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Cover image: A modern school contrasted with an old school.
Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942. Issued by A.B.C.A. (Army Bureau of Current Affairs), [1942] (London, E.C.4 : Multi Machine Plates Ltd.). Wellcome Collection. 20281i.
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