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27 December 1788: Louis XVI consented to public demands and...

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27 December 1788

Louis XVI consented to public demands and overuled the Parlement of Paris to double the size of the Third Estate.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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1913: British conductor Ethel Leginska conducted...

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1913

British conductor Ethel Leginska conducted the Boston Philharmonic , the Chicago Women's Symphony , and a women's symphony in Boston, Massachusetts.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...

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1856

Richard Owen , a rival of Darwin and Huxley , was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum .
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Late April 1908: Gladstone Adams, driving his car from Newcastle...

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Late April 1908

Gladstone Adams , driving his car from Newcastle to London for the FA cup final, found himself seriously inconvenienced on the road by falling snow, and came up with the idea for the windscreen wiper...

: For the first time a literary festival (brainchild...

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Summer 1988

For the first time a literary festival (brainchild of Norman and Peter Florence ) was held at Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh border, a small town (Y Gelli in Welsh) with few amenities but...

7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...

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7 December 1666

More than a hundred Covenanters were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.

11 July 1967: The Irish Censorship of Publications Act...

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11 July 1967

The Irish Censorship of Publications Act (1967) allowed books to be unbanned after twelve years, but only if they had been censored for reasons other than advocating contraception or abortion.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
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Sawyer, Roger. We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History. Routledge, 1993.
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1908: The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments...

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1908

The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments was established.
Thomas, Keith. “Hugh Dalton to the Rescue”. London Review of Books, 13 Nov. 1997, pp. 7-8.
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1973: The Women Writers' Group was founded in ...

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1973

The Women Writers' Group was founded in London.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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1859: The London Post Office Street Directory of...

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1859

The London Post Office Street Directory of this year listed two businesses designating themselves as Servants' Bazaars, stores catering exclusively to the servant classes.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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By January 1841: East London Female Patriotic Association...

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By January 1841

East London Female Patriotic Association (ELFPA) changed its name to the East London Female Total Abstinence Chartist Association .
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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1883: William Robinson lastingly affected the English...

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1883

William Robinson lastingly affected the English style of gardening when he published The English Flower Garden, which went through many editions.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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1767: Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free...

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1767

Man-midwife Sir John Leake assigned cost-free land in Lambeth, south of the Thames, on which to build to the New Westminster Lying-in Hospital , a charity institution.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

24 December 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto,...

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24 December 1764

Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, dedicated to Lady Mary Coke .
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
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June 1916: The General Service Scheme broadened Voluntary...

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June 1916

The General Service Scheme broadened Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) employment for women to include medical workers such as x-ray and laboratory attendants, as well as clerks, cooks, telephone operators, and store keepers.
Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War. Routledge, 1994.
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Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914. Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1988.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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20-21 May 1927: In the Spirit of St Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh...

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20-21 May 1927

In the Spirit of St Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, New York, to Le Bourget airfield at Paris.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Elizabeth Bury

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...
Elizabeth Bury Oval line print of Elizabeth Bury by J. Burden, 1777 (more that fifty years after her death). Her hair is fashionably styled on top of her head with a couple of locks hanging down. She is wearing a dress with white at neckline and cuffs and her name, " Mrs. Elizabeth Bury", is written below.

1892: Catherine Martin, under the pseudonym Mrs...

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1892

Catherine Martin , under the pseudonym Mrs Alick Macleod, published her novel The Silent Sea.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1758: At about the date of the founding of the...

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1758

At about the date of the founding of the Warrington Academy , the Dissenter William Eyres set up a family printing press at Warrington in Lancashire.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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: A conference held at Cairo installed the...

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Spring 1921

A conference held at Cairo installed the Hashemite Faisal I as king of Iraq, then a new entity under British Mandate conferred by the League of Nations .
Buchan, James. “Miss Bell’s fateful lines in the sand”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
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, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 20.
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Between 1355 and 1366: The first surviving road-map of Great Britain,...

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Between 1355 and 1366

The first surviving road-map of Great Britain, now known as the Gough Map after the antiquarian Richard Gough , was produced.
Millea, Nick. “Britain’s First Road Map”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2006, pp. 28-30.
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Heaney, Michael. “Bodleian Items Inscribed on UNESCO Register”. Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter, 2011, p. 3.
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1927: The Electricity Supply Board was established...

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1927

The Electricity Supply Board was established by statute in Ireland to generate, distribute, and sell electricity.
Electricity Council. Electricity Supply in Great Britain: A Chronology. Electricity Council, 1973.
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December 1824: The actress Maria Foote was awarded £3,000...

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December 1824

The actress Maria Foote was awarded £3,000 in damages in her suit against Joseph Hayne for breach of promise: an indication that a man's solemn undertaking to a woman, even of a lower rank and...

22 July 1878: The Metropolitan Management and Building...

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22 July 1878

The Metropolitan Management and Building Acts Amendment Act was passed, authorizing the new Metropolitan Board of Works to preside over the construction of places of entertainment within London.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1 April 2002: Britain's existing Arts Council and its ten...

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1 April 2002

Britain's existing Arts Council and its ten Regional Arts Boards were amalgamated to create a single coherent, cohesive, simplified funding body speaking strongly and as one for the arts.
McKeone, Gary. “Pared to the Core”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2002–28 Feb. 2003, pp. 174-5.
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