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1851: The Royal College of Surgeons set up the...

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1851

The Royal College of Surgeons set up the first male midwifery course in London and excluded female midwives.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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After 18 March 1954: English-educated, American historical or...

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After 18 March 1954

English-educated, American historical or biographical novelist Anya Seton issued her best-known work, Katherine, about the commoner from whom descends every English monarch since Henry VII .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1986: An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act...

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1986

An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act equalized the retirement age (though not the age for receipt of the state pension) between the sexes, and allowed women to work night shifts.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Ketaki Kushari Dyson

KKD (poet, novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, and critic of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) grew up and was educated in Calcutta, but has lived in or near Oxford for most of her adult life...

31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...

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31 March 1832

William Tait published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Eva Figes

EF , a seriously experimental novelist, also published short stories, children's books, literary criticism, social commentary, and translations, especially of French and German fiction.

1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...

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1 January 1913

Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
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Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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Louise Page

LP is a contemporary feminist playwright who has also made her mark in radio and television drama. Her first play to attract notice, Tissue, tackled the subject of breast cancer, and she has often...

July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...

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July 2003

Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen 's brother Edward Austen Knight , opened its doors as Chawton House Library , a research centre in women's writing.
“House and Estate. History”. Chawton House Library.

June 1792: The Scottish Society of the Friends of the...

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June 1792

The Scottish Society of the Friends of the People , a radical group, was established in Edinburgh, a month or so after the English equivalent.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
156, 160
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Henrietta Rouviere Mosse

HRM published about ten novels and a volume of short fiction with the Minerva Press and its successor during the early nineteenth century; writing at first for pleasure, then out of increasingly desperate financial need...

25 June 1886: The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved...

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25 June 1886

The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved rights to Scottish tenants in the wake of years of civil disobedience (the Crofters' War), particularly on the Isle of Skye.
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
under Highland Clearances

Circa 1973: Mosside Press (also called Moss Side), which...

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Circa 1973

Mosside Press (also called Moss Side), which had been founded in Manchester in the late 1960s by the Student Christian Movement , became a woman-run press after all the men left.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
58, 64-5

2 August 1270: Louis IX of France (also called St Louis)...

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2 August 1270

Louis IX of France (also called St Louis) died at Carthage on the final crusade (the second of his reign).
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1786: A committee was formed to provide relief...

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1786

A committee was formed to provide relief for London's black poor: 400 were helped in the first few months.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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By 14 October 1971: Mary Whitehouse, general secretary of the...

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By 14 October 1971

Mary Whitehouse , general secretary of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association , published Who Does She Think She Is?
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(4 March 1971): 4
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(30 June 1971): 2

March 1890: William II of Germany dismissed Bismarck...

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March 1890

William II of Germany dismissed Bismarck from the position of Chancellor.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1784: Parliament increased by threepence the tax...

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1784

Parliament increased by threepence the tax (dating from the 1690s) which was levied on marriage.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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February 1916: Woman's Opinion ended weekly publication...

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February 1916

Woman's Opinion ended weekly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1802: George Bodley, a British iron founder, patented...

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1802

George Bodley , a British iron founder, patented a cast-iron even-heating range with a closed top, powered by coal and with a modern flue.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Perennial Library, 1987.
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7 October 1950: China invaded Tibet....

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7 October 1950

China invaded Tibet.
Macfarlane, Robert. “The Nominated Boy”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 30-2.
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1840: Protest erupted across Germany when France...

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1840

Protest erupted across Germany when France demanded a border along the Rhine.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
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12 April 1704: The French preacher, critic, and stylist...

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12 April 1704

The French preacher, critic, and stylist Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet died in Paris.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

30 January 1855: Public outrage against Lord Raglan, who commanded...

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30 January 1855

Public outrage against Lord Raglan , who commanded Britain's forces in the Crimean War, culminated in a Parliament ary inquiry that brought down Lord Aberdeen 's government and enabled various reforms.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Somerset, FitzRoy James Henry

18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...