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</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">23 June 1928</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Dissolved</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">7 April 1934</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Scots_National_League" title="Scots National League">Scots National League</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Movement" title="Scottish National Movement">Scottish National Movement</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Scottish_Nationalist_Association" title="Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association">Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Merged into</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_nationalism" title="Scottish nationalism">Scottish nationalism</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Centre-left_politics" title="Centre-left politics">Centre-left</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="padding-top:0;"><style 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li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid yellow;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Scotland" title="Politics of Scotland">Politics of Scotland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Scotland" title="List of political parties in Scotland">Political parties</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Scotland" title="Elections in Scotland">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>National Party of Scotland (NPS)</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Centre-left" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre-left">centre-left</a> <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political party</a> in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> which was one of the predecessors of the current <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (SNP). The NPS was the first <a href="/wiki/Scottish_nationalism" title="Scottish nationalism">Scottish nationalist</a> political party, and the first which campaigned for Scottish <a href="/wiki/Self-determination" title="Self-determination">self-determination</a>. </p><p>The National Party of Scotland was founded in 1928 by the amalgamation of the <a href="/wiki/Scots_National_League" title="Scots National League">Scots National League</a> (SNL), the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Movement" title="Scottish National Movement">Scottish National Movement</a> (SNM) and the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Scottish_Nationalist_Association" title="Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association">Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association</a> (GUSNA). The NPS emerged from the consensus among members of these groups, and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Home_Rule_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scottish Home Rule Association (page does not exist)">Scottish Home Rule Association</a>, that an independent political party, free of any connections to any existing parties, was the best way forward for achieving <a href="/wiki/History_of_Scottish_devolution" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Scottish devolution">Scottish Home Rule</a>. </p><p>The NPS contested the <a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a> and <a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom general election">United Kingdom general elections</a>, and a number of <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-elections</a>. In 1934 the NPS merged with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Party" title="Scottish Party">Scottish Party</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (SNP). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_history">Origins and history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The NPS was formed in 1928 after <a href="/wiki/John_MacCormick" title="John MacCormick">John MacCormick</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Scottish_Nationalist_Association" title="Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association">Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association</a> called a meeting of all those favouring the establishment of a party favouring Scottish <a href="/wiki/Home_Rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Rule">Home Rule</a>. The meeting was presided over by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bontine_Cunninghame_Graham" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham">Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham</a>, who had been a <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party_(1888-1893)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party (1888-1893)">Scottish Labour Party</a> politician. The NPS was formed by the amalgamation of GUSNA with the <a href="/wiki/Scots_National_League" title="Scots National League">Scots National League</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Spence" title="Lewis Spence">Lewis Spence</a>'s Scots National Movement and the Scottish Home Rule Movement.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 June an inauguration took place in Stirling.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The NPS was a left-of-centre party. The celebrated poet, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid" title="Hugh MacDiarmid">Hugh MacDiarmid</a> was a member, but was expelled on account of his communist views (ironically, he would later be expelled from the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist Party of Great Britain</a> for his Scottish Nationalist beliefs). Other figures besides MacDiarmid were involved. <a href="/wiki/Eric_Linklater" title="Eric Linklater">Eric Linklater</a> stood as an NPS candidate in the <a href="/wiki/1933_East_Fife_by-election" title="1933 East Fife by-election">1933 East Fife by-election</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gunn" class="mw-redirect" title="Neil Gunn">Neil Gunn</a> played a role in aiding the NPS amalgamation with the Scottish Party. