Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1963: Jackie, published by D. C. Thomson in Dundee,...
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1963
Jackie, published by D. C. Thomson
in Dundee, Scotland, began.
1651: Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises...
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1651
Jeremy Taylor
published The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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Eliza Ogilvy
EO
is mainly recognized as a poet who wrote sometimes innovative lyrics on a wide range of topics from experiences of motherhood to contemporary politics. Beginning in the 1840s, she published five volumes of poetry...
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
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1909: Mrs and Miss Earle of England established...
Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
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1820: Benjamin Disraeli's first publication, A...
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1820
Benjamin Disraeli
's first publication, A True Story, appeared in The Indicator.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
276
1609: The Douai or Douai-Rheims Bible appeared:...
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1609
The Douai or Douai-RheimsBible appeared: this was the version used by English-speaking Roman Catholics until the twentieth century.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
21 February 1774: The House of Lords decision Donaldson vs....
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21 February 1774
The House of Lords
decision Donaldson vs. Becket put an end to the legality (based in common law) of perpetual copyright. The case was provoked by the pirating activities of Alexander Donaldson
.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
19
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82.
171-82
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
499
1858: The Foreland lighthouse in Kent was the first...
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1858
The Foreland lighthouse in Kent was the first to be equipped with electrically powered arc lights.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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1775: The London Review of English and Foreign...
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1775
The London Review of English and Foreign Literature began publication.
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.
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Wendy Cope
WC
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look...
1955: Using the technique of x-ray crystallography,...
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1955
Using the technique of x-ray crystallography, Dorothy Hodgkin
discovered the molecular structure of Vitamin B12, enabling the treatment of pernicious anaemia.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
410
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
16 August 1960: The island of Cyprus became independent from...
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16 August 1960
The island of Cyprus became independent from Britain.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
2 May 1968: French students in Paris and elsewhere began...
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2 May 1968
French students in Paris and elsewhere began street protests against de Gaulle
's policies; these continued until 12 June and were violently put down by the police.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
428
Wallerstein, Immanuel. “The Albatross of Racism”. London Review of Books, 18 May 2000, pp. 11-14.
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By 1812: The British Navy comprised more than 140,000...
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By 1812
The British Navy comprised more than 140,000 men: nine times as many as before 1789.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
287
1891: The weekly women's magazine Forget-Me-Not...
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1891
The weekly women's magazine Forget-Me-Not began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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1898: The King Alfred School, Hampstead, opened...
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1898
The King Alfred School, Hampstead, opened in Hampstead, North London; as a co-educational private day school, it was something of a rarity.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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The King Alfred School. http://www.kingalfred.org.uk/index.html.
8 March 1971: International Women's Day was marked by the...
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8 March 1971
International Women's Day was marked by the largest demonstration of women in London since the days of the suffrage struggle.
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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Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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By late 1931: Twelve certain members of the Detection Club...
May 1876: Russia, Austria and Germany presented the...
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May 1876
Russia, Austria and Germany presented the Berlin Memorandum to the Sultan of Turkey
, demanding that he inaugurate reforms in the extensive Ottoman Empire.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
344
10 July-17 August 1943: Allied troops captured Sicily in a series...
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10 July-17 August 1943
Allied troops captured Sicily in a series of hard-fought battles.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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1906: Dorothy Levitt of England set the women's...
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1906
Dorothy Levitt
of England set the women's world record of 91 miles per hour in a motor car.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
