The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of The Statesman. The full digitised newspaper comprises 24 July 1806-18 February 1824. Full holdings are 24 July, 24 Oct., 24 Nov.1806; 19 June 1809 - 30 Dec.1815; 1 Jan.1818 - 18 Feb.1824.(1811 very incomplete). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/statesman-london. The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but in 2021 the paywall is expected to be lifted for this title and eventually all the newspapers we are digitising under the Heritage Made Digital programme.