Historic London LLM Dataset (1800-1875)

This dataset consists of approximately 90GB of cleaned English text derived from historical documents ranging from 1800 to 1875. It serves as the training corpus for the "Time Capsule LLM" project.

Dataset Details

• Time Period: 1800 - 1875
• Language: English
• Source: Digitized historical texts (Internet Archive)
• Tokenization: Custom BPE Tokenizer (vocab size 32,000)

Usage

This dataset is intended for research in digital humanities and historical linguistics.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite it as follows:

@misc{london_llm_1800,
  author = {Hayk Grigorian, Hamed Yaghoobian},
  title = {Historic London English (1800-1875)},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/postgrammar/london-llm-1800}}
}

License

Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0