metadata

language:
  - en
license: cc0-1.0
pretty_name: The Times Archive 1824
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: original_publication_date
      dtype: string
    - name: ocr_text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 138150979
      num_examples: 13733
  download_size: 104596971
  dataset_size: 138150979
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
tags:
  - newspaper
  - history

The Times Archive Dataset (1824)

This dataset contains text extracted at the article level from The Times. The newspaper articles in the dataset were published in 1824.

The dataset contains text generated from Optical Character Recognition software on digitised newspaper pages. This dataset includes the plain text from the OCR alongside some minimal metadata associated with the newspaper from which the text is derived.

This dataset can be used for:

historical research and digital humanities research
training language models
training historic language models

Metadata

Dataset Name: The Times Archive Dataset (1824)
Description: Dataset containing articles from The Times Archive for the year 1824.
License: The newspaper in this dataset are in the public domain. The dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license.