The Times has unveiled its long awaited free online archive which contains almost every issue of the newspaper for 200 years. The Times Archive includes more than 20m articles, photographs and adverts for all but 100 issues between 1785 and 1985, and covers events such as Queen Victoria’s coronation, the Crimean War and Scott’s fateful expedition to the Antarctic.

That’s just brilliant… original articles like the one below — perfect for anachronists like me ;)