The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1808-2006

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The world's business newspaper: now online

The complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper is coming The world's business newspaper: now online. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888 to 2006, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

"No FT, no comment"

From its beginning as the London Financial Guide in January 1888, the Financial Times has developed to become one of the best-known and most-respected newspapers in the world, with a wider readership internationally than within the UK.

The Financial Times Historical Archive

This complete online fully-searchable facsimile edition of the FT offers the complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue to the end of 2006. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. For this online archive every item has been subject or topic categorised to permit fast retrieval and review of relevant articles.

This historical archive of the Financial Times, which is today distributed on its distinctive pink paper in more than sixty countries, is a comprehensive, accurate and unbiased research tool for everyone studying the economic and business history and current affairs of the last 120 years.

"The FT has been uncompromising in its core mission, which is to give readers a service which is poised, informed, classy and intelligent" - Comment from the judges following the FT winning the coveted Newspaper of the Year award at the British Press Awards in 2008
"The only paper that tells the truth" - Noam Chomsky, 1992

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