Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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15 May 1858: The third Covent Garden Theatre of the century...
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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June 1643: The Long Parliament took a decisive step...
Writer or writing item
June 1643
The Long Parliament took a decisive step towards re-establishing government control over printing: a Licensing Order was enacted to take over the censorship function formerly exercised by the Court of the Star Chamber
and relinquished...
15 July 1916: King George V opened the National Library...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1857: William Acton's Prostitution advocated of...
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1857
William Acton
's Prostitution advocated of the control of prostitution through state regulation.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...
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1563
Convocation of the Church of England
drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274
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.
July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...
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July 1803
An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon
's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 460-1
7 July 1975: The first work by the Afro-American writer...
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7 July 1975
The first work by the Afro-American writer Ntozake Shange
opened off Broadway in New York: the choreopoem (or verse sequence for musical performance with dance) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When...
1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...
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1884
Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League
.
Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91.
166, 170-1
By the end of August 1588: The attempted invasion of England by Philip...
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By the end of August 1588
The attempted invasion of England by Philip II
's Spanish Armada was defeated.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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21 April 1509: King Henry VII died; the next day Henry VIII...
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
42-4, 49, 64
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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Author profile
Constance, Countess Markievicz
CCM
, a leader in Ireland's nationalist struggle for independence (and latterly for the unification of independent Ireland), is, and has always been, better known for her appearances in creative works by others than...
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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1874: St Mary's Hospital, London, chemically produced...
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1874
St Mary's Hospital
, London, chemically produced the drug heroin from morphine; it was later patented in the 1890s by the pharmaceutical company Bayer
.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
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Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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1623: During a terrible famine in Scotland, many...
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1623
During a terrible famine in Scotland, many poor people died in the streets in Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Drummond of Hawthornden
1919: Siegfried Sassoon published War Poems, and...
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1919
Siegfried Sassoon
published War Poems, and became literary editor of the Daily Herald.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
20 February 1946: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London,...