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26 July 1968: The British Standard Time Act decreed the...

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26 July 1968

The British Standard Time Act decreed the extension of what had formerly been called Summer Time or Daylight Savings (one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or GMT) for the entire year in Britain.
Myers, Joseph. “History of legal time in Britain”. SRCF (Student-Run Computing Facility).

19 August 1874: John Tyndall attacked religion at a British...

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19 August 1874

John Tyndall attacked religion at a British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Belfast.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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Sawyer, Paul L. “Ruskin and Tyndall: The Poetry of Matter and the Poetry of Spirit”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 217-46.
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By May 1922: Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police...

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By May 1922

Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police Women from being disbanded at the recommendation of the Geddes Report.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
179-81
Luck, Joan. The British Policewoman: Her Story. R. Hale, 1979.
135-46

11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...

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11 July 1637

The Bodleian Library 's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud , who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University .
Whitaker, David. “Heresy!”. The Author, Vol.
cxii
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2001–28 Feb. 2002, pp. 160-1.
160

3 September-7 September 1939: Approximately 400,000 London pets were put...

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3 September-7 September 1939

Approximately 400,000 London pets were put down by the RSPCA during the first four days of the war. The animals were turned in as a patriotic gesture to save food.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
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20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...

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20 June 2006

The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
“BBC Calls Time on Top of the Pops”. BBC News: Entertainment, 20 June 2006.

1956: Alice Stewart and others published in the...

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1956

Alice Stewart and others published in the Lancet a ground-breaking study linking childhood cancers with the use of X-rays on pregnant women.
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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July-October 1850: A shilling quarterly for women entitled The...

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July-October 1850

A shilling quarterly for women entitled The Christian Lady's Library: A Quarterly Journal of Religious and Moral Instruction began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1 January 2003: Phil Gyford, a London-based freelance web...

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1 January 2003

Phil Gyford , a London-based freelance web designer, launched the blog The Diary of Samuel Pepys : Daily Entries from the 17th century London diary, devoted to publishing the complete diary, an entry...

12 October 1854: W. H. Russell began reporting in The Times...

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12 October 1854

W. H. Russell began reporting in The Times on army medical service in the Crimean War, specifically on the confusion, mismanagement, and maladministration which he saw at the scene of action.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
274

1604: A law was passed to invoke sanctions against...

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1604

A law was passed to invoke sanctions against bigamy.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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August 1862-March 1863: Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies: A Fairy...

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August 1862-March 1863

Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby was serialised in Macmillan's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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1830: Charles Babbage published Reflections on...

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1830

Charles Babbage published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, an excoriating attack on the Royal Society and a call for science to be given a leadership role in British society, with proper...

Ann Masterman Skinn

AMS is to all intents and purposes a one-work author. Her eighteenth-century epistolary novel, The Old Maid; or, The History of Miss Ravensworth, is vigorous and highly unusual; but any other work is still untraced.

February 1915: Margaret Damer Dawson formed the Women's...

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February 1915

Margaret Damer Dawson formed the Women's Police Service after the Women's Police Volunteers disagreed over its level of cooperation with male police and the military surveillance of women.
Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914. Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1988.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
3: 1045
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
40, 42

January-March 1948: During a bitter winter, Britain struggled...

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January-March 1948

During a bitter winter, Britain struggled with coal shortages resulting from disputes in the recently nationalised mines.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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5 May 1646: King Charles I surrendered to the Scots Covenanters,...

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5 May 1646

King Charles I surrendered to the Scots Covenanters , with whom he had been at war for seven years.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
3: 300

1851: In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or,...

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1851

In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or, a Spy in the Family, Jemima Luke presents a Roman Catholic young woman, Marie, taken in by a Protestant family, where she makes all kinds of trouble.
Peschier, Diana. “Vulnerable Women and the Danger of Gliding Jesuits: England in the Nineteenth Century”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 281-0.
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4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...

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4 November 1836

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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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21 January 1859: Henry Hallam, historian and father of Arthur...

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21 January 1859

Henry Hallam , historian and father of Arthur Henry Hallam , died.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

17 March 1968: In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration...

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17 March 1968

In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration so far, about 10,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Trafalgar Square before marching to Grosvenor Square, where violence broke out.
“1968: Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent”. BBC News: On This Day, 17 Mar. 1968.

January 1791: The musician Joseph Haydn arrived in Eng...

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January 1791

The musician Joseph Haydn arrived in England.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 2 (1791): 230-1

1853: Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston published...

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1853

Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston published anonymously, through John Murray , her Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors. This became a leading source for the better-known, American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855.
Shapiro, Fred R. “Anonymous was a Woman”. Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan.–Feb. 2011.

26 March 1820: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan...

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26 March 1820

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan and Lyudmilla, a narrative, mock-epic, fairy-tale poem in six cantos.
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
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