Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1753: Parliament brought in a bill for implementing...
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1753
Parliament
brought in a bill for implementing the first national census: it was rejected by the House of Lords
as an infringement on personal liberty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1932: Plymouth in Devon founded the first city-sponsored,...
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1932
Plymouth in Devon founded the first city-sponsored, permanent birth control clinic in Britain, with encouragement from the National Birth Control Association
.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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August 1916: Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting...
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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Elaine Feinstein
By early 2001 EF
had published fifteen novels and thirteen poetry collections, besides translation, biography, and drama, most of it for radio or television. She has given different answers to the question whether her poetry...
2 March 1867: President Andrew Johnson approved an Act...
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2 March 1867
President Andrew Johnson
approved an Act of the US Congress
chartering Howard University
in Washington, DC, as an institution for African-Americans in the liberal arts and sciences.
“Brief History of Howard Univesity”. Howard University.
7 March 1785: A paper by James Hutton was read to the Royal...
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7 March 1785
A paper by James Hutton
was read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
, which first propounded his theory, based on the study of rocks and fossils, that the earth was millions of years old...
23 March 1899: The first paper presented to the Institution...
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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1713: Theft by a servant from an employer became...
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1713
Theft by a servant from an employer became a capital offence in Britain.
Beattie, John M. “’Hard-pressed to make ends meet’: Women and Crime in Augustan London”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 103-15.
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25 July 1943: The Italian Fascist Grand Council imprisoned...
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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1851: French medical researcher Charles-Edouard...
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1851
French medical researcher Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
experimented with the effects of blood transfusion on the responsiveness of nerves in human corpses.
Flint, Kate. “Blood, Bodies, and The Lifted VeilNineteenth-Century Literature, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1997, pp. 455-73.
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22 July 1946: The World Health Organization came into ...
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.
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Margaret Holford, the younger
The first published work of Margaret Holford (whose mother was a writer bearing the same name) was an extended oriental tale in prose, which has often been ascribed to the mother instead of the daughter...
18 September 1850: The Fugitive Slave Act (or Runaway Slave...
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18 September 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act (or Runaway Slave Act) was passed by American president Millard Fillmore
, giving slaveowners wide power to abduct people of colour in both slave and non-slave states.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. 20th Anniversary Edition, HarperCollins, 1999.
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Evans, Richard J. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth Century History. Editors Belchem, John and Richard Price, Penguin, 1996.
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Shortly before 15 January 1753: A woman tried at the Old Bailey for prostitution...
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Shortly before 15 January 1753
A woman tried at the Old Bailey
for prostitution and theft (stealing a client's watch) testified that she was not a regular whore, and only took the watch when the man went back on his...
1975: Peter Singer published Animal Liberation,...
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1975
Peter Singer
published Animal Liberation, a foundational text for the animal rights movement.
By March 1774: Warren Hastings became the first English...
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By March 1774
Warren Hastings
became the first English Governor-General of India.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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1725: As an index of the decline of brewing as...
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1725
As an index of the decline of brewing as women's work, historian Deborah Simonton
notes that Edinburgh had only seven female brewers this year, compared to 230 in the sixteenth century.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
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By 20 November 1886: Walter Besant published Children of Gibe...
April 1848: In France, universal manhood suffrage enabled...
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April 1848
In France, universal manhood suffrage enabled a politically inexperienced peasantry to elect a minority of monarchists, but sent a large majority of conservatives to Paris.
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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January 1860: Cavour was again made Prime Minister of Piedmont...
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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30 March 1919: Mohandas Gandhi proclaimed a hartal (work...
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30 March 1919
Mohandas Gandhi
proclaimed a hartal (work stoppage) as part of satyagraha (passive resistance) against the Rowlatt Acts, which gave the Indian Government sweeping Emergency Powers, aimed especially against sedition.
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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6 June 1841: Marian Rebecca Hughes became the first woman...
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6 June 1841
Marian Rebecca Hughes
became the first woman to take the vow of holy celibacy in the Church of England since the Reformation.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.