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1967: William Tunnicliffe of the Canadian Government...

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1967

William Tunnicliffe of the Canadian Government Printing Office took a first step towards electronic encoding of text when he spoke on the separation of text content from format.
Goldfarb, Charles. The SGML Handbook. Editor Rubinsky, Yuri, Clarendon, 1990.
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1605: An Act of Parliament authorised the City...

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1605

An Act of Parliament authorised the City of London for the work and expenditure necessary to create a water supply for its citizens.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
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1905: Mary Matilda Winslow became the first Black...

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1905

Mary Matilda Winslow became the first Black woman to attend university in Canada and receive a degree: Honours in Classics from the University of New Brunswick .
“Education”. Saint John’s Black Heritage.

1862: The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody,...

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1862

The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody , with a £150,000 donation, to create affordable urban housing.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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Sarah Wentworth Morton

SWM , poet of the American Revolution, is remembered for the long, sentimental, narrative poems in which she considers the make-up of the new nation, inter-racial relationships (equal male friendship, unequal heterosexual love), the relationship...
Sarah Wentworth Morton Half-length painting of Sarah Wentworth Morton by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1802. She sits in a red chair looking at the viewer in half-profile, her dark hair and dress merging into the black background and only her face, décolletage, and forearms standing out dramatically, with a gold shawl at her elbows. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

1673: Molière's comedy Les Femmes savantes, first...

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1673

Molière 's comedy Les Femmes savantes, first staged the previous year, was published.
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Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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Pandita Ramabai

PR was a tireless advocate for the importance of education (both secular and religious) for women, and Indian self-reliance. Fifty-five years after her death, A. B. Shah called her the greatest woman produced by modern...
Pandita Ramabai Black and white photograph of Pandita Ramabai, shown from the shoulders up, looking earnestly to the left of the viewer, wearing a white hijab. "Ramabai" is signed below.

1822: Charles Fourier published Traite de l'association...

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1822

Charles Fourier published Traite de l'association domestique-agricole.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
364

24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...

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24 December 1922

The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg 's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC .
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
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8 August 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...

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8 August 1781

At the Haymarket Theatre , a transvestite Beggar's Opera (in which most of the male parts were played by women and the female parts by men) garnered such favourable audience response that its performance was...

28 February 1883: A protest meeting by British residents at...

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28 February 1883

A protest meeting by British residents at Calcutta was held against Ilbert 's Criminal Procedure Amendment bill.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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31 May 1856: The Law Amendment Society conducted an open...

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31 May 1856

The Law Amendment Society conducted an open meeting on the legal status of women.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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7-9 June 1898: The Third International Congress of Publishers...

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7-9 June 1898

The Third International Congress of Publishers was held in London.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....

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16 October 1793

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Hunt, Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution”. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective, edited by Peter, 1949 - Jones, Arnold, 1996, pp. 268-84.
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1870: Baby farmer Mrs Margaret Waters was hanged...

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1870

Baby farmerMrs Margaret Waters was hanged for the murder of one of the many children in her care.
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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May 1975: Cora Kaplan edited the first modern anthology...

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May 1975

Cora Kaplan edited the first modern anthology of women's poetry in Britain: Salt and Bitter and Good: three centuries of English and American women poets, published by Paddington Press .
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British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
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Georgiana Fullerton

Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction...
Georgiana Fullerton Photo of Georgiana Fullerton. She is wearing a dark, feathery bonnet tied with a large dark bow under her chin, and a dark shawl.

16 May 1791: James Boswell published The Life of Samuel...

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16 May 1791

James Boswell published The Life of Samuel Johnson, on the twenty-eighth anniversary of the day that he and Johnson first met.
Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann, 1984.
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October 1953: The influential literary and cultural magazine...

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October 1953

The influential literary and cultural magazine Encounter was launched in London; the editors were Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol .
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Jacobson, Dan. “The Price”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 22-8.
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Collini, Stefan. “Stainless Splendour”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 6-10.
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1851: Leigh Hunt published Table Talk....

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1851

Leigh Hunt published Table Talk.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
485

1641: In a year of a raging bull market for popish...

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1641

In a year of a raging bull market for popish plots
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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several women were among those who took an oath (required by Parliament of all citizens) to support the true religion.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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Mary Chandler

MC , writing in the earlier eighteenth century, became famous for a single poem, the A Description of Bath, whose chief interest is the way it functions as part of a local tourist economy...
Mary Chandler Colour photograph of a fountain in the Grand Pump Room in Bath, offering the curative Bath waters which provided Mary Chandler's livelihood and were the central subject of her poem.

June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...

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June 1787

A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
57 (1787): 721-2

21 February 1991: English ballerina Margot Fonteyn died at...

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21 February 1991

English ballerina Margot Fonteyn died at the age of seventy-one.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1925: The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs...

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1925

The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris, provided the name art deco for a new style associated with the modernist, post-war age.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.