The Economist Historical Archive
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20th August 2008

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The Economist http://www.economist.com has launched a new online service: The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. Subscribers will be able to access and search every page of the newspaper over a 160-year period. The database will make available every article, leader, letter and cover. All the special reports will be searchable, as will every advertisement, image and financial indicator that has been published in the period covered. Previews of the service will be available at a by-invitation event organised by the Economist Intelligence Unit http://www.eiu.com and the Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) http://www.aukml.org.uk. Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of The Economist, will be present and he will give those attending an advance insight into the archive’s capabilities. The Economist continues to be one of those publications that the educated layman or woman turns to for clearly-written, insightful pieces on world events. In fact, many of the articles don’t, on the face of it, seem to be about economics at all. I have found that the newspaper never shies away from expressing strong opinions, a refreshing antidote to some of the blander reportage around in other news sources. It continues to be a “must-read” for me, as it is for many LiveWire subscribers. For those of you with a subscription, this new service has just opened up a treasure trove of corporate, market, and socio-economic history. One thing continues to puzzle me about The Economist: how does arrange things for its Obituary page so that one important person manages to die each week?

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