The Hansard Corpus, 1802-2023

Corpus linguistics is a British success story, revolutionising language analysis and teaching through computer-assisted examination of vast datasets. Since 2013, the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science has extended this method beyond linguistics to social sciences, tackling issues like hate crime, climate change, financial reporting, and education. It has also developed freely accessible tools and resources, establishing itself as a global leader.

The Hansard Corpus is a extensive dataset including 2 billion words of UK parliamentary speeches from 1802-2023. The corpus is annotated and searchable for grammatical and semantic categories. The data is available via a free software tool #LancsBox X, which allows full access to the dataset as well as complex statistical analyses (R package) and visualisations.