British speeches, 1870-1914, and German speeches, 1871-1912

This dataset contains computer-readable text of British Parliamentary ''Speeches in Reply'' of 1870 to 1914 (approximately 220,000 words) and the German text of German Reichstag ''Speeches from the Throne'' of 1871-1921 (approximately 80,000 words). Also included are two British equivalence decks. The first includes (a) geographic equivalences, (b) the full General Inquirer political dictionary, and (c) words from the British text equivalence under either (a) or (b). The second equivalence deck is a shortened version of the first with about one hundred keywords in three dimensions: geographic, affect, and strength.