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- ↑ Biagini, Eugenio F. (2004). Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880. Cambridge University Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780521548861 . Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ Bauman, Zygmunt, Between Class and Elite: The Evolution British Labour Movement, Manchester University Press, 1972, p.108
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