To search by date, use Advanced Search.

Leaving the truncation box ticked, a date search for a value of, e.g., 185 will retrieve records of the 1850s. We advise you to combine this with other search terms to reduce the number of hits.

Date ranges

To search within a particular date range, break the query down into two rows. In the first row, select > (greater than) in the Operator column, enter the lower end of your date range as the value and select AND in the Boolean column. In the second row, select < (less than) in the Operator column and enter the upper end of your date range as the value. For example, to search for the word "hours" restricted to documents from the 15th century, build the following query

Free text = hours AND
Date > 1400 AND
Date < 1500

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