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Drawer CULTURE

The Culture drawer holds 20 records, the second largest of the seven and 16 per cent of everything held in a drawer. They run from June 2017 to February 2018. 14 of them carry a 2017 filing date. The heaviest single month is July 2017, with six.

Film, television and music, and the celebrity and sports-personality items that ran beside them. The drawers are subject classes rather than departments, so a record appears once, in the drawer it was reported under. Each keeps the address it was published at, with its filing date printed on it.

How the drawer fills

The 20 records sit across eight calendar months inside a span of nine, so the drawer was worked in bursts rather than kept up month by month. That is 2.5 records for each month the drawer was open. The earliest filing is Mimicry Artist Kalabhavan Sajan Passes Away at 50; the latest is Eurovision-2018: Melovin to represent Ukraine.

The archive as a whole covers 43 months. This drawer was open in 50 per cent of the months anything was filed at all, and it is one of the drawers the archive opens with. Sparse drawers are kept as they were found rather than merged into fuller ones: the address a record was published at is the thing worth preserving, and folding a drawer away would break the path that leads to it.

Terms that recur

These words appear in more than one filed headline in this drawer. They are counted off the titles as they were published, so they show what the drawer was actually used for rather than what its label promises — the strongest is fire, on two of the 20.

Filed alongside

In the same months that this drawer was open, the desk was also filing into Worldwide (46), Economy (10) and Sport (9). A record is filed once, in the drawer it was reported under, so a subject that straddles two classes sits in one of them and is reachable from the full index either way.

The other drawers are above. The full index — all 127 catalogued records, with a filter that reads titles, drawers and dates at once — is on the archive index.

Questions about the Culture drawer

How many records are in the Culture drawer?

20, filed between June 2017 and February 2018. That is 16 per cent of the 124 records held in drawers, making it the second largest of the seven. The full index carries 127.

Which years does the Culture drawer cover?

2017, 2018. 14 of the 20 carry a 2017 date, more than any other year. The heaviest single month is July 2017, with six filings.

What else was being filed alongside Culture?

Worldwide (46 records), Economy (10 records), Sport (9 records). A record is filed once, in the drawer it was reported under, so a subject that straddles two classes sits in only one of them.

What is the earliest Culture record?

"Mimicry Artist Kalabhavan Sajan Passes Away at 50", filed 2017-06-19. The most recent is "Eurovision-2018: Melovin to represent Ukraine", filed 2018-02-25. Every record keeps the address it was published at, so the June 2017 to February 2018 range is browsable by date from the full index.

2018

6 records

Six records, January to February, 30 per cent of the drawer.

2017

14 records

14 records, June to November, 70 per cent of the drawer.