British Library Books
- Type
- dataset
- Venue
- TheBritishLibrary
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- huggingface
- Access
- free
- Language
- de, en, es, fr, it, nl
- Added
- 2026-07-17T20:01:33.872293+00:00
- Verified
- 2026-07-17T20:01:33.872293+00:00
Summary
This dataset consists of books digitised by the British Library in partnership with Microsoft. The dataset includes ~25 million pages of out of copyright texts. The majority of the texts were published in the 18th and 19th Century, but the collection also consists of a smaller number of books from earlier periods.
Keywords
hf-dataset language-modeling masked-language-modeling no-annotation machine-generated multilingual original digital-humanities-research
Topics
Language Modeling
Research notes
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