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Rosemary Haworth-Booth on how she started acquiring works in the late 1980s, when other galleries failed to take an interestGavin Jantjes is right to say that many British art institutions deployed kneejerk/stopgap responses in retrospective collecting (UK galleries rushed to diversify art after Black Lives Matter, artist says, 4 June). However, many provincial galleries like Bradford, Rochdale, Coventry and Birmingham were ahead of the game in either collecting or exhibiting. It was indeed the