Walter bought the logography's patent and with it opened a printing house to produce books. At that time, Henry Johnson invented the logography, a new typography that was reputedly faster and more precise (although three years later, it was proved less efficient than advertised). Unemployed, Walter began a new business venture.

Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a Jamaican hurricane. The Times was founded by publisher John Walter (1738–1812) on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. History 1785 to 1890 įront page of The Times from 4 December 1788 A complete historical file of the digitised paper, up to 2019, is online from Gale Cengage Learning. The Times has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. The two newspapers also had 304,000 digital-only paid subscribers as of June 2019. The Times had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020 in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as The London Times, or as The Times of London, although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as The Times of India and The New York Times. In general, the political position of The Times is considered to be centre-right.

The Times and The Sunday Times, which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788.

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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