- D'ye ken John Peel? - http://home.mweb.co.za/sa/salbu/JohnPeel.html
Lyrics and history of this famous song and 'Horn of the Hunter'. Listen to the melody on Windows Media Player.
- Hunting Poetry - http://www.huntfacts.com/Poetry.htm
Selection of poems about the fox and foxhunting by WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Will H Ogilvie, Beatrice Holden, Phil Stevenson, Miss M. Wynter, D.W. Nash, Whyte-Melville and John Masefield.
- Kipling - The Fox Meditates - http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_foxhunting.htm
Poem by Rudyard Kipling reflecting on the history of fox hunting in England.
- Exmoor Oral History Archive: Tom Yandle (18 October 2001) - http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/yandle.htm
Summary of his oral history recordings about his life of hunting including his chairmanship of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Masters of Deer Hounds Association. He was also High Sheriff of Somerset and on both the National Trust and National Park Committees.
- Sassoon, The Old Huntsman - http://www.bartleby.com/135/1.html
Poem by Siegfried Sassoon from his book of poetry The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918).
- The Toll Gate: Fox-Hunting - http://www.heyerlist.org/tollgate/foxhunting.html
Background information and historical notes about foxhunting as used in Georgette Heyer's novel The Toll Gate, written in 1953 and set in 1817.
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