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7 June 1837: The London Working Men's Association issued...

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7 June 1837

The London Working Men's Association issued a Six Point petition in conjunction with six Radical MPs.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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7 March 203: In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus,...

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7 March 203

In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus , Perpetua , author of the earliest surviving text in Latin by a woman, was martyred at Carthage in North Africa.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Claire Luckham

Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...

13 September 1819: Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester...

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13 September 1819

Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester which became the Peterloo Massacre) was welcomed by huge crowds on his arrival in London to stand trial.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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1870: Mary Florence Potts, an American housewife,...

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1870

Mary Florence Potts , an American housewife, patented the double-ended flat iron with a detachable handle.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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1921: Norman Douglas published Alone, which the...

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1921

Norman Douglas published Alone, which the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls the mellowest, most relaxed of his travel writings, the author's favourite and the last about Italy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Rosamond Lehmann

RL has received less critical attention than other women modernists, especially her closest literary colleagues Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf . However, after the reprinting of her work in the 1980s, her seven novels, her...
Rosamond Lehmann Black-and-white photo of Rosamond Lehmann. She is wearing a silk scarf, and her white hair is cut short. Behind her is a painting of a woman.

1824: James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd published...

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1824

James Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd published what is probably his best-known work, the novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a thriller which may be regarded as psychological, theological, or supernatural.
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.

18 October 1851: Herman Melville published Moby Dick in England...

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18 October 1851

Herman Melville published Moby Dick in England under the title The Whale.
Higgins, Brian, and Hershel Parker, editors. Critical Essays on Herman Melvilles Moby Dick G. K. Hall, 1992.
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The Life and Works of Herman Melville. http://www.melville.org/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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February 1993: Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson...

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February 1993

Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson and Jon Venables , were convicted of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Earlier 1937: Ruth Pitter was awarded the Hawthornden Prize...

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Earlier 1937

Ruth Pitter was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for her poetry; the presentation was made by Vita Sackville-West .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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20 November 1910: A revolt in Mexico against thirty years of...

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20 November 1910

A revolt in Mexico against thirty years of dictatorship failed, but set the scene for a long-running revolution which eventually produced a constitutional republic.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1893: The National Reformer, the official journal...

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1893

The National Reformer, the official journal of the National Secular Society since 1866, ceased publication.
Royle, Edward. Radical Politics, 1790-1900: Religion and Unbelief. Longman, 1971.
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25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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9 September 1938: The ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service, later...

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9 September 1938

The ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service, later the Women's Royal Army Corps ) was formed by direct order of the king, George VI .
“A Brief History of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Women’s Royal Army Corps”. WRAC Association.

1869: The Governess Association of Ireland was...

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1869

The Governess Association of Ireland was founded by Anne Jellicoe .
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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1677: Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre (or Phèdre et...

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1677

Jean Racine 's tragedy Phèdre (or Phèdre et Hippolyte) was both produced and published; its protagonist, wife of Theseus, falls in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, and when he refuses to respond she arranges...

1848: American George Washington Bethune published...

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1848

American George Washington Bethune published his anthology The British Female Poets.
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.
Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.

25 October 1917: The Russian royal family's Winter Palace...

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25 October 1917

The Russian royal family's Winter Palace at St Petersburg was stormed by an angry mob: a defining event in the October Revolution.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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1836: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin published...

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1836

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin published Contrasts, or, a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the present day, shewing the present decay of taste.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1913: A Belfast branch of the Women's Social and...

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1913

A Belfast branch of the Women's Social and Political Union was formed, with Dorothy Evans as Ulster Organizer.
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
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, 1982, pp. 21-36.
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Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew is best known and regarded as an early twentieth century poet, though she also published a few short stories and essays. Her poems, often dramatic monologues, are haunted by unrequited love, the renunciation...

February 1774: In the preface (dated February 1774) to the...

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February 1774

In the preface (dated February 1774) to the first volume of his Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, Joseph Priestley wrote that the rapid progress of scientific knowledge would I doubt not...

1904: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's final play, Vishnevyi...

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1904

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 's final play, Vishnevyi Sad (The Cherry Orchard), both appeared in print in a journal and was produced at the Moscow Art Theatre .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Nina Hamnett

NH , active during the earlier part of the twentieth century, was primarily a visual artist, but also published two books of memoirs (apparently based on diaries kept at the time) as well as a...
Nina Hamnett Painting of Nina Hamnett by Roger Fry, 1917. She is seated in a wooden chair with a yellow back and pink seat, wearing a long grey-green skirt and a black turtleneck whose sleeves leave her slender forearms bare. Her dark hair is short, with a fringe. Courtauld Institute.