003|first=Neil|last=Smith|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3116646.stm|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.screendaily.com/lffs-increased-ambition/5019188.article |title=LFF's increased ambition |work=Screendaily |date=13 October 2010 |first=Geoffrey |last=Macnab |access-date=10 November 2024}} It also sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/|title=The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival|website=Cheltenham Festivals|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=24 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224082400/https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/|url-status=live}}

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• John Walter 1785 to 1803
• John Walter, Jnr 1803 to 1812
• Sir John Stoddart 1812 to 1816
• Thomas Barnes 1817 to 1841
• John Thadeus Delane 1841 to 1877
• Thomas Chenery 1877 to 1884
• George Earle Buckle 1884 to 1912
• George Geoffrey Dawson 1912 to 1919
• George Sydney Freeman 1919 (two-month 'inter-regnum'){{cite news |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xL_MgkxdZ5cJ:www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/Patricia%2520Rowan%25201997.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9n_oSQao1AIo6QeWHiTRwU_1BWsGgYNnnNGYQb7bl1SZLQ27euy8z_LJNV45XxjZE0l_l09WY1W8Mc4YPOlU7-xynUOLrNSgMY8cA8TNp0FbquzC6AAoCG7KizxcnQIAOZXJi&sig=AHIEtbS0uHXcFpUJMIYzdTfxDwW864Ecpg |title=Power or Influence: Can educational journalists make a difference |year=1997 |access-date=23 January 2013 |archive-date=3 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303083439/https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xL_MgkxdZ5cJ:www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/Patricia%2520Rowan%25201997.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9n_oSQao1AIo6QeWHiTRwU_1BWsGgYNnnNGYQb7bl1SZLQ27euy8z_LJNV45XxjZE0l_l09WY1W8Mc4YPOlU7-xynUOLrNSgMY8cA8TNp0FbquzC6AAoCG7KizxcnQIAOZXJi&sig=AHIEtbS0uHXcFpUJMIYzdTfxDwW864Ecpg |url-status=live }}
• Henry Wickham Steed 1919 to 1922
• George Geoffrey Dawson1923 to 1941
• Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward 1941 to 1948
• William Francis Casey 1948 to 1952
• Sir William John Haley 1952 to 1966
• William Rees-Mogg 1967 to 1981
• Harold Evans 1981 to 1982
• Charles Douglas-Home 1982 to 1985
• Charles Wilson 1985 to 1990
• Simon Jenkins 1990 to 1992
• Peter Stothard 1992 to 2002
• Robert Thomson 2002 to 2007
• James Harding 2007 to 2012
• John Witherow 2013 to 2022
• Tony Gallagher 2022 to date

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An Irish digital edition of the paper was launched in September 2015 at TheTimes.ie.{{cite web |title=Irish edition of The Times launched |website=Marketing.ie |date=16 April 2018 |url=http://marketing.ie/irish-edition-of-the-times-launched/ |access-date=16 April 2018 |archive-date=9 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309215110/http://marketing.ie/irish-edition-of-the-times-launched |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url = http://www.todayfm.com/WATCH:-Gavan-Reilly-gives-us-an-overall-update-from-Midday--GE16 |title = WATCH: Gavan Reilly gives us an overall update from Midday – #GE16 |website = Today FM |access-date = 29 February 2016 |archive-date = 19 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171019042332/https://www.todayfm.com/WATCH:-Gavan-Reilly-gives-us-an-overall-update-from-Midday--GE16 |url-status = dead }} A print edition was launched in June 2017, replacing the international edition previously distributed in Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://www.news.co.uk/2017/05/the-ireland-edition-of-the-times-available-in-print/|title=The Ireland edition of The Times available in print|website=www.news.co.uk|date=24 May 2017|language=en-GB|access-date=1 June 2017|archive-date=24 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524195129/https://www.news.co.uk/2017/05/the-ireland-edition-of-the-times-available-in-print/|url-status=live}} The Irish edition was set to close in June 2019 with the loss of 20 jobs.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/times-ireland-to-make-most-editorial-staff-redundant-1.3899808|title=Times Ireland to make most editorial staff redundant|first1=Jack|last1=Horgan-Jones|first2=Laura|last2=Slattery|date=21 May 2019|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2 July 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731053855/https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/times-ireland-to-make-most-editorial-staff-redundant-1.3899808|url-status=live}}

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times, becoming a separately paid-for weekly literature and society magazine in 1914.{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |title=The ultimate review of reviews |access-date=20 July 2012 |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=6 November 2001 |archive-date=30 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430120156/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |url-status=live }} The TLS is owned and published by News International and co-operates closely with The Times, with its online version hosted on The Times website, and its editorial offices based in 1 London Bridge Street, London.{{Cite web |title=Contact us |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/contact-us/ |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=TLS |language=en-GB |archive-date=24 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624232249/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/contact-us/ |url-status=live }}

