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- 1 2 Flett, Keith (2006). Chartism After 1848. Monmouth: Merlin Press. p. 207. ISBN 0850365392.
- ↑ Annual Report of the London Trades Council (1862 and 1863)
- ↑ E. P. Thompson, William Morris, pp.281-282