The Times The Times The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. "The Times" and its sister paper "The Sunday Times" (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp. "The Times" and "The Sunday Times" do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1967. In 1959, the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of "The
The Last Times The Last Times The Last Times was a tabloid underground newspaper published in San Francisco in 1967 by beatnik poet and printer Charles Plymell. It lasted only two issues, but included work by William Burroughs, Claude Pelieu, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. "The Last Times" featured William Burroughs' text "Day the Records Went Up" (a version of which later appeared in "Evergreen Review", November 1968), Claude Pelieu's "Do It Yourself & Dig It", Allen Ginsberg's poem "Television Was A Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber" (also published in Ginsberg's book "T.V. Baby Poems" , London: Cape Goliart Press, 1967), and a