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Queer classified adverts and love letters in the 1920s
In an era when the law criminalised your love, how was it possible to meet members of the same sex and communicate?
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Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Obscenities: Registered...
Catalogue reference: PF 316
What's it about?
PF 316
This series contains files regarding censorship and the regulations against obscenities across different industries and topics. This includes sex shops; film and video; computer games; pornography and the internet.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PF 316
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Obscenities: Registered Files (OB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1982-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files regarding censorship and the regulations against obscenities across different industries and topics. This includes sex shops; film and video; computer games; pornography and the internet.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The inclusion of a date preceding or following a file number (eg. OB 30/1/5 (95)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first sub-file was raised on a particular subject.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related Home Office records regarding indecent publications (IPN series) see HO 302
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- OB Prefix
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017
- Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 179 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Files inherited from the Home Office, following the transfer of broadcasting responsibilities in 1992 to the Department for National Heritage
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17592896/
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