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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Camden Town Group
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Group of artists, formed and named by *Sickert in 1911. Their purpose was to exhibit together. Camden Town is an area of north London, then largely working-class, in which Sickert had painted many of his pictures of nudes in drab boarding-house rooms. In the Group's first show he included two such paintings, calling them Camden Town Murder Series No. 1 and No. 2, though the link with some recent murders can only have been suggested for the sake of publicity.
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Other members included Robert Bevan, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Spencer Gore, Augustus *John and Wyndham Lewis. They had no strong identity in terms of style, though the majority shared Sickert's preference for everyday subjects. The exhibitions organized by Roger *Fry at this time introduced a strong influence from France. In 1913 they merged with others to form the larger and stylistically even more disparate London Group.
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