TJEN: 344,000 Historical Labour Advertisements from Danish-Norwegian Newspapers, 1750-1850

TJEN - Tjenesteannoncer i Enevældens Nyheder / ALA - Absolutist Labour Advertisements contains 344,000 labour advertisements from the largest town newspapers in Denmark-Norway between 1750 and 1850. Author sofuslad uploaded this dataset to Hugging Face, with a last recorded update in May 2026. The advertisements were submitted by employers or workers seeking jobs for publication.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical labour demand and supply patterns based on advertisement submissions.
• Study linguistic and semantic shifts in job descriptions over a century based on newspaper text.
• Research regional economic development in Denmark-Norway based on the geographic origin of advertisements.
• Examine social structures and occupational categories based on the types of labour advertised.

Strengths

• Contains 344,000 records, providing substantial scale for analysis.
• Covers a significant 100-year time range from 1750 to 1850.
• Sourced from the largest town newspapers in Denmark-Norway, indicating a primary historical source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

huggingface

Collection Method

Advertisements submitted to newspaper offices by employers or workers for publication.

Time Range

1750-1850

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 12:39:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Denmark-Norway