Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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16 April 2015: A report on diversity in British book publishing,...
April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...
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April 1637
Alexander Henderson
of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk
, held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...
1 July 1890: The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System...
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1 July 1890
The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System began processing data for the American census. This first mechanized census took five years less processing time than the census of 1880.
1992: Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and...
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1992
Francis Fukuyama
in The End of History and the Last Man argued that the process of national and international change and struggle called history had ended with the acceptance of technology, capitalism, and Western liberal...
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John Milton
1 May 1776: The secret society of the Illuminati was...
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1 May 1776
The secret society of the Illuminati
was founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
1838: US poet Frances Osgood published A Wreath...
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1838
US poet Frances Osgood
published A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England.
1842-43: Eugène Sue published Les mystères de Par...
20 August 1968: An uprising in Prague (sometimes later referred...
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20 August 1968
An uprising in Prague (sometimes later referred to as the Prague Spring) was suppressed by the military power of the USSR, whose tanks crossed the border on this day.
1886: The Conference of Typographical Societies...
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1886
The Conference of Typographical Societies moved to recommend women's admission to typographical unions provided that they were paid equal wages.
8 January 1689: Robert Gould licensed his Poems, Chiefly...
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8 January 1689
Robert Gould
licensed his Poems, Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles: it included The Poetess, aimed primarily at Aphra Behn
.
10 December 1928: Sigrid Undset's powerful and evocative novelistic...
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10 December 1928
Sigrid Undset
's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel
Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson
won the prize in Physics.)
1885: Breaking with established department store...
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1885
Breaking with established department store practice, Harrods
began to offer credit to select customers.
13 June 1944: Germany launched V1 or V-1 rockets against...
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13 June 1944
Germany launched V1 or V-1 rockets against England; six people were killed at Bethnal Green. Unlike conventional bombers, rockets attacked by day as well as by night.
5 May 1981: Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional...
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5 May 1981
Bobby Sands
, a member of the Provisional IRA
, died in the Maze Prison
near Belfast, where for two months he had been leading his final hunger strike.
“1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison”. BBC On this day.
13 March 1848: A revolution took place in Vienna, where...
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13 March 1848
A revolution took place in Vienna, where protesters—both students and urban working-class people—successfully urged the Emperor Ferdinand
to dismiss Clemens Von Metternich
.
January 1975: The first home computer appeared on the market...
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January 1975
The first home computer appeared on the market in the USA: the MITS Altair 8800, selling at $395 in the form of a kit for home assembly.
1837: Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia...
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1837
Black musician Frank Johnson
and his Philadelphia band were the first American band to tour Britain.