A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset which contains books related to 19th Century British Colonies. The dataset of 1288 items was created using filtering by keywords of locations and then manually checked for accuracy. The data was augmented with additional columns including ‘City’, ‘Colony Name’ and ‘Continent’. The exisiting metadta was also analysed to augment gaps within the existing data including ‘Place of Publication’. This dataset was curated by students at University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.