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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Entertainments:...

Catalogue reference: PF 310

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PF 310

This series contains files regarding regulatory matters on entertainments, specifically cinema and theatre licensing.

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Reference

PF 310

Title
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Entertainments: Registered Files (ENT Series)
Date

1984-2000

Description

This series contains files regarding regulatory matters on entertainments, specifically cinema and theatre licensing.

Related material

For additional records relating to the management and administration of entertainment see HO 300

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

ENT

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017
  • Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997
  • Home Office, 1782-1782
  • Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986
Physical description

2 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Subjects
Topics
Photography and film
Sports
Custodial history

Home Office; Department for National Heritage 1992-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

Upon the establishment of the Department for National Heritage in 1992, responsibility for entertainments licensing (a broad category encompassing Sunday entertainments, Sunday observance, Sunday trading restrictions and Sunday opening); censorship; licensing and registration of buildings, places of entertainment and theatrical employees; safety of places of entertainment, including sports grounds; and legislative practice for the control of music, dancing and other entertainments) was transferred from the Home Office. Under the responsibility of the Department for National Heritage and subsequently the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the same prefixes (ENT, Entertainment) was utilised, as had been done previously.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17593469/

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