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- ↑ "Trailblazing black Metropolitan Police officer Robert Branford remembered, 200 years on". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
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- ↑ "Historian hopes the story of a mixed-race policeman in Victorian Southwark will inspire new generation of black officers". Southwark News. Retrieved 2022-05-30.