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Merger">Merger</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Merger"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1932 a home rule organisation, the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Party" title="Scottish Party">Scottish Party</a>, was formed by former members of the then <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist Party</a>, precursor of the modern <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_and_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party">Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party</a>. MacCormick desired unity amongst the Scottish Nationalist movement and made contact with the Scottish Party. Increasingly the two parties began to co-operate, and when the Scottish Party chose to contest the <a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock" title="Kilmarnock">Kilmarnock</a> by-election in November 1933 the NPS endorsed their candidate. In 1934 the NPS and Scottish Party merged to form the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leaders_of_the_National_Party_of_Scotland">Leaders of the National Party of Scotland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Leaders of the National Party of Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a>, (1928–1932?)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_performance">Electoral performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Spence" title="Lewis Spence">Lewis Spence</a> was the first nationalist to stand for election. He contested <a href="/wiki/Midlothian_and_Peebles_Northern_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)">Midlothian and Peebles Northern</a> at a <a href="/wiki/1929_Midlothian_and_Peebles_Northern_by-election" title="1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election">by-election in 1929</a> and came fourth, with 4.5% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-craig1918-1949_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1918-1949-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Westminster Elections </th> <th>Candidates standing</th> <th>Seats won</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>% Scottish vote</th> <th>Saved deposits </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929 General Election</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>3,313</td> <td>0.5</td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931 General Election</a></td> <td>5</td> <td>0</td> <td>20,954</td> <td>1.0</td> <td>3 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The NPS contested many elections in its short existence but never managed to get any of its candidates elected to parliament. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By-elections,_1929"><span id="By-elections.2C_1929"></span>By-elections, 1929</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: By-elections, 1929"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>By-election</th> <th>Candidate</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>%</th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_Midlothian_and_Peebles_Northern_by-election" title="1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election">1929 Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Spence, Lewis"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Spence" title="Lewis Spence">Lewis Spence</a></span></span></span></td> <td>842</td> <td>4.5</td> <td>4 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1929_general_election">1929 general election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1929 general election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Constituency</th> <th>Candidate</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>%</th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Camlachie_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Camlachie (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Camlachie</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="MacCormick, John"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_MacCormick" title="John MacCormick">John MacCormick</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1,646</td> <td>4.9</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">West Renfrewshire</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Muirhead, Roland"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1,667</td> <td>5.4</td> <td>4 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By-elections,_1929-1931"><span id="By-elections.2C_1929-1931"></span>By-elections, 1929-1931</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: By-elections, 1929-1931"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>By-election</th> <th>Candidate</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>%</th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1930_Glasgow_Shettleston_by-election" title="1930 Glasgow Shettleston by-election">1930 Glasgow Shettleston by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="McNicol, John"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn">John McNicol</span></span></span></td> <td>2,527</td> <td>10.1</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1930_East_Renfrewshire_by-election" title="1930 East Renfrewshire by-election">1930 East Renfrewshire by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Brown, Oliver"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Oliver_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="William Oliver Brown">Oliver Brown</a></span></span></span></td> <td>4,818</td> <td>13.1</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_Glasgow_St_Rollox_by-election" title="1931 Glasgow St Rollox by-election">1931 Glasgow St Rollox by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Campbell, Elma"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Elma_Campbell" title="Elma Campbell">Elma Campbell</a></span></span></span></td> <td>3,521</td> <td>15.8</td> <td>3 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931_general_election">1931 general election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1931 general election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Constituency</th> <th>Candidate</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>%</th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">East Renfrewshire</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Brown, Oliver"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Oliver_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="William Oliver Brown">Oliver Brown</a></span></span></span></td> <td>6,498</td> <td>13.9</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Alexander, T. T."