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Use Boolean search terms - AND, NOT, OR etc. e.g. apple NOT fruit.
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Use quote marks when looking for a specific phrase e.g. “London Olympics”.
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Note on dates - they refer to the day archived NOT the day published.
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The archive contains some social media (mostly Twitter) but is NOT comprehensive.
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This is a collection of UK websites. The Archive contains many more .uk websites than other top level domains such as .com
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18,000+ websites, collected from 2005 to the present, are publicly available online as we have the website owner's consent to make them available in this way.
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The majority of the UK Web Archive has been collected under the Non-Print Legal Deposit regulations 2013. Material collected this way can legally only be viewed in UK Legal Deposit reading rooms (on library terminals).
