The Times Literary Supplement
Historical Archive

The Essential Review for Modern Cultural Studies
Features:
Founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Times (London), for more than
100 years the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for finewriting, literary discoveries and insightful debate. Since its first issue, theTLS 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 andVirginia Woolf in the early 20th century to Clive James, A.N. Wilson andChristopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s.
In its digital form, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 19022006 (formerly the TLS Centenary Archive) becomes a rich research andteaching tool for students and scholars allowing them to trace the viewsof influential opinion makers, the response of their contemporaries,
the controversies and debates of the day. The value of the TLS Historical
Archive lies in its extensive cross-disciplinary reach, 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 andsocial sciences.

Expanded content, richer functionality
With an additional 16 recent years added to this new edition, users now
have access to the complete run of The Times Literary Supplement from 1902
to 2006. Among over 300,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles users
will find the contemporary criticism of scholars such as George Steiner,
the reviews of award-winning novels of A.S. Byatt and Joyce Carol Oates,
the philosophical works of Thomas Nagel and Richard Dawkins and also
track the discoveries of explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison.

• Intuitive new interface• Fully text searchable with hit-term
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• “My Archive” to save searches, results
and annotations between sessions• Fuzzy search – low, medium, highAn intuitive new interface accompanies the latest edition providing users
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allowing searching of advertisements and short book reviews that weren’t
always available in the Centenary Archive.

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Historical Archive
Multi-disciplinary resourceThis unique digital collection offers thousands of reviewsof major books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and covers
every area of the visual and performing arts including reviewsof exhibitions, opera, theatre, and film. It contains topicalessays and criticism in areas including:
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Economics
Exploration
HistoryMusic•••••

Philosophy
Politics
Religion
Science and medicine
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International in scope and appeal
From its anglo centric beginnings at the start of 20th century,
the TLS had developed by the mid-20th century into a truly
international publication, with contributors from every region ofthe world. Researchers will find the essays of writers including:••••

Italo Calvino
Milan Kundera
Mario Vargas Llosa
Joseph Brodsky•••

Orhan Pamuk
Alberto Manguel
And more

Browse by issue

The TLS has long published reviews of non-English language and translated books and devotes special issues toregional surveys of, for example, the USA, the Islamic world, France, Germany, Africa and the Far East. The TLS Special
Numbers frequently take a particular country as its subject – for instance, the April 1929 issue focussed on Germany,
the June 1934 issue contained a 28 page section on Italy, and American Writing To-Day formed part of the 100-page
Special Number issue in 1954. With reviews on books from every region of the world, the TLS Historical Archive forms
a veritable ‘world-wide republic of letters’.
By combining the complete text of the TLS from 1902-2006, the TLS Index, and information on previously anonymouscontributors, the fully indexed TLS Historical Archive offers a powerful instrument for broad exploration of international
cultural activity and its critical reception in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Find out how the TLS Historical Archive
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