Search once, then choose how the archive answers: the articles that match, the headlines, the names in the text, a word's frequency across seventy years, or the places involved.
Full text of all 840 issues, uncorrected OCR. Results are ranked, and each one opens at the page it was found on.
Every article headline in the archive, 65,106 of them. Filter by words in the headline, or narrow the years to browse a run of issues.
Type to filter, or narrow the years to browse.
Every person, place, ship and organisation the text names three or more times, 54,873 in all. Drawn automatically from uncorrected OCR, so expect a few oddities. Open a name for its dossier.
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How often a word appeared, year by year, as a rate per million words, so a slim 1930s volume and a bulky 1970s one compare fairly. Up to three comma-separated words. A multi-word term is charted as the sum of its words, not as a phrase, so "south seas" shows as "south + seas". Key dates in Pacific history are marked on the chart.
Type a word above, or up to three comma-separated words.
The words that climbed or fell the most from one decade to the next, measured as a rate per million words. Click any word to chart it.
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Every place named three or more times, 751 of them, plotted where it sits in the world. Circle size follows how often a place was named. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and step through the decades to watch the geography shift. Type above to pick out the places whose names match.
Only the 751 most-mentioned places are plotted here.