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List of people associated with the campaign for Scottish devolution

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ13281586 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of people associated with the campaign for Scottish devolution, also referred to as home rule; for example, signatories of the Claim of Right for Scotland.

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“List of people associated with the campaign for Scottish devolution” enters the record as wikimedia category. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, people and associated 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 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, people and associated.
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“List of people associated with the campaign for Scottish devolution” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, List, people and associated 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 Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13281586. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of people associated with the campaign for Scottish devolution” 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.