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1867: James Burns established Human Nature, a London...

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1867

James Burns established Human Nature, a London spiritualist newspaper.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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: An International Peace Conference was held...

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Summer 1936

An International Peace Conference was held at Geneva, with a World Youth Congress aimed at exchanging ideas and planning international cooperation for the prevention of war.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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29 July 1986: George Allen and Unwin Limited and Bell and...

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29 July 1986

George Allen and Unwin Limited and Bell and Hyman Limited merged to form Unwin Hyman Limited .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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1861-5: The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a...

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1861-5

The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a period of intense hardship among workers in the cotton industry, produced when the American Civil War disrupted trade.
Longmate, Norman. The Hungry Mills. Temple Smith, 1978.

Georgiana Fullerton

Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction...
Georgiana Fullerton Photo of Georgiana Fullerton. She is wearing a dark, feathery bonnet tied with a large dark bow under her chin, and a dark shawl.

1855: A halfpenny postal rate was introduced for...

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1855

A halfpenny postal rate was introduced for printed circulars; for letters the penny post remained in force.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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20 July 1993: The Sexual Offences Act abolished the legal...

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20 July 1993

The Sexual Offences Act abolished the legal presumption in England and Wales that a boy under fourteen years old was incapable of sexual intercourse, whether natural or unnatural.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1993): 1243

26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...

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26 March 1902

Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford . They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...

1859: The public was shocked to hear that eminent...

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1859

The public was shocked to hear that eminent physician and psychiatrist John Conolly had operated on a kickback system, receiving a 15% commission for each person he certified to confinement at Moorcroft House .
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1899: Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An...

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1899

Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An Englishman: A Romance of a Shop. It appeared in a revised edition thirteen years later.
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.

16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1892: Mary Hoppus, under her married name of Mary...

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1892

Mary Hoppus , under her married name of Mary A. Marks, published her three-volume novel about a murdering doctor, Dr Willoughby Smith.
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.

16-17 October 1903: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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16-17 October 1903

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sponsored a National Convention in Defence of the Civic Rights of Women in London; the conference's aim was to develop strategies to make suffrage an issue in...

4 December 1884: Mark Twain published, not in the USA but...

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4 December 1884

Mark Twain published, not in the USA but at London, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Camfield, Gregg, editor. The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 December 2008

1854-1870: Between these years, women managed at least...

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1854-1870

Between these years, women managed at least 20% of all licensed insane asylums throughout the country.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1910: British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett...

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1910

British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett published a novel which she originally intended for adults, but which became a children's classic: The Secret Garden.
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.

10 December 1983: William Golding from Great Britain was awarded...

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10 December 1983

William Golding from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

1910: Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a...

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1910

Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a set of sensational biographies which includes a chapter on cross-dressing women (particularly female soldiers like Hannah Snell ), and wild speculation that Queen Elizabeth the First was actually...

1835-1840: Rowland Hill proposed and campaigned for...

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1835-1840

Rowland Hill proposed and campaigned for the use of postage stamps.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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6 October 1927: Warner Brothers released the first film with...

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6 October 1927

Warner Brothers released the first film with a spoken dialogue soundtrack, or talkie, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson .
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

27 April 1736: Frederick Prince of Wales married Princess...

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27 April 1736

Frederick Prince of Wales married Princess Augusta , who had first met him two days before, when she landed in England.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
6 (1736): 230
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.
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3 August 1881: The Seventh International Medical Congress...

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3 August 1881

The Seventh International Medical Congress was officially opened in London by the Prince of Wales, bringing medical science onto an international public stage, albeit an all-male one.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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1 January 1866: The West Pier at Brighton was opened. It...

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1 January 1866

The West Pier at Brighton was opened. It stood for more than a century before being partly destroyed by the sea on 29 December 2002 while awaiting restoration, leaving Brighton's Pavilion Pier standing alone.
Hall, Sarah, correspondent. “Brighton landmark succumbs to elements”. The Guardian, 30 Dec. 2002, p. 1.
“The Brighton West Pier: History”. The Brighton West Pier Trust.

1933: American Ginger Rogers (real name Virginia...

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1933

American Ginger Rogers (real name Virginia Katherine McMath) and Fred Astaire made their first movie, Flying Down to Rio: the beginning of a famous screen partnership.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

2 October 1733: The General Evening Post was launched as...

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2 October 1733

The General Evening Post was launched as a thrice-weekly newspaper: one of four papers which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5, 157, 159-61
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