The Sunday Times will next Sunday be publishing a commemorative magazine to mark the 75th anniversary of The Times.
Entitled 75 Years of Reporting The Times, the magazine will be a journey through time. The most memorable newspaper front pages of each year since 1935 have been compiled in their original and unedited format into a single publication.
From the first issue on August 7, 1935, reporting Italy's plans for the invasion of Abyssinia, through to Malta's EU membership, via the Second World War, Malta's independence, the political turbulence and the September 11 attacks, The Times was there to detail history, drama and human stories.
Never missing a beat, the newspaper survived the German war bombing, 16 governments and the torching of its Valletta premises in 1979 to become Malta's biggest and most influential newspaper. In the meantime, timesofmalta.com burst onto the scene to become the most accessed local website.
The magazine will give an interesting perspective of the way society, and news dissemination have changed along the years. The years when a coup in some far-off island made front page news are long gone, and so have the intricacies of the British Royal Family.
Instead, newspapers give prominence to better-illustrated investigative stories.
In its first issue, The Times of Malta said "the minutest care had to be taken to ensure the mechanical side was functioning perfectly before the paper could be offered to the eager public".
Seventy-five years on, the dreams and visions of Lord Gerald Strickland and his daughter Mabel are still alive and kicking as an eager public looks up to The Times for its first and most credible source of news dissemination.
The 'mechanical' side is still a priority as the printing arm of the newspaper, Progress Press, will soon shift operations to the new state-of-the-art premises in Mrieħel.
The Times and timesofmalta.com will also be publishing features this week to mark the anniversary.
Next weekend The Times and The Sunday Times will also be giving away two pairs of tickets to any destination on the Air Malta network.