Famous for its investigative journalism, The Sunday Times were responsible for revealing the thalidomide scandal in the 1960s and the Israeli nuclear program in 1986. They haven’t always been so clever though as it was caught up in one of the greatest frauds of the 20th century, when they signed a deal in 1983 to serialize the newly discovered Hitler Diaries which were quickly discovered to be forgeries. Circulation, however, soared.

The newspaper has always featured a regular births, deaths and marriages column. In the nineteenth century there was a regular Freemasonry column, as well as publishing details of the graduates from Sandhurst – so an excellent resource for family historians.

Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times.