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1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season

Bradford City A.F.C. 1929–30 football season

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2022
Entity authorityQ96361642 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 23rd in the club's history.

The club finished 18th in Division Two, and reached the 5th round of the FA Cup.

Sources

Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season” is bradford City A.F.C. 1929–30 football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bradford, City and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 1988, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bradford, City and season is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “bradford City A.F.C. 1929–30 football season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q96361642. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1988 and 1903.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season primary sources, 1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season archive and Bradford research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “1929–30 Bradford City A.F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.