United Kingdom Contentious Event Dataset

The UK Contentious Events Dataset (UKCED) is a structured, event-level dataset of protest events in the United Kingdom spanning the years 2010 to 2024. It draws on two major national English-language newspapers: the Daily Mail and The Guardian. It provides a cross-outlet view of UK protests over fifteen years.

Each row in the dataset represents a single source document (newspaper article) describing at least one protest event. The dataset contains 8,994 rows and 16 columns after deduplication and quality filtering. Source article texts have been replaced by machine-generated English summaries stored in the `text_content_summary` column. Named entity recognition (NER) was applied to extract structured event metadata including event date, geographic location, participant names, organisations, participant counts, detentions, and violence descriptors, as described in the original work.