So much, from such a small island...
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| Virginia Woolf, by her sister |
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| James Joyce; well, sort of British; sort of... |
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Statesmen of World War I, Sir James Guthrie, 1930;
Churchill's prominence in the painting certainly overstates
his role in the war |
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| Bertrand Russell; noted philosopher, pacifist, atheist |
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| T. E. Lawrence; of Arabia |
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| D. H. Lawrence; not of Arabia |
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| Composer William Walton |
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| Rebecca West |
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| Agathe Christie and daughter |
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| Chaplin |
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Neville Chamberlin: "Peace in our time"
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| Churchill, sans cigar |
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| Henry Moore, in the Blitz |
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Douglas Bader, double-amputee Spitfire ace,
squadron leader, POW |
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| Montgomery |
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| Roald Dahl |
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| Isherwood and Auden |
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| H. G. Wells |
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| Alan Turing |
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| Keynes and Lydia Lopokova |
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| Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier |
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Wallace Simpson...OK, not British, but hugely important
in British history |
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| Composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams |
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| Stephen Hawking |
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| Royal conversation |
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| Diana |
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| Downhill from here... |
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