A breakaway from the
Scots National League, the SNM was a small,
Edinburgh-based group led by
Lewis Spence. Like Spence, its followers were mainly literary figures evincing a romantic, nostalgic nationalism typical of the period. The SNM aimed to re-establish a
Scottish Parliament and an independent state within the
British Empire. As a matter of tactics, it gave its support to any measure directed towards
Home Rule. It was active in the negotiations from which the National Party of Scotland emerged, and into which the SNM merged.
Further reading
Barberis, Peter, McHugh, John and Tyldesley, Mike, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, Bloomsbury, 2005
Brand, Jack, The National Movement in Scotland, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978
Richard J. Finlay, Independent and Free: Scottish Politics and the Origins of the Scottish National Party 1918-1945, John Donald Publishers, 1994