Unique in its international coverage of religion, current affairs, politics, social issues and the arts, The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for over 170 years.

Every week The Tablet provides in-depth and balanced coverage on a wide range of subjects and its contribution to topical issues is strengthened by its contributors: each issue contains the work of writers drawn from all over the world, whose names are familiar in their particular field of experience.

Exact Editions is thrilled to announce that the complete archive is now accessible for subscribers, with over 8000 issues now available to view. This extensive archive goes back 170 years and is fully searchable as well as easy to navigate.

The Church in the World section reports on events within the Church internationally, covering Europe, Rome, Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The Home News section reports on news within UK churches, both Catholic and other Christian. In addition the latest church documents are analysed and discussed

The Notebook section gives a light-hearted round-up of recent events, often with a humorous tone and the Letters section offers lively and intelligent debate from readers worldwide.

No mention of The Tablet would be complete without reference to the widely respected Books section. Its detailed reviews are comprehensive, across a wide variety of subjects from philosophy to film appreciation and Christian apologetics to crime fiction. And the Arts section includes reviews of galleries and exhibitions, theatre, cinema, television, radio, music and opera.

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For an annual subscription fee starting at $450, digital institutional subscriptions for The Tablet are also available. These provide access to the digital version of the journal and are available to anyone within the institutions site or with remote access to the institutions database. The IP address of the user is checked and is granted access without the need for user login or password as authentication is via the institute’s IP range. This package enable a back issue archive search.

Latest issue

The forgotten famine. The most acute famine of the modern era – one that could kill as many as half a million people – is occurring in the Tigray region of Ethiopia / BY ALEX DE WAAL

In search of an ending. Now that vocations have ceased, a religious sister asks if religious congregations in Ireland have entered their final phase / BY LIZ MURPHY

Faith in diplomacy. The UK’s ambassador to the Holy See, Sally Axworthy, is leaving after five years which have seen a gradual maturing in the relationship / BY CHRISTOPHER LAMB

In search of the soul. In our series in which writers reflect on a place where the next world seems just out of reach, a poet considers a beloved acre of land in Fife / BY JOHN BURNSIDE

Making history. One of the key figures in forging the Anglo-Irish agreement of 19 / BY DAVID GOODALL