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Is this the proletariat?
ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson
DEMONIC ENERGY: (L to R) Regimental Bath, 1985; Trinity, 2020
[(L to R) Antonia Reeve - Flowers Gallery] 
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