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- ↑ K. O. Morgan, "New Outlook for a New Wales", Welsh Outlook, 1 (April 1965), p.3.
- ↑ K. O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980, New York: Oxford University Press & University of Wales Press, 1981, p.371.
- ↑ Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986), p. 632.
