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Series
Home Office: Indecent Publications (IPN Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 302
What's it about?
HO 302
Files from the Home Office IPN (Indecent Publications) symbol series relating to policy and legislation concerning obscene publications, advertisments and public displays and the provision of information and guidance to the public about the law...
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 302
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Indecent Publications (IPN Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1953-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office IPN (Indecent Publications) symbol series relating to policy and legislation concerning obscene publications, advertisments and public displays and the provision of information and guidance to the public about the law relating to obscene publications.
n addition to initiating changes in policy or legislation the files relate to the Home Offce's involvement in the preparation and passage of legislation itself such as the Obscene Publications Act 1959 & 1964 and the Children and Young Persons (Harmful) Publications Act 1955.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The inclusion of a date preceding or following a file number (eg. IPN 30/1/5 (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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IPN 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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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175 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 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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- Topics
- Children
- Sex and gender
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9166/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,719,919 records
Within the department: HO
Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related...
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Home Office: Indecent Publications (IPN Symbol Series) Files
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