It amalgamated with other Scottish nationalist bodies in 1928 to form the National Party of Scotland.
[1] 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.
It was active in the negotiations from which the National Party of Scotland emerged, and into which the SNM merged.