Between 1951 and 1966, The Times published a separately paid-for quarterly science review, The Times Science Review. The Times started a new, free, monthly science magazine, Eureka, in October 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.campaignlive.com/article/times-launches-science-magazine-eureka/943053|title=The Times launches science magazine Eureka|last=Ramsay|first=Fiona|date=2 October 2009|website=Campaign|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229060350/https://www.campaignlive.com/article/times-launches-science-magazine-eureka/943053|url-status=live}} The magazine closed in October 2012.{{Cite web |last=Turvill |first=William |date=1 October 2012 |title=News International confirms closure of Times science magazine Eureka |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/news-international-confirms-closure-times-science-magazine-eureka/ |access-date=29 December 2019 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229060817/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/news-international-confirms-closure-times-science-magazine-eureka/ |url-status=live }}

The Times Review of IndustryComan, Sources of Business Information, Revised Ed, 1970, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uuBtIsy9RdAC&pg=PA54 p 54] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124061734/https://books.google.com/books?id=uuBtIsy9RdAC&pg=PA54 |date=24 November 2023 }} (which began in 1947)"Shorter Notices" (1947) [https://books.google.com/books?id=KAhXAAAAYAAJ 152] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103053732/https://books.google.com/books?id=KAhXAAAAYAAJ |date=3 November 2023 }} The Economist 239 (8 February 1947) and Technology (which began in 1957)Union List of Serials in New Zealand Libraries, 3rd Ed, 1969, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EGrgAAAAMAAJ vol 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103051949/https://books.google.com/books?id=EGrgAAAAMAAJ |date=3 November 2023 }}, pp 1357 & 1373 merged in March 1963MULS, 1981, [https://books.google.com/books?id=O_tWAAAAMAAJ vol 11] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107002948/https://books.google.com/books?id=O_tWAAAAMAAJ |date=7 November 2023 }}, pp 7624 & 7705 to become The Times Review of Industry & Technology.New Serial Titles, 1966, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FUj4hv1OSfYC vol 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104113458/https://books.google.com/books?id=FUj4hv1OSfYC |date=4 November 2023 }}, p 2661 From 1952, The Times Review of Industry included the London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin.Carter and Roy, British Economic Statistics, 1954, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2mcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 p 169] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103090235/https://books.google.com/books?id=F2mcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 |date=3 November 2023 }}. Cairncross, Austin Robinson: The Life of an Economic Adviser, [https://books.google.com/books?id=df6-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 p 125] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103044052/https://books.google.com/books?id=df6-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 |date=3 November 2023 }}.

Times Atlases have been produced since 1895. The Collins Bartholomew imprint of HarperCollins Publishers is currently responsible for producing them. The flagship product is The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World.{{Cite web|url=https://collins.co.uk/pages/times-books-our-heritage|title=The Times Books – our heritage|website=Collins|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229073842/https://collins.co.uk/pages/times-books-our-heritage|archive-date=29 December 2019|access-date=29 December 2019}}

In 1971, The Times began publishing the Times Higher Education Supplement (now known as the Times Higher Education) which focuses its coverage on tertiary education.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoW9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT27|title=Researching Higher Education: International perspectives on theory, policy and practice|last1=Case|first1=Jennifer M.|last2=Huisman|first2=Jeroen|date=14 October 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-38206-5|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131629/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoW9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT27#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}

In 1915, R P Farley said "the files of the Times must be constantly studied" as an authority for the political and social history of the English people during the period from the Reform Bill 1832 to the Education Act 1870 (1832 to 1870).R P Farley. "Authorities" in "A Political and Social Survey of the Period from 1815-1914". Chapter 2. John Richard Green. A Short History of the English People. Green's Short History of the English People: with Introduction and Notes by L Cecil Jane and a Survey of the Period 1815-1914 by R P Farley. (Everyman's Library). J M Dent & Sons. London and Toronto. E P Dutton & Co. New York. October 1915. Reprinted December 1915. Volume 2. Page 804. From 1971 to 1973, John Joseph Bagley said The Times is "valuable" as a source of nineteenth-century English historyJ J Bagley. "Historical Interpretation 2: Sources of English History: 1540 to the Present Day". Historical Interpretation. St Martin's Press. New York. 1973. [Date of authorship is 1972.] [https://books.google.com/books?id=5boIAQAAMAAJ Volume 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124061736/https://books.google.com/books?id=5boIAQAAMAAJ |date=24 November 2023 }}. Page 275. (The value of The Times (and other newspapers) for the study of Nineteenth Century history is discussed further on pages 273 to 276 and 281.) and that the annual index to The Times is useful for the twentieth century.Bagley. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3DsgAAAAMAAJ Historical Interpretation 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124061739/https://books.google.com/books?id=3DsgAAAAMAAJ |date=24 November 2023 }}. Penguin Books. 1971. Hardback Edition. David & Charles. Newton Abbey. 1972. p 282. In 2003, Richard Krzys said The Times is very reliable as a source of history.Richard Krzys. "Library Historiography". Miriam A Drake (ed). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Marcel Dekker. 2003. p 1621 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqr-_3FBYiYC&pg=PA1628 p 1628] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103045203/https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqr-_3FBYiYC&pg=PA1628 |date=3 November 2023 }}. In 2016, Denise Bates said The Times is "indispensable" as a source for historical events of national importance.Denise Bates. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QRUDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 "The Times"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103051809/https://books.google.com/books?id=QRUDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |date=3 November 2023 }}. Historical Research Using British Newspapers. Pen & Sword History. 2016.

