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Q&A How can I research non-recent 21st century cultural events?

I don't know if it exists in your country, but as a graduate student in the USA, I once researched 3 years worth of newspaper headlines in four "national" papers (e.g. The New York Times), and I fo...

posted 5y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T13:13:35Z (almost 5 years ago)
I don't know if it exists in your country, but as a graduate student in the USA, I once researched 3 years worth of newspaper headlines in four "national" papers (e.g. The New York Times), and I found those all in free online archives. My goal was different (looking for major news stories headlined in all four on the same day), but the idea is just to see if you can find (online) old newspapers for the days you have in question.

Any cultural events should have been advertised, either as a public service or by the organizers to get people there. Sometimes newspaper websites will let you find their headlines for a specific date (like your birthday).

If your characters are adventurous enough, they might go attend a free park concert, or a play in a local playhouse, or some band they never heard of that was advertised by a club. Perhaps a sporting event.

Look through a few weeks in the papers for some event, and you can either make their visit on that day, or take some liberty and relocate the event to a date you need; nobody is going to fact-check you. All you are interested in is the **kind** of events that city really has, it doesn't have to be a specific real-life event that happened.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-11-10T14:38:33Z (about 5 years ago)
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