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8 March 1982: The tabloid-format Outwrite, published by...

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8 March 1982

The tabloid-format Outwrite, published by the Feminist Newspaper Group , began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Florence Marryat

FM , who published about eighty books during the later nineteenth century, was primarily a novelist (known for fiction that plays about the borders of the supernatural, in spiritualist and vampire novels) and also a...
Florence Marryat Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Florence Marryat. She is wearing a dark velvet dress with a square lace collar. Her hair is worn in a bun; earrings dangle from her ears, and a necklace is tied tightly around her neck with a black ribbon. She holds a fan against her chest. Her name appears below in capitals in the form "Miss Florence Marryatt".

1978: In this year were produced both Elisabeth...

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1978

In this year were produced both Elisabeth Bond 's first play, The Great War Show, and her dramatic representation of a moment in the suffrage struggle, Chalking the Flags, performed by Theatre Mobile .
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.

Autumn 1867: The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...

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Autumn 1867

The London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , and others.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Hyperion Press, 1976.
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Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987.
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Smith, Janet. “Helen Taylor’s Anti-imperial Feminism: Ireland and the Land League question”. Women’s History, Vol.
2
, No. 4, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, pp. 19-24.
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1765: Isaac Teale, in The Sable Venus: An Ode,...

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1765

Isaac Teale , in The Sable Venus: An Ode, unselfconsciously combined facts about the slave trade with a mythologised triumph of black Venus, arriving in Jamaica from Africa to the plaudits of colonists.
Bhattacharya, Nandini. “Family Jewels: George Colmans Inkle and Yarico and Connoisseurship”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 207-26.
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10 December 1983: Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel...

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10 December 1983

Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements, a scientific advancement that was pivotal to later research in DNA.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Whitfield, John. “Get the Mosquitoes!”. London Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2006, pp. 33-4.
33-4
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

23 April 1661: Charles II was crowned in Westminster Abbey,...

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23 April 1661

Charles II was crowned in Westminster Abbey, nearly a year after his restoration. Popular rejoicing followed.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
419-22

13 December 1776: Special services were held in all churches...

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13 December 1776

Special services were held in all churches in England, at which prayers were offered for victory over the American rebels.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
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15 August 1914: The Panama Canal was officially opened....

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15 August 1914

The Panama Canal was officially opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
184

17 June 1790: Titles of nobility were abolished in Fra...

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17 June 1790

Titles of nobility were abolished in France.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
140

Julia Strachey

JS published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge writes in her introduction to JS 's memoir that when she died, after a long...

May 1973: Two members of Edward Heath's conservative...

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May 1973

Two members of Edward Heath 's conservative government resigned over a scandal involving call-girls; one of them was the Lord Privy Seal.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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Camilla Crosland

Though most prolific as a poet, CC also published short stories, novels, music lyrics, translations, essays, and memoirs in a career that spanned the last sixty years of the nineteenth century. Her work was frequently...

1878: Two years after the first microphone (a telephone...

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1878

Two years after the first microphone (a telephone transmitter made for Alexander Graham Bell ), David Edward Hughes invented the carbon microphone, forerunner of those which revolutionised sound recording around 1925.
Bellis, Mary. “The History of Microphones”. About.com: Inventors.

1 June 1809: Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing...

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1 June 1809

Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing his periodical The Friend. It ran till 15 March 1810 before being rewritten and issued as a book in 1818.
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.

2 November 1936: The BBC began the world's first regular public...

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2 November 1936

The BBC began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
381

About June 1891: George Gissing published New Grub Street,...

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About June 1891

George Gissing published New Grub Street, a novel portraying the development of writing into a trade and authors into tradesmen.
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.

1828: The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation...

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1828

The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation for the commitment of the insane and for the employment structure of asylums.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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3 March 1943: 173 people suffocated in an air-raid shelter...

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3 March 1943

173 people suffocated in an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green in London, after one person fell and others in turn fell over them.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. “Nuthouse Al”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, p. 12.
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4 October 1830: Following riots in Brussels inspired by news...

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4 October 1830

Following riots in Brussels inspired by news of the July Revolution in France, Belgium proclaimed independence from Holland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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1933: A year after her move to Hollywood, Mae West...

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1933

A year after her move to Hollywood, Mae West starred in She Done Him Wrong, and spoke one of her catch-phrase lines, Come up and see me sometime.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1878: Byron A. Brooks of the US patented the shift-key...

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1878

Byron A. Brooks of the US patented the shift-key typewriter, which introduced lower-case letters.
Adler, Michael H. The Writing Machine. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
187-8

March 1849: The Select Committee on Public Libraries...

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March 1849

The Select Committee on Public Libraries was appointed; William Ewart , chair, worked closely with Edward Edwards to write the report that became the basis for the Public Libraries Bill of February 1850.
Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
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Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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1875: The Savings Bank Department, a division of...

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1875

The Savings Bank Department , a division of the Post Office , was the second government division to hire women clerks; approximately thirty women were hired that year.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166

1975: Headland published another volume of Anna...

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1975

Headland published another volume of Anna Adams 's poetry, Parabola.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.