February 2014 Database of the Month

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive contains every page of every copy of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) published from 1902-2008.  This easy-to-navigate, fully-searchable resource is a witness to the cultural revolutions of the last 100 years and offers opportunities for tracking the views of influential opinion-makers, the response of their peers, the controversies of the day and how they developed. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive allows for extensive cross-disciplinary research, as the only literary weekly to offer comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications in multiple languages, across all areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Times (London), for more than 100 years the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. Since its first issue, the Times Literary Supplement has attracted the contributions of the world’s most influential writers and critics of the 20th and 21st centuries, from T.S. Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf in the early 20th century to Clive James, A.N. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s.