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The Scout Association

Scout organisation in the United Kingdom

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Scout Association is a council that registers local Scout groups, which "are autonomous charities affiliated to The Scout Association". The organisation and its affiliated local groups have the largest enrolment within the Scout Movement in the United Kingdom. Following the rapid development of the Scout Movement from 1907, Robert Baden-Powell formed an advisory council in 1910, which was incorporated by a royal charter in 1912 under its previous name of The Boy Scouts Association. It is a founding member organisation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.

Editorial summary

“The Scout Association” enters the record as scout organisation in the United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scout, Association and organisation 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—1907, 1910, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scout, Association and organisation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Scout Association” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scout, Association and organisation 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 Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1910 and 1912.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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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  • Locating named sources
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Scout Association”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Scout Association primary sources, The Scout Association archive and Scout research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Scout Association”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Scout Association” 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.