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- 1 2 3 4 Andrew Murray Scott and Iain Macleay, Britain's Secret War, pp.28-32
- 1 2 3 Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present, p.172
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- ↑ Ed. Michael Ekers et al, Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics
- 1 2 Warwick Rodwell, The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone, p.260
- ↑ Ed. Alan Norman Bold, The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, p.729
- ↑ Edward J. Cowan, For Freedom Alone: The Declaration of Arbroath