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- ↑ Proletcult, Eden Paul (1921)
- ↑ Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders, A. T. Lane (1995), p. 3
- 1 2 The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008), p. 687 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
- ↑ The Ruskin Debate: Their college or ours?, Socialist Worker Review 93, Duncan Hallas (1986)
- 1 2 Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley (2000), p. 157
- ↑ Koureas, Gabriel (5 July 2017). "Memory, Masculinity and National Identity in British Visual Culture, 1914?930 ": A Study of 'Unconquerable Manhood'. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-55855-6.
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