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''In' Group'

by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, July 1967
12 in. x 14 3/8 in. (305 mm x 365 mm)
Given by Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 2003 in conjunction with the exhibition 'Lichfield: the early years 1962-1982'
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NPG x128493

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Harold Wilson decides to devalue the pound by nearly 15% in order to ' break out from the straitjacket' of boom and bust economics. The decision was controversial and prompted Wilson to reassure the public that the 'pound in your pocket' would not be worth any less.

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The Beatles release Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a record sleeve designed by pop artist, Peter Blake. The band's musical experimentation and colourful new look was an example of psychedelic, and the LP is often regarded as one of the first concept albums.

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Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia. The guerrilla leader and revolutionary icon was hunted down by the CIA and captured and shot by Bolivian Special Forces. He had been leading Bolivian insurgents in an attempt to overthrow the government.

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Martin Farr

22 June 2020, 15:50

A group of public figures supporting Britain's going 'In' to the EEC/Common Market, occasioned by the government's May 1967 application to join. It was the second application, albeit by different governments; it would be a third government, in which Maudling would be Home Secretary, that would succeed, six years later.

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10 June 2016, 11:07

None of the sitters have been identified:
They are (those with occupation and dates are those not represented in the online catalogue)
Standing: left to right: Anne Veronica (née Coke), Baroness Glenconner; Graham Hill; Sir Charles Clore; Mario Cassandro, restaurateur, 1920-2011; Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath; Cecil Beaton; Eduardo Paolozzi; William Hill, bookmaker, 1903-1971, ; David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry; Anthony Burgess; Ronnie Corbett; John Mortimer; Osbert Lancaster
Seated: left to right: Robert Wright Stopford; Dame Joan Plowright; David Mlinaric; Sir Alfred Jules Ayer; Sir (Henry) Roy Forbes Harrod; Reginald Maudling; Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller

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