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- ↑ "New year honours". Times Higher Education (THE). 2 January 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ↑ Jon Edgar: The Human Clay, Exhibition catalogue, University of Surrey 16 Nov-22 Dec 2011, University of Surrey: summarised online in http://jonedgar.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/2011-works-the-human-clay-exhibition/
- ↑ Grayburn, Patricia (1990). Gertrud Bodenwieser: 1890-1959 : a celebratory monograph on the 100th anniversary of her birth. National Resource Centre for Dance. OCLC 556729169.
- ↑ "THE HUMAN CLAY - University of Surrey - Guildford". Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
