Resources 

• 'Welcome Gagarin' - Pathé newsreel on Gagarin's arrival in the UK and visit to the Soviet Exhibition at Earl's Court
• Gagarin at Earl’s Court (no sound) - Pathé newsreel on Gagarin's arrival in the UK and visit to the Soviet Exhibition at Earl's Court
• Manchester and London. Hail Gagarin - Pathé newsreel on Gagarin's visit to Manchester and London
• Video: John Zarnecki’s talk describing his (almost) meeting with Gagarin

• Magazine: 'Gagarin in Britain' article in the 20 July 1961 issue of Flight Magazine
• Newspaper: The Guardian reporting on a Gagarin related event at the corner house in Manchester in June 2009.
• Newspaper: 'The day the Space Race came to Trafford' - Personal recollecion in the Sale and Altrincham Messenger from October 2007
• Magazine: 'The Cruise of the Vostok' TIME Magazine article from April 1961
• A PDF from NASA containing translations of Russian radio and press reports of Gagarin’s flight
• An article from the Working Class Movement Library
• Vostok-1 page from RussianSpaceWeb.com

• Yuri Gagarin’s life in pictures (from http://www.russianarchives.com)
• Public Domain Clip Art site that claims it has public domain Gagarin pictures
• Rare images of Gagarin

Thanks to Gurbir Singh for his assistance in compiling this list.

• http://www.astronautix.com/astros/gagarin.htm
• http://www.rtc.ru/encyk/gagarin/main1.shtml  (Russian)
• http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/space-and-aviation/yury-gagarin/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yuri_gagarin
• www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok1.html
• www.russianarchives.com/gallery/gagarin
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sputnik_program
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vostok_programme

• http://visualrian.com

• RIA Novosti Russian News Agency – Ralph Gibson – London office
• Hulton Archives (Getty Images)

• ‘Starman - The truth behind the legend Yuri Gagarin’ – James Doran & Piers Bizony (ISBN 0-7475-3688-0)
• ‘My Brother Yuri’ – Valentin Gagarin (Windmill Books - out of print)
• ‘Road to the Stars’ – Yuri Gagarin
• ‘Soviet man in Space’ – Yuri Gagarin
• ‘One Small Step’ – David Whitehouse (ISBN 978-1-84866-036-6)
• ‘Into that Silent Sea’ – Francis French & Colin Burgess (ISBN 0-8032-1146-5)
• 'Yuri Gagarin - The First Spaceman' - Vix Southgate (ISBN 978-1-90158-751-7)