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- ↑ http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/perryMat.html Archived 2006-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Historical Research. Matt Perry. University of Sunderland
- ↑ Michael Newman, John Strachey, Manchester University Press, 1989 ISBN 071902174X (p.83).
