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- ↑ "International Women's Day celebrates the life of Mary Barbour". BBC News. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ↑ "Red Clydeside: Mary Barbour". sites.scran.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ↑ "Mary Barbour | Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland". womenofscotland.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ↑ "Class War on the Homes Front: The Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915 | Leftcom". www.leftcom.org. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ↑ Melling, Joseph (1983). Rent Strikes: Peoples' Struggle for Housing in West Scotland 1890-1916. Polygon. p. 64. ISBN 0904919722.
- ↑ "Women on the Left: Mary Barbour |". 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Council housing". www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
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