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- ↑ "Annie Rogers". St Anne's College, Oxford . Founding Fellows. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ↑ "Petrie Watson Exhibitions". Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield. 19 December 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
