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Statue of Viscount Alanbrooke, London

statue in Whitehall, London

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ19590532 ↗
Source-derived summary

The statue of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, by Ivor Roberts-Jones, was unveiled in Whitehall, London, in 1993.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Statue of Viscount Alanbrooke, London” is statue in Whitehall, London. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Statue, Viscount and Alanbrooke, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. For this dossier, Statue, Viscount and Alanbrooke is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “statue in Whitehall, London” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19590532. Authority coordinates are 51.504, -0.126. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Statue of Viscount Alanbrooke, London” 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.