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Catalogue description Home Office: Entertainments (ENT Symbol Series) Files
| Reference: | HO 300 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Home Office: Entertainments (ENT Symbol Series) Files |
| Description: |
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. |
| Date: | 1951-2002 |
| 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. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | ENT Symbol file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Home Office, Civil Defence and Fire Service Department, 1962-1964 Home Office, Fire Department, 1964- Home Office, Fire Service Department, 1941-1962 Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986 |
| Physical description: | 461 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2019 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport From 1985 Home Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: | 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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