ECM Advent Calendar Window 1 : Guess the year game

Electronic Collections Management

Dec 1

Christmas seems to come around faster each year.

For our first Advent Calendar window we have a game for you. Read the quotes below (all taken from newspaper and journal articles available in iDiscover) and put them in the order in which they were published. The answers will be at the bottom of the page.

1 "But the shopkeeper's biggest time undoubtedly is the Christmas shopping season, which he will soon succeed in pushing back to midsummer. Let us be thankful that for the moment we have only three months of continuous Christmas in the shops."

2 "Cultural influences on consumption are attracting increasing attention. In particular, interest in the rich phenomenon of Christmas consumption has grown."

3 "Once upon a time it would have seemed absurd to discuss Christmas shopping at the end of November, but nowadays the shops get their counters and windows much earlier than that."

4 "Christmas creep, the retail phenomenon of stores promoting Christmas merchandise earlier and earlier, seems to have elbowed its way past Halloween this year, and pushed aside the plastic pumpkins from store shelves."

5 "As basically an order taker and drop shipper, Santa Claus never has marketing problems and never runs into their public policy implications, such as providing product information and meeting toy safety standards."

6 "With but a week to go before Christmas closes the shops, Manchester gives every indication of having done the major part of it's buying in good time. The search for the elusive gift still continues, but the pace of the hunt appears less furious than it has been in other years"

7 "With the approach of Christmas an increased stress of work presses heavily on shopkeepers and their assistants. In these days of intensified competition it is not surprising that shops are kept open late at night…"

The quotes above came from publications in our electronic collection.

You can access articles through iDiscover.

We also have a Newspaper LibGuide with titles separated into lists of archives and current titles, and a newspaper page, with British and overseas and foreign language titles listed on separate lists.

Answers:
7 (1900), 3 (1924), 6 (1943), 1 (1955), 5 (1976), 2 (1990), 4 (2021)

Photo by RDNE Stock project: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-santa-outfit-reading-a-letter-6260304/

Photo by Any Lane: https://www.pexels.com/photo/decorative-advent-calendar-with-christmas-illustration-in-house-5727795/