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Oh What a Lovely War

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ7080563 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oh What a Lovely War may refer to:

Oh, What a Lovely War!, a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop

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Editorial summary

“Oh What a Lovely War” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what What, Lovely and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around What, Lovely and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Oh What a Lovely War” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, What, Lovely and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7080563. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963.

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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oh What a Lovely War” 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.