><span class="vcard"><span class="fn">T. T. Alexander</span></span></span></td> <td>2,872</td> <td>9.4</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_St_Rollox_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow St Rollox (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow St Rollox</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Campbell, Elma"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Elma_Campbell" title="Elma Campbell">Elma Campbell</a></span></span></span></td> <td>3,521</td> <td>13.3</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Inverness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverness (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverness</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="MacCormick, John"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_MacCormick" title="John MacCormick">John MacCormick</a></span></span></span></td> <td>4,016</td> <td>14.0</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">West Renfrewshire</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Muirhead, Roland"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a></span></span></span></td> <td>3,547</td> <td>11.0</td> <td>3 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By-elections,_1931-1933"><span id="By-elections.2C_1931-1933"></span>By-elections, 1931-1933</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: By-elections, 1931-1933"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>By-election</th> <th>Candidate</th> <th>Votes</th> <th>%</th> <th>Position </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1932_Dunbartonshire_by-election" title="1932 Dunbartonshire by-election">1932 Dunbartonshire by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Gray, Robert"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gray_(Scottish_politician)" title="Robert Gray (Scottish politician)">Robert Gray</a></span></span></span></td> <td>5,178</td> <td>13.4</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1932_Montrose_Burghs_by-election" title="1932 Montrose Burghs by-election">1932 Montrose Burghs by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Emslie, Douglas"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Douglas Emslie</span></span></span></td> <td>1,966</td> <td>11.7</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1933_East_Fife_by-election" title="1933 East Fife by-election">1933 East Fife by-election</a></td> <td><span data-sort-value="Linklater, Eric"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Linklater" title="Eric Linklater">Eric Linklater</a></span></span></span></td> <td>1,083</td> <td>3.6</td> <td>5 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Party_of_Scotland&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Brand, Jack, <i>The National Movement in Scotland</i>, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978</li> <li>Brand, Jack, ‘Scotland’, in Watson, Michael (ed.), <i>Contemporary Minority Nationalism</i>, Routledge, 1990</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_J._Finlay" title="Richard J. Finlay">Richard J. Finlay</a>, <i>Independent and Free: Scottish Politics and the Origins of the Scottish National Party 1918-1945</i>, John Donald Publishers, 1994</li> <li>Hanham, H.J., <i>Scottish Nationalism</i>, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, 1969</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Harvie" title="Christopher Harvie">Christopher Harvie</a>, <i>Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present</i>, Routledge (4th edition), 2004</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Hassan" title="Gerry Hassan">Gerry Hassan</a> (ed.), <i>The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power</i>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_University_Press" title="Edinburgh University Press">Edinburgh University Press</a>, 2009, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0748639918" title="Special:BookSources/0748639918">0748639918</a></li> <li>Lloyd-Jones, N., "Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home Rule crisis, c.1886-1893", "English Historical Review" (August 2014)</li> <li>Lynch, Peter, <i>SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party</i>, Welsh Academic Press, 2002</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_MacCormick" title="John MacCormick">John MacCormick</a>, <i>The Flag in the Wind: The Story of the National Movement in Scotland</i>, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" title="Victor Gollancz Ltd">Victor Gollancz Ltd</a>, 1955</li> <li>Mitchell, James, <i>The Scottish Question</i>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2014</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Milne">Milne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wolfe_(politician)" title="Billy Wolfe (politician)">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Leslie_(politician)" title="George Leslie (politician)">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Henderson_(SNP_politician)" title="Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_MacDonald" title="Margo MacDonald">MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Henderson_(SNP_politician)" title="Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Fairlie_(politician,_born_1940)" title="Jim Fairlie (politician, born 1940)">Fairlie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Ewing" title="Margaret Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Salmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alasdair_Morgan" title="Alasdair Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a 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background-color:#FDF38E;;width:1%">Presidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cunninghame_Graham" title="Cunninghame Graham">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Muirhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Gibson_(Scottish_politician)" title="Tom Gibson (Scottish politician)">Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_McIntyre_(politician)" title="Robert McIntyre (politician)">McIntyre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wolfe_(politician)" title="Billy Wolfe (politician)">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Stewart_(Scottish_politician)" title="Donald Stewart (Scottish politician)">Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winnie_Ewing" title="Winnie Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Hudghton" title="Ian Hudghton">Hudghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Russell_(Scottish_politician)" title="Michael Russell (Scottish 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title="1979 Scottish National Party leadership election">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 Scottish National Party leadership election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2000 Scottish National Party leadership election">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2003 Scottish National Party leadership election">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2004 Scottish National Party leadership election">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2014 Scottish National Party leadership election">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2023 Scottish National Party leadership election">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Scottish_National_Party_leadership_election" title="2024 Scottish 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