Catalogue description Home Office: Indecent Publications (IPN Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 302
Reference: HO 302
Title: Home Office: Indecent Publications (IPN Symbol Series) Files
Description:

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.

Date: 1953-1990
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.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IPN Symbol file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 95 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1985 Home Office

Accruals: Series is accruing

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