1. M. Camps, Britain and the European Community 1955–1963 (London, 1964).
2. The two most significant works on British policy from June to December 1955 remain S. Burgess and G. Edwards, ‘The Six plus One: British Policy Making and the Question of European Economic Integration, 1955’, International Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 3 (1988), pp. 393–413
3. J.W. Young, ‘“The Parting of the Ways”? Britain, the Messina Conference and the Spaak Committee, June-December 1955’, in M. Dockrill and J.W. Young (eds), British Foreign Policy 1945–56 (London, 1989), pp. 197–224.
4. On the historiographical trend see A. Lane, ‘Diplomatic History’, in L.J. Butler and A. Gorst (eds), Modern British History: a Guide to Study and Research (London, 1997), pp. 168–82, esp. p. 178;
5. and J.W. Young, ‘Britain and “Europe”: the Shape of the Historiographical Debate’ in B. Brivati, J. Buxton and A. Seldon (eds), The Contemporary History Handbook (Manchester, 1996), pp. 207–14.