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- 1 2 3 4 P. Conford, 'Finance versus Farming: Rural Reconstruction and Economic Reform 1894-1955', Rural History, 2002, Vol.13 No.2, p. 229
- 1 2 3 Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, 2002, p. 32
- ↑ Conford, 'Finance versus Farming', pp. 229-30
- ↑ Conford, 'Finance versus Farming', p. 230
- ↑ Conford, 'Finance versus Farming', p. 233
- ↑ G. Macklin, Very Deeply Dyed in Black, New York: IB Tauris, 2007, p. 66
- ↑ Agricultural Policy debates from Hansard
