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Bridge Great Britain

British card game organisation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2023
Entity authorityQ17986069 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bridge Great Britain is an organisation which was formed to continue the organisational functions of the British Bridge League from 1 January 2000 when that body was dissolved at the end of 1999. It organises the Gold Cup and several annual international bridge competitions between teams representing England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; including the Camrose Trophy and like events.

Editorial summary

“Bridge Great Britain” enters the record as british card game organisation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bridge, Great and Britain can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bridge, Great and Britain.
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“Bridge Great Britain” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bridge, Great and Britain provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q17986069. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bridge Great Britain” 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.