About this source
Språkbanken Text’s Korp corpus tool over the KUBHIST2 collection: Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, regional papers and more, one corpus per newspaper and decade. Search a word or phrase (period spelling matters), narrow by decade or title, and get each hit with newspaper, date and the surrounding sentence. Ideal for tracing how a term, person or event was reported over time.
Questions you can ask Kubhist historical newspapers
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.
“How did Swedish newspapers write about kolera in the 1830s compared with the 1850s?”
What comes back: Concordance hits per decade with newspaper title, date and the surrounding sentence, plus total counts so you can compare frequency across periods.
“Find mentions of "ångbåt" in Aftonbladet between 1830 and 1860.”
What comes back: Dated passages from Aftonbladet with the matched words highlighted, ready to quote with the issue date.
What the assistant can do with it
The 2 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
korp_list_corporaList Korp corpus ids matching a filter (default: the KUBHIST2 historical newspaper corpora).
korp_searchConcordance search over Korp corpora.
Good to know
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Kubhist historical newspapers.
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