Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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April 1880: The last issue of the New Quarterly Magazine...
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April 1880
The last issue of the New Quarterly Magazine was published.
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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Catharine Macaulay
CM
is best known as a radical historian (the only historian of England from a republican point of view for almost two centuries after she wrote). The eight volumes of her History of England took...
1 January 1948: Railways in Britain were nationalised: the...
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1 January 1948
Railways in Britain were nationalised: the Big Four railways were merged as national property under the Transport Act, as British Rail
.
Day, John R. The Story of London’s Underground. London Transport, 1974.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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“Railways Act 1993”. Railways Archive, 2004–2014.
1867: Walter Bagehot's classic introduction to...
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1867
Walter Bagehot
's classic introduction to British politics, entitled The English Constitution, was published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1833: A temporary hospital was opened in Dublin...
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1833
A temporary hospital was opened in Dublin by the Irish Sisters of Charity
, with room for twelve patients.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
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18 March 1967: A Liberian-registered oil supertanker, the...
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18 March 1967
A Liberian-registered oil supertanker, the Torrey Canyon, with a cargo of 100,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground on rocks off Land's End and began releasing what was at this date the biggest oil spill...
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E. J. Scovell
EJS
is a poet whose work spans a long period. Writing during the 1930s, she published from the forties through to the nineties, always against the grain or fashion of the time. She has also...
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Jane Williams
JW
's eight books and several periodical publications appeared from the pre-Victorian to the mid-Victorian period in a number of genres, including poetry, literary criticism (of women writers in particular), and an account of her...
24 September 1939: Petrol rationing began in Britain as a result...
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24 September 1939
Petrol rationing began in Britain as a result of the outbreak of war.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
385
1967: This year the number of US troops in Vietnam...
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1967
This year the number of US troops in Vietnam rose to 500,000 (up from 23,000 in early 1965).
Kettle, Martin. “Nixon ’wrecked early peace in Vietnam’”. The Guardian, 9 Aug. 2000, p. 3.
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1575: The very early comedy Gammer Gurtons Nedle,...
Still, John et al. Gammar Gurtons Nedle. Editor Brett-Smith, H. F. B., Basil Blackwell, 1939.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...
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1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
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appeared.
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
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1790: Newspaper sales in England totalled more...
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1790
Newspaper sales in England totalled more than 16 million.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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1 January 1886: The first recorded death from chloroform...
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1 January 1886
The first recorded death from chloroform poisoning, that of Edwin Bartlett
, led to his wife Adelaide Bartlett
's sensational trial for murder.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
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March 1961: Jane Duncan's autobiographical book My Friend...
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March 1961
Jane Duncan
's autobiographical book My Friend Annie, treating her often rocky relationship with her stepmother, was published.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.
December 1837-April 1839: George Grey made two journeys to explore...
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December 1837-April 1839
George Grey
made two journeys to explore the coastal areas north of Perth, Western Australia.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
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December 1915: The Irish Republican Brotherhood established...