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 # The Times Archive Dataset (1824)
-This dataset contains articles from The Times Archive for the year 1824. Each article is accompanied by its original publication date and OCR text.
 ## Metadata

 # 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