Here are the top moments in modern British history according to artificial intelligence

What historian has time to read tens of millions of news articles from more than a century of British history? So computer scientists and historians have taught computers how to do the job instead, analysing billions of words of news reports to take a new look at the 19th and early 20th centuries. The study, published in the journal PNAS, marks the early steps of the emerging field of "culturomics". Computers analysed a total of 28.6 billion words from 35 million British regional news stories published between 1800 and 1950, which made up about 14% of the total output of the regional press in that period. For comparison, the average adult has a reading speed of about 300 words per minute. At that rate, it would take someone about 180 solid years to do all that reading, not including a lunch break.