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Thomas Paine

Adrian Brunel profiles the influential revolutionary pamphleteer and political philosopher.

Adrian Brunel | Published in History Today Volume 2 Issue 3 March 1952

Thomas Paine, copy by Auguste Millière, after an engraving by William Sharp, after George Romney, circa 1876 (1792)

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