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1893: 2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative...

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1893

2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative Guild 's (WCG) national petition for women's suffrage.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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By 25 September 1903: G. E. Moore published Principia Ethica....

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By 25 September 1903

G. E. Moore published Principia Ethica.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
89 (25 September 1903): 275

29 October 1889: The British South Africa Company under Cecil...

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29 October 1889

The British South Africa Company under Cecil Rhodes was chartered; the following year Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
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. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace, 1921.
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March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...

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March 1949

Elizabeth Bowen 's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC 's Third Programme series A Year I Remember.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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1898: Frank Karslake founded the Guild of Women...

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1898

Frank Karslake founded the Guild of Women Binders , which operated as a loosely-knit federation of women bookbinders from various craft groups. It ran until 1904.
Gertz, Stephen J. “The Guild of Women Binders: Bound to be Great”. Booktryst, A Nest for Book Lovers, 25 Oct. 2011.

From September 1940: Bombing of London and other British cities...

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From September 1940

Bombing of London and other British cities produced a second or trickle flow of evacuees to the countryside, which lasted over a year and displaced another one-and-half million people.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...

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3 May 1606

An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
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December 1729: Lady Abergavenny died in childbirth, having...

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December 1729

Lady Abergavenny died in childbirth, having been literally turned out while heavily pregnant by her husband, on grounds of her adultery.
Stone, Lawrence. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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10 December 1954: Britain's Max Born, with Walter Bothe of...

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10 December 1954

Britain's Max Born , with Walter Bothe of Germany, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for research in quantum mechanics; American Linus Pauling was awarded the prize in Chemistry, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Lydia Becker

LB first established herself in the mid nineteenth century as a popularizer of scientific knowledge and a proponent of women's scientific education. She is best known for her work on the Women's Suffrage Journal...
Lydia Becker Painting of Lydia Becker by Elizabeth Sarah Guinness. Becker is wearing a black dress with white lace collar and a bunch of red flowers. She has a pendant hanging on a black strip, and wire-framed glasses. Her hair is parted in the middle and scraped back in a bun. Girton College, Cambridge.

6 February 1778: Representatives of France and the United...

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6 February 1778

Representatives of France and the United States signed treaties of alliance and of amity and commerce.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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8 December 1868: The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo...

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8 December 1868

The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo first appeared, under the editorship of Arthur Arnold , providing both news and opinion.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. English Newspapers. Russell and Russell, 1966, 2 vols.
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27 May 1878: The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so...

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27 May 1878

The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so that magistrates could order a marital separation and the payment of an allowance to abused wives in cases of spousal assault.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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18 November 1941: Britain's Eighth Army launched the Crusader...

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18 November 1941

Britain's Eighth Army launched the Crusader campaign to relieve the garrison at Tobruk in Libya.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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1951: The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade,...

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1951

The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade , was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 November 1938: On the day after the attacks on Jews and...

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10 November 1938

On the day after the attacks on Jews and their property later known as Kristallnacht, Jews in NaziGermany were forbidden from attending the cinema.
Trumpener, Katie. “Drowning out the Newsreel”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 12 Mar. 2009, pp. 23-4.
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1909: The first scientific report of an Intra Uterine...

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1909

The first scientific report of an Intra Uterine Device (I.U.D.) was made in Britain.
Kovacs, Gabor T. “Intra-Uterine Contraception”. The Control of Human Fertility, edited by John F. Porter, 2nd ed., Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986, pp. 92-102.
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Wood, Clive. Sex and Fertility. Thames and Hudson, 1969.
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December 1955: Black activist Claudia Jones, threatened...

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December 1955

Black activist Claudia Jones , threatened with deportation from the USA to her native Trinidad for violating anti-Communist laws, arrived in London, where she spent her nine remaining years.
Weigand, Kate. “A Radical Activist, Rediscovered”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2009, pp. 13-14.
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27 June 1964: The last issue of The Sphere; an illustrated...

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27 June 1964

The last issue of The Sphere; an illustrated newspaper for the home was published.
North, John S., editor. The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/defaultLoggedIn.asp.

21 December 1772: The Narrative appeared of the life of James...

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21 December 1772

The Narrative appeared of the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw , who died this year; he described himself on the title-page as an African Prince.
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30 July 1935: Penguin Books issued its first ten titles:...

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30 July 1935

Penguin Books issued its first ten titles: sixpenny paperbacks with a characteristic penguin logo.
Penguin UK: About Us: Company History. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/history.html.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 395
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1937: Margot Ruddock published The Lemon Tree,...

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1937

Margot Ruddock published The Lemon Tree, a collection of her poetry edited by W. B. Yeats .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1850: Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory...

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1850

Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy; An Autobiography was published under the name Frank Forrest . It was later credited to the true author, James Myles .
Simmons, James R., editor. Factory Lives. Broadview Press, 2007.
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23 March 2019: More than a million people gathered in London...

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23 March 2019

More than a million people gathered in London from all over Britain and beyond for a demonstration called the Put it to the People March, demanding a second referendum on Brexit: on how and even...

April 1975: Pol Pot was installed by his Communist guerilla...

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April 1975

Pol Pot was installed by his Communist guerilla Khmer Rouge forces as totalitarian ruler of Cambodia (which had already suffered severe bombing by the USA in 1969 and invasion by Vietnam in 1970).
“Cambodia: History”. Lonely Planet World Guide.
Kurlantzick, Joshua. “In Pol Pot Time”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 6 Aug. 2009, pp. 9-11.
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