Catalogue description Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 320
Reference: HO 320
Title: Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files
Description:

Files from the Home Office BGL (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries) series. The Home Office has general responsibility for the regulation of betting, gaming and lotteries, exercised mainly through local authorities, the police, and boards. Many of the responsibilities were generated by the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming. The files in this series deal mainly with the preparation of legislation.

Date: 1944-1995
Arrangement:

The papers in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before or after a file number (as in 1/23/1(1963)) 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.

Related material:

Records of the Royal Commission on Gambling are in BS 3

Annual reports of the Gaming Board for Great Britain are in HO 224

Records of the Aglionby Inquiry into the Horserace Totalisator Board in HO 270

Records of the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming are in HO 335

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: BGL Symbol file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2017-

Home Office, 1782-

Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986

Physical description: 510 file(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Gaming Board for Great Britain closed and was replaced by the Gambling Commission in 2007.

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