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- ↑ Goodway, David (1984). "The Metivier Collection and the Books of George Julian Harney". Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History. 49.
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- ↑ Goodway, David (2020). "The Foundation and Early Years of the Powys Society". Powys Journal. 30.
- ↑ Goodway, David, ed. (2007). The letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman. Cecil Woolf.
- ↑ "Friends of Freedom Press Ltd". Companies House. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Goodway, David (2015). "Freedom, 1886-2014: An Appreciation". History Workshop Journal. 79.
