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- ↑ "Introducing QCEA's New Representatives". Around Europe No. 245. QCEA. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
Liz Scurfield: [..] In 1993 I began attending Quaker Meeting in London and became a member of Hampstead MM in 1995. [..] I co-founded the Chinese Department at the University of Westminster and am now the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages there.
