Orange County Archive

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127 records are catalogued here, 124 of them across 7 drawers, filed between June 2017 and December 2020. Each record keeps the address it was published at, with its filing date and drawer printed on it.

The collection is not a continuous run. Its 127 records fall in 16 of the 43 months the span covers, and 11 of those 16 sit end to end: June 2017 to April 2018 carries 122 records without a gap, January 2018 alone 17 of them. What comes after is a thin tail — five records across five separate months, one in each. Only Worldwide, Sport and Health Care carry anything at all past 2018.

Worldwide is the largest drawer at 58 records, 47 per cent of everything filed, and Health Care the smallest at four. The drawers are subject classes rather than departments, so a story can only sit in one of them: what each holds is set out below.

Drawers, their contents, and the number of records in each.
DrawerWhat it holdsRecordsShare of the largest drawer
WorldwideFederal and foreign affairs: courts, agencies, the United Nations, and the Washington news cycle of 2017 and 2018.58
CultureFilm, television and music, and the celebrity and sports-personality items that ran beside them.20
EconomyCompany results and share moves, corporate lawsuits, and the cost of things.14
SportBoxing, football and motorsport, including the odds quoted at the time.11
Sci-TechHandsets and consumer electronics, games, and vehicle launches.10
ScienceClimate readings, astronomy, and findings from the field.7
Health CarePublic-health measures and the services built around them.4

Local records are the exception. There are three, and they are listed on the Orange County reference rather than in a drawer of their own.

Every record carries the same four things: its catalogue reference, the drawer it was filed in, the date of the original report, and the address it was published at, which has not changed. Depth is where they differ, and the difference is worth knowing before following a link. Twenty of the 127 set their subject out in headed sections and answer the questions it raises; the remaining 107 are short entries, a few hundred words at most, which is what the original report supported. Where the text was too damaged to carry a claim, the entry is shorter rather than filled in.

2020

3 records

Three records, June to December, in Health Care (2) and Sport.

2019

2 records

Two records, February to April, in Worldwide and Sport.

2018

48 records

48 records, January to April. Fullest in Worldwide (21) and Economy (7).

2017

74 records

74 records, June to December. Fullest in Worldwide (36) and Culture (14).

Questions about the archive index

How many records does the archive index hold?

127, filed between June 2017 and December 2020. 124 of them sit in the seven subject drawers; the remaining three keep their own addresses without one.

Which years does the archive cover?

2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The run is uneven: June 2017 to April 2018 carries 122 records with no empty month, January 2018 alone 17 of them, and what follows is five records spread over five separate months.

Why are three records not in a drawer?

Three local records were reported under a heading that is not kept as a drawer here, because three records would make a near-empty page. They keep their published address and are listed above; the drawer address itself points at the Orange County reference instead.

How do I find a particular record?

The filter at the top of this page reads titles, drawers and filing dates at once, and the query stays in the address so a search can be linked. There is no A-Z listing: the 127 titles fall into 25 first-character groups, several of them holding one record, so an alphabetical index would repeat every link on the page for very little gain.