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1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election

UK by-election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ7492674 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom on 10 May 1939 for the House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Hallam in Yorkshire. The Conservative Party held the seat.

Editorial summary

“1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election” enters the record as uK by-election. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sheffield, Hallam and by-election can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sheffield, Hallam and by-election.
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Why this record matters

“1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sheffield, Hallam and by-election provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7492674. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “1939 Sheffield Hallam by-election” 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.