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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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Correspondence with Home Office
Catalogue reference: HO 265/65
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This record is about the Correspondence with Home Office dating from 1978-1979 in the series Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship: Evidence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 265/65
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1978-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence with Home Office
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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)
- IPN 77 15/6/45
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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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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Closed Until 2005
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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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- Topics
- Sex and gender
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4285886/
Series information
HO 265
Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship: Evidence and Papers
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