Catalogue description Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Entertainments: Registered Files (ENT Series)
Reference: | PF 310 |
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Title: | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Entertainments: Registered Files (ENT Series) |
Description: |
This series contains files regarding regulatory matters on entertainments, specifically cinema and theatre licensing. |
Date: | 1984-2000 |
Related material: |
For additional records relating to the management and administration of entertainment see HO 300 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | ENT |
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- Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986 |
Physical description: | 2 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
Custodial history: | Home Office; Department for National Heritage 1992-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Upon the establishment of the Department for National Heritage in 1992, responsibility for entertainments licensing (a broad category encompassing Sunday entertainments, Sunday observance, Sunday trading restrictions and 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) was transferred from the Home Office. Under the responsibility of the Department for National Heritage and subsequently the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the same prefixes (ENT, Entertainment) was utilised, as had been done previously. |
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