The Historic droughts inventory of references from British twentieth-century newspapers 1900-1999 consists of the following files:
File name	File description	
HD_Newspapers20thCentury_dataFile.csv	This file comprises a collection of 24,567 references to articles published in British nineteenth-century newspapers containing one or more instances of the word drought.	
HD_Inventory_20thcentury_supportingInformation.rtf	This file provides an account of how the data were collected, extracted and prepared for inclusion in the Historic droughts inventory of references from British twentieth-century newspapers (1900-1999). The file also explains how this Inventory can be searched and used.