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- ↑ The Labour Annual (1896), pp. 40–41
- 1 2 F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918, p. xvi
- ↑ "I.L.p. Candidates: the official list", Manchester Guardian , 10 December 1909
- ↑ The New Hazell Annual and Almanack, vol.26, p. 361
- ↑ Independent Labour Party, Report of the Annual Conference (1919), pp. 28–29
- 1 2 3 4 Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1920), pp. 14–15
- ↑ Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1923), pp. 39–41
- ↑ Clare V. J. Griffiths, Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918–1939, p. 1
- ↑ Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp. 46–51
- ↑ Independent Labour Party, Annual Report (1924), pp. 12–13
- ↑ ILP, Annual Report (1925), pp. 57–61
- 1 2 Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1925), pp. 25–27
- 1 2 Labour Party, "Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1928), pp. 11–17
- ↑ Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 15–19. 1929.
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- ↑ Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 24–44. 1929.
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- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party (1931), p. 295; Josiah Wedgwood omitted as he was not affiliated with the ILp.
- F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987