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If ‘wokeness’ is over, can someone tell the Fitzwilliam Museum?

Its new exhibition Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition is activist agit-prop – which is a pity because there are many interesting things in it

Robert Tombs Robert Tombs
‘Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House’, c.1776, by David Martin EARL OF MANSFIELD, SCONE PALACE, PERTH
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    Fitzwilliam Museum, until 1 June

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