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Financial Times Historical Archive

The Financial Times is the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper, offeringunparalleled insight into global financial history. It is recognised for its analysis and opinions of worldwide business and financial topics, and offering the most detailed foreign affairs coverage of any daily European newspaper.

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OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OF CONTENT FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST RENOWNED BUSINESS NEWSPAPERS

The Financial Times Historical Archive provides a comprehensive, accurate and unbiased research tool for researchers in a range of subject areas. It is more than just a business newspaper, chronicling the impact of world events on business and global markets. Looking beyond financial and economic news, the Financial Times has broadened its coverage into many areas. This archive allows you to explore a diverse range of events and stories, including events in world history, the global fallout of major financial crises, important figures in international history and market developments and paradigm shifts.

KEY STATISTICSNumber of articles Number of pages Earliest document

Over 7 million Over 850,000 1888Latest document

2016*

PREMIER RESOURCE FOR FINANCIAL INFORMATIONAccess to thousands of daily price and stock indexes and currency tables, giving a unique record of financial history and market developments

INCLUDES A WIDE RANGE OF ADDITIONAL CONTENTIncludes all the magazines (the ‘FT Magazine’ and ‘How To Spend It’), special reports, notable columns (including the Lex column) and supplements

AN IMPORTANT VOICE IN HISTORYExplore history from a financial perspective, charting the impact of momentous events on world economiesand markets

CROSS-SEARCH FOR NEW CONNECTIONSThis archive is cross-searchable with other Gale Primary Sources collections, opening new avenues for digital humanities scholarship and uncovering new and innovative research

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESOURCE

• Business and Business History

• Contemporary History

• Economics and Economic History

• International Studies and International History

• Social Studies and Social History

FEATURES AND TOOLS

Term FrequencySee the frequency of search terms within a content set to begin assessing interactions and how they developed over time.

Term ClustersDeveloping research topics by identifying and organising frequently occurring themes, and revealing hidden relationships between search terms.

* The years 2011-2016 were released as a seperate module in early 2018. Some libraries may only have access until the end of 2010.