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- ↑ "Carlton Club bombed by IRA". bufvc.ac.uk. British Universities Film & Video Council. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ↑ "Lord Lexden, historian of the Carlton Club, pays tribute to Margaret Thatcher on behalf of the Club". Lord Lexden OBE. 9 April 2013.