Explore Orlando

Here, you’ll find randomized material from across the textbase’s author profiles and timelines. To jump to the content of your choice, click on its image card.

13 January 1976: Argentina suspended diplomatic ties with...

National or international item

13 January 1976

Argentina suspended diplomatic ties with Britain over the possession of the Falkland Islands.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
412

20 August 1853: The Public Libraries Act (1850) was extended...

Building and people item

20 August 1853

The Public Libraries Act (1850) was extended to include Scotland and Ireland.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
20
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

H. D.

HD, born American, who took British nationality after a marriage which lasted longer on paper than in practice, was a key figure in the international Imagist movement of the early twentieth century and in modernism...
H. D. Black-and-white photo of H.D. posing, looking off-camera and leaning against a wall with her hands in her pockets. Her hair is styled in a page-boy cut.

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

National or international item

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.
68
Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
31-3
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

26 February 1839: The first Grand National steeplechase was...

Building and people item

26 February 1839

The first Grand National steeplechase was run at Aintree in Lancashire, near Liverpool.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
264

Sara Jeanette Duncan

SJD was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne...
Sara Jeanette Duncan Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Sara Jeannette Duncan, wearing a light buttoned blouse with a white flower in her dark curly hair.

1874: Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective...

Building and people item

1874

Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective and Provident League to promote the organization of women workers in England.
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
33-41
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
142

1741: The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical...

Building and people item

1741

The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical Repository,
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
42
began annual publication in London.
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
42

1969: The National Health Service allowed birth...

Building and people item

1969

The National Health Service allowed birth control advice to be given to unmarried women.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
260

17 May 1880: Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman...

National or international item

17 May 1880

Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party .
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
609

6 February 1756: A national fast day was held in Britain,...

National or international item

6 February 1756

A national fast day was held in Britain, to pray for success in the Seven Years War.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
1: 226

1263: Balliol College, Oxford, was founded by Sir...

Building and people item

1263

Balliol College , Oxford, was founded by Sir John de Balliol , with the eventual help of his wife, Dervorguilla .
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1552
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
504

June 1923: Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased...

Writer or writing item

June 1923

Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased publication in New York.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
276

5 February 1801: William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after...

National or international item

5 February 1801

William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after failing to persuade the king that Catholic Emancipation was a necessity for the political health of Ireland.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
340-1

Early November 1848: Frederick William IV of Prussia replaced...

National or international item

Early November 1848

Frederick William IV of Prussia replaced his liberal ministers with a conservative government which adjourned the Constituent Assembly.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
173

1678: Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel...

Writer or writing item

1678

Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel (again a translation from French) was another of the earliest works in English to employ the term novel in its title.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
311
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

October 1963: The editors of the Australian satire magazine...

Writer or writing item

October 1963

The editors of the Australian satire magazine Oz (parent of a London-edited successor) were fined on the charge of producing an obscene publication.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
99

1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...

Writer or writing item

1680

John Dryden , with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid 's Epistles (or Heroides).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

1 October 1958: The United States government established...

National or international item

1 October 1958

The United States government established the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA).
“NASA History Fact Sheet”. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): NASA History Division: NASA History in Brief.

1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...

Women writers item

1886

Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic The Woman Question with her partner Edward Aveling .
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
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.

1912: To celebrate its forty thousandth number,...

Writer or writing item

1912

To celebrate its forty thousandth number, The Times published a supplement on the history of printing and the newspaper press.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
253
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172

Maria Abdy

MA , whose work spans the Romantic and Victorian periods, was a poet who wrote wittily on religious and secular topics, and was an early champion of the governess. With Felicia Hemans , she was...
Maria Abdy Title-page, slightly yellowed, of the earliest, 1834, of a series of volumes which Maria Abdy issued "for private circulation", titled simply "Poetry". It states: "The greater part of these verses have appeared at various times, in different magazines and annuals."

19 December 1732: Benjamin Franklin published the first issue...

Writer or writing item

19 December 1732

Benjamin Franklin published the first issue of Poor Richard'sAlmanac, which went on to sell nearly ten thousand copies a year.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
19 December 2012

1705: According to Oliver Goldsmith, Beau Nash...

Building and people item

1705

According to Oliver Goldsmith , Beau Nash arrived in Bath, whose social life he was to dominate for so long, the same year that the town began its brilliant architectural redesigning.
Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandlers Description of Bath (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Womens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 3, 2000, pp. 447-67.
466n40

1857: A skeleton of the first known remains of...

Building and people item

1857

A skeleton of the first known remains of the people subsequently named Neanderthals (an ice age subspecies of Homo sapiens) was found in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
132