Attitudes to the wartime Sunday opening of cinemas and theatres, and to a change in the law to permit Sunday opening (2498)

Type of Data: Attitudes to the wartime Sunday opening of cinemas and theatres, and to a change in the law to permit Sunday opening (2498)

Faith Community: General

Date: 1944, January

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 1451

Population: Adults aged 21 and over

Keywords: Cinemas, legislation, Second World War, Sunday, theatres

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion. BIPO was established by George Gallup in 1936 to run the British Gallup Poll

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

News Chronicle, 7 February 1944

The National Archives, Inf. 1/292, Part 4, fos. 332-3, 'Ministry of Information Home Intelligence Weekly Report', No. 174, 3 February 1944

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 87

BRIN ID: 2498

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 2043 and SN 3331 and at the Roper Center as GBBIPO44-105

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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