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.

1750: Samuel Bownas published A Description of...

Building and people item

1750

Samuel Bownas published A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to be a Gospel Minister; Advice to Ministers and Elders among the People Called Quakers.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1918: The University College of Leicester was founded;...

Building and people item

1918

The University College of Leicester was founded; it became the University of Leicester in 1957.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1607
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
428

1970: This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation...

Building and people item

1970

This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation organisations in Britain; the Open Door Council (pursuing the economic emancipation of the woman worker) and the Six Point Group .
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.
7

13 September 1890: William James published Principles of Psychology,...

Writer or writing item

13 September 1890

William James published Principles of Psychology, a key text in its own discipline, whose chief importance for literature may have been its originating the term stream of consciousness.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 September 2012

1869: The Charity Organization Society was founded...

Building and people item

1869

The Charity Organization Society was founded by Octavia Hill .
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
179
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
106

1909: Harriet Stanton Black of the USA gave the...

National or international item

1909

Harriet Stanton Black of the USA gave the first radio broadcast talk and first political broadcast on Votes For Women.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
115

1845: The Monthly Review finally ceased publishing...

Writer or writing item

1845

The Monthly Review finally ceased publishing its latest new series.
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.

1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...

Writer or writing item

1868

Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris 's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 131
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
304, 671

1905: Maude Lawrence was appointed to the British...

Building and people item

1905

Maude Lawrence was appointed to the BritishBoard of Education as Chief Woman Inspector, a newly-created post.
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
34

30 June 1914: Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter...

National or international item

30 June 1914

Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter that South African law regarding Asiatics would be justly enforced.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 715
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
892

September 1914: The Manifesto of the 93 German Intellectuals...

National or international item

September 1914

The Manifesto of the 93 German Intellectuals to the Civilised World provoked outrage among British and French intellectuals and a counter document from Albert Einstein .
Shapin, Steven. “Tod aus Luft”. London Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2006, pp. 7-8.
8

20 September 2006: At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five...

Writer or writing item

20 September 2006

At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five poets laureates (of two Canadian cities, one Canadian province, Canada itself, and the District of Columbia, USA—all, as it happened, women) debated the issues of laureateship.
“Forum: Poetry, Private and Public”. Edmonton Poetry Festival.

1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...

Writer or writing item

1767

At auctions of copyright, Richardson 's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison and Steele 's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare at £1,800, and Pope at £4,400.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
135

1842: The Quarter Sessions Act removed the powers...

National or international item

1842

The Quarter Sessions Act removed the powers of Justices of the Peace to enforce local political censorship.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
220

1889: Elizabeth Cochrane(Nellie Bly), the notorious...

National or international item

1889

Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), the notorious Americanreporter, set out to better the (fictional) record for travellingaround the world set by the hero of Jules Verne 'snovel Around the World in EightyDays.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
333, 336
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
14 November 2016

December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...

Writer or writing item

December 1831

Thomas Carlyle 's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
Hardman, Malcolm. Six Victorian Thinkers. Manchester University Press, 1990.
24
Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. Clarendon, 1978.
1n2

1904: The London Metropolitan Water Board was formed...

Building and people item

1904

The LondonMetropolitan Water Board was formed (after pressure from a series of royal commissions) out of a number of private water companies.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
28

31 December 1791: The Aliens Act was passed by Parliament....

National or international item

31 December 1791

The Aliens Act was passed by Parliament. It was a reaction to the increase in refugees after the French Revolution. The British government was given powers of deportation.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
292-9
Irvine, Sherry. “Immigrants to England, 1550 to 1850”. Ancestry.com.

April-May 1941: Artist Henry Moore drew crayon portraits...

Building and people item

April-May 1941

Artist Henry Moore drew crayon portraits and general views of people sheltering from the Blitz in London Underground stations.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
389

1173: St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated;...

Building and people item

1173

St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated; it may have originated in the infirmary of the Priory of St Mary Overy in Southwark.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277

1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...

Writer or writing item

1913

Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
169

July 1846: The last independent issue of the Foreign...

Writer or writing item

July 1846

The last independent issue of the Foreign Quarterly Review was published; in October it merged with the Westminster Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 136

February-May 1858: Arthur Hugh Clough's epistolary poem Amours...

Writer or writing item

February-May 1858

Arthur Hugh Clough 's epistolary poem Amours de Voyage was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems. Editor Chew, Shirley, Manchester, UK, 1987.
8

29 July 1771: The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus...

Building and people item

29 July 1771

The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus in Uppsala to offer him biological specimens from New York State.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
54

7 June 1837: The London Working Men's Association issued...

National or international item

7 June 1837

The London Working Men's Association issued a Six Point petition in conjunction with six Radical MPs.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
19-20