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1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...

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1793

William Freind argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church and state.
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.

July 1915: Others; A Magazine of the New Verse, edited...

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July 1915

Others; A Magazine of the New Verse, edited by Alfred Kreymborg , began monthly publication in Grantwood, New Jersey .
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

28 September 1711: A Post Office Act empowered the Royal Mail...

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28 September 1711

A Post Office Act empowered the Royal Mail to carry letters other than on the main post roads to and from London: the bye or by and cross-post routes.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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1872: The Army and Navy cooperative store was established...

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1872

The Army and Navy cooperative store was established in Victoria Street, London.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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About 1480: A papal decree barred both men and women...

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About 1480

A papal decree barred both men and women from practising medicine in Rome without a licence.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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3 June 1723-17 February 1724: Philip, Duke of Wharton, published a Jacobite...

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3 June 1723-17 February 1724

Philip, Duke of Wharton , published a Jacobite periodical entitled True Briton, until the government suppressed it.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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July 1840: The National Charter Association was fou...

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July 1840

The National Charter Association was founded.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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1880s: The Party of Individual Liberty was founded...

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1880s

The Party of Individual Liberty was founded by Auberon Herbert .
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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28 October 1831: Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated...

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28 October 1831

Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the induction of electromagnetic current.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
258
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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28 October 1701: The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was...

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28 October 1701

The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was chartered.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1915: Madge Mears published her first novel, The...

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1915

Madge Mears published her first novel, The Jealous Goddess. This explores feminist issues that recur throughout her four novels.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

15 August 1917 : A resolution was passed, without debate,...

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15 August 1917

A resolution was passed, without debate, authorizing the House of Commons to spend up to five pounds dismantling the metal grille on the front of the Ladies' Gallery.
Cesvette, Debbie, and Isobel Grundy. Email about the Ladies’ Gallery in the British House of Commons to Isobel Grundy. 23 June 2004.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
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1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...

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1960

Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Catherine Cuthbertson

CC is a fairly conventional novelist of the early nineteenth century. Her seven novels have historically realised settings (often in continental Europe), and happy endings for virtuous upper-class characters. The lower classes (often Irish) provide...

1935: Isabel Grant established the Highland Folk...

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1935

Isabel Grant established the Highland Folk Life collection to preserve and record disappearing traditional Scottish culture.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
334

By 15 August 1868: Isabella Fyvie Mayo, as Edward Garrett, published...

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By 15 August 1868

Isabella Fyvie Mayo , as Edward Garrett, published The Occupations of a Retired Life, her first novel in book form, and her most widely known.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2129 (1868): 205
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.

5 October 1921: The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International),...

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5 October 1921

The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott and Violet Hunt .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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April 1756: Thomas Neale published a treatise on venereal...

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April 1756

Thomas Neale published a treatise on venereal disease.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 (1756): 303-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

25 April 1836: The New Strand Theatre (opened without a...

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25 April 1836

The New Strand Theatre (opened without a licence in London in 1832) re-opened as fully legitimate, managed by W. J. Hammond and Douglas Jerrold .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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1876: T. H. Huxley praised the new term biology...

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1876

T. H. Huxley praised the new term biology as an improvement over the former term, Natural History, which he called old . . .[and] confusing because it conveyed so many meanings.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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1788: The Quaker Thomas Clarkson travelled round...

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1788

The QuakerThomas Clarkson travelled round British ports collecting evidence (in the face of obstacles and opposition) about the operations of the slave trade.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

10 December 1915: For their analysis of crystal structure by...

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10 December 1915

For their analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays, Sir William Henry Bragg and his son Sir William Lawrence Bragg from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

By July 1749: Charles de Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des...

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By July 1749

Charles de Montesquieu 's De l'Esprit des loix (in English On the Spirit of Laws: a key Enlightenment text) was published in London.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 229
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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4 October 1970: In a Hollywood hotel, twenty-seven-year-old...

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4 October 1970

In a Hollywood hotel, twenty-seven-year-old American singer Janis Joplin overdosed on heroin and died.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Rose Macaulay

RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...
Rose Macaulay Photograph of a roughly drawn sketch of Rose Macaulay, depicted from the shoulders up. She is wearing a simple dress and her hair is cut short.