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The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist, and was one of the most advanced centres for modernist thinking, radical thought and experimental art in Britain in the pre-First World War period.[1]

  1. ^ Steele, Tom (2009). Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club 1893–1923. The Orage Press. p. 1.

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