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James Hilton

Topics referred to by the same term

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2023
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

James Hilton may refer to:James Hilton (academic), Vice Provost and University Librarian & Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan

James Hilton (designer), English designer

James Hilton (novelist) (1900–1954), English novelist

Jimmy Hilton (1883–1943), English rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s

James L. Hilton, astronomer

Editorial summary

“James Hilton” enters the record as topics referred to by the same term. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Hilton and Topics 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—1900, 1954, 1883, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around James, Hilton and Topics.
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Why this record matters

“James Hilton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, James, Hilton and Topics provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2023. The first chronological checks are 1900, 1954, 1883 and 1943.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “James Hilton” 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.