Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
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Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
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20 February 1896: The first films in Britain to charge admission...
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20 February 1896
The first films in Britain to charge admission were shown at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, for three weeks from this day.
Betts, Ernest. The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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1697-9: In a decade including too many lean years,...
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1697-9
In a decade including too many lean years, Scotland was devastated by famine: the last one to occur on the British mainland, though conditions were bad again in Scotland in 1783-4.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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21 February 1991: English ballerina Margot Fonteyn died at...
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21 February 1991
English ballerina Margot Fonteyn
died at the age of seventy-one.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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30 November 1971: The military government of Libya, after two...
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30 November 1971
The military government of Libya, after two years in power, nationalized the British Petroleum Company
; Libya and Iraq severed relations with the UK.
Elizabeth Charles
wrote novels, poems, and hymns, as well as books on historical and religious subjects. Her entire oeuvre is a testament to her vigorous evangelical convictions; her fiction typically marries religious didacticism with a...
1809: Charles Napier (a student at military college;...
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1809
Charles Napier
(a student at military college; later a general) wrote that soldiers ought to be encouraged to marry, but women be barred from going with their husbands on active service.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
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1891: The first ever nurses' registration bill...
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1891
The first ever nurses' registration bill was passed in Cape Colony.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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March 1843: John Elliotson founded The Zoist: A Journal...
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March 1843
John Elliotson
founded The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism, and their Applications to Human Welfare; it ran for thirteen years and marked the height of the mesmerism boom in Britain.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...
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18 August 1823
A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society
was undertaking among slaves.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
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Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.
1404-1405: Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower) held parliaments...
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1404-1405
Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower
) held parliaments and planned for Welsh independence.
Griffiths, Ralph Alan. “The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 166-22.
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1870: The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann...
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1870
The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann
began to dig at Hissarlik in Turkey, on the site of Mycenean Troy (which he believed to be the Troy of Homer
's Iliad).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Schliemann; Mycenae
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
1864: The monthly periodical What-Not, or Ladies'...
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1864
The monthly periodical What-Not, or Ladies' Handy-Book ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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From September 1939: Four out of every six schools in London,...
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From September 1939
Four out of every six schools in London, and six out of every ten schools in Manchester, were requisitioned for official uses anticipated during the coming war.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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Between 1972 and 1976: Four hundred rape crisis centres opened across...
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Between 1972 and 1976
Four hundred rape crisis centres opened across the USA.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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1812: Lord Selkirk sponsored massive Scottish immigration...
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1812
Lord Selkirk
sponsored massive Scottish immigration to Assiniboia in Canada.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Julia Pardoe
The most common topics of Julia Pardoe
's writings were: Turkey, Hungary, French royalty, and fiction featuring women and marriage. Her prolific output in the early and middle years of Victoria's reign includes: three historical...
1908: Conductors Percy Pitt and Hans Richter brought...
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1908
Conductors Percy Pitt
and Hans Richter
brought German opera to England for a season, with great success.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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1899: A lawsuit was brought against Martha Sprague,...
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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24 April 1954: In response to the Mau Mau movement's murders...
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24 April 1954
In response to the Mau Mau
movement's murders of white settlers in Kenya and massacres of loyalist Africans, the British government retaliated with military force, code-named Operation Anvil.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Preston, Peter. “Atrocity at the end of empire”. Guardian Weekly, 28 Jan. 2005, p. 26.
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May Edginton
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was a novelist popular in her day who published more than fifty romances between 1909 and 1955, besides serials, short stories, and plays. Several of her plays did well on stage. One of her...
