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Neil Hughes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Neil Hughes is a retired British Liberal Democrat councillor. From 1964 to 2026, he was one of fourteen participants whose lives were documented in the Up documentary film series.

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“Neil Hughes” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Neil, Hughes and Open-knowledge 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—1964, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Neil, Hughes and Open-knowledge.
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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 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neil Hughes” 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.