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Series
Home Office: Entertainments (ENT Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 300
What's it about?
HO 300
Files from the Home Office ENT (Entertainments) series. They are from the Home Office General and Fire Departments, and relate to the Home Office's involvement in matters relating to entertainment, including such subjects as Sunday entertainments...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 300
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Entertainments (ENT Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1951-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office ENT (Entertainments) series. They are from the Home Office General and Fire Departments, and relate to the Home Office's involvement in matters relating to entertainment, including such subjects as Sunday entertainments (Sunday observance, Sunday trading restrictions, 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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Pieces 1-11 within this series are arranged by departmental file number and pieces 12 onwards (with the exception of piece 91) are arranged by departmental file number within overyears.
The inclusion of a date preceding or following a file number (eg. ENT 25/3/43(61)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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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)
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ENT Symbol file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, Civil Defence and Fire Service Department, 1962-1964
- Home Office, Fire Department, 1964-1964
- Home Office, Fire Service Department, 1941-1962
- Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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461 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2019 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
From 1985 Home Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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These records are from the Home Office General and Fire Departments and HomeOffice ENT (Entertainments) series. Later inherited by the Department forDigital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9164/
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Home Office: Entertainments (ENT Symbol Series) Files
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