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Catalogue description Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Obscenities: Registered Files (OB Series)
| Reference: | PF 316 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Obscenities: Registered Files (OB Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains files regarding censorship and the regulations against obscenities across different industries and topics. This includes sex shops; film and video; computer games; pornography and the internet. |
| Date: | 1982-2003 |
| Arrangement: |
The inclusion of a date preceding or following a file number (eg. OB 30/1/5 (95)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first sub-file was raised on a particular subject. |
| Related material: |
For related Home Office records regarding indecent publications (IPN series) see HO 302 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | OB Prefix |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017 Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997 Home Office, 1782- |
| Physical description: | 179 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
| Custodial history: | Files inherited from the Home Office, following the transfer of broadcasting responsibilities in 1992 to the Department for National Heritage |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
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