In 2019, James Oldham said The Times is an important source for nisi prius trials.James Oldham, The Law of Contracts as Reported in The Times, 1785-1820". Ibbetson, Jones anr Ramsay (eds). English Legal History and its Sources. Cambridge University Press. 2019. pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=RIOWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 54] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107004920/https://books.google.com/books?id=RIOWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 |date=7 November 2023 }} & 55. In 2015, Johnston and Plummer said that The Times is an important source for music reviews.Roy Johnston with Declan Plummer. The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast. Ashgate Publishing. 2015. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis. 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 p 18] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103051521/https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |date=3 November 2023 }}

In the dystopian future world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Times has been transformed into an organ of the totalitarian ruling party.{{Cite book|title=Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction|last=Shippey|first=Tom|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2016|isbn=9781781384398|series=Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies|pages=233|chapter=Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131607/https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|url-status=live}} The book's lead character, Winston Smith is employed to rewrite past issues of the newspaper for the Ministry of Truth.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|title=The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|date=4 June 2019|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-54406-1|pages=78 |language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131609/https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}

Rex Stout's fictional detective, Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times{{'}} crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6|title=Murder by the Book|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=12 May 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75606-0|pages=vi|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131610/https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119|title=Triple Jeopardy|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=28 April 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75630-5|pages=119|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131720/https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}

In the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, James Bond reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love, The Times was "the only paper that Bond ever read."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|title=Licence to sell|access-date=20 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 December 2002|first=John|last=Mullan|location=London|archive-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326213538/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|url-status=live}}

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• Bingham, Adrian. "The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 (Gale Cengage)", English Historical Review (2013) 128#533 pp. 1037–1040. {{doi|10.1093/ehr/cet144}}
• {{cite book |last=Evans|first=Harold |title=Good Times, Bad Times |year=1983|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |isbn=0-297-78295-9 }} – includes sections of black-and-white photographic plates, plus a few charts and diagrams in text pages.
• Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 320–29.
• Morison, Stanley. The History of the Times: Volume 1: The Thunderer" in the Making 1785–1841. Volume 2: The Tradition Established 1841–1884. Volume 3: The Twentieth Century Test 1884–1912. Volume 4 [published in two parts]:The 150th Anniversary and Beyond 1912–1948. (1952)
• Riggs, Bruce Timothy. [https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278388/m2/1/high_res_d/1002720956-riggs.pdf "Geoffrey Dawson, editor of "The Times" (London), and his contribution to the appeasement movement" (PhD dissertation, U of North Texas, 1993) online], bibliography pp 229–33.

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• [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01080 Times (London, England) Collection] at the Harry Ransom Center
• {{Internet Archive author |search=( "The Times" AND London )}} (archives)
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• Anthony Trollope's satire [https://web.archive.org/web/20080817081520/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/warden/chapter14.html on the mid-nineteenth century Times]
• Journalism Now: The Times – [https://web.archive.org/web/20110317185723/http://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=353 Winchester University Journalism History project on The Times in the 19th century]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408213603/http://www.timesatlas.com/index.html Times World Atlases official website] including a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090423130724/http://www.timesatlas.com/Heritage/Pages/Home.aspx History and Heritage section] detailing landmark Times atlases
• [http://gale.cengage.co.uk/times.aspx/ Archive from 1785 to 2008] – full text and original layout, searchable (not free of charge, registration required)
• {{cite news |author1=Neil, Andrew |author-link=Andrew Neil |author2=Griffiths, Ian |author3= Fitzpatrick, Barry |url= http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1686500,00.html |title= Three views of the industrial dispute twenty years on |date= 15 January 2006 |work=The Observer |location=UK }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070830161221/http://www.rmit.edu.au/appliedcommunication/publiclectures The Times editor Robert Thomson lecture online: From the editorial desk of The Times, RMIT School of Applied Communication Public Lecture series]

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