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Dodge, Jenny, Silken weave: a history of ribbon making in Coventry (Coventry, 1998).

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Articles in Scholarly Journals:

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Ewart, Henrietta, ‘“Coventry Irish”: Community, Class, Culture and Narrative in the Formation of a Migrant Identity, 1940–1970’, Midland History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2013), pp. 225-244.

Gill, Miriam, and Morris, Richard K., ‘A Wall Painting of the Apocalypse in Coventry Rediscovered’, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 143, No. 1181 (Aug, 2001), pp. 467-473.

Gill, Robert, ‘From the Black Prince to the Silver Prince: Relocating Mediaeval Coventry’, Twentieth Century Architecture, No. 7 (2004), pp. 60-86.

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Hunt, Cathy, ‘Tea and Sympathy: A Study of Diversity among Women Activists in the National Federation of Women Workers in Coventry, England, 1907-14’, International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 72 (Fall, 2007), pp. 173-191.

Hurwich J., 'A Fanatick Town: The Political Influence Of Dissenters In Coventry 1660-1720', Midland History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1977), pp. 15-47.

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Leech, Donald, ‘Stability and Change at the End of the Middle Ages: Coventry, 1450–1525’, Midland History, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2013), pp. 1-21.

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