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Early 1918: The League of Free Nations Association was...

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Early 1918

The League of Free Nations Association was founded to promote the idea of a league formed from the existing military alliance of nations who were fighting against Germany.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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1906: Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney,...

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1906

Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney , a feminist psychoanalyst resident in the USA) attended medical school at Freiburg in Germany.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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Probably October 1858: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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Probably October 1858

The Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge was founded through the work of Isa Craig , Elizabeth Garrett , and Lady Stanley of Alderley , and others.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1982, pp. 44-66.
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Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 60-88.
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“Second Annual Report of the Ladies’ National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
3
, No. 18, 1859, pp. 380-87.
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1950: A. J. P. Powell and J. H. Moya planned a...

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1950

A. J. P. Powell and J. H. Moya planned a 30-acre housing estate accommodate 6,500 people at Grosvenor Road, Westminster, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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26 December 1967: Television aired the Beatles' satirical programme...

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26 December 1967

Television aired the Beatles ' satirical programme The Magical Mystery Tour. Its mix of masks, disguises, and jokes included a woman doing strip-tease.
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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25 December 1898: Imperial Penny Postage was proclaimed to...

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25 December 1898

Imperial Penny Postage was proclaimed to most of the British Empire.
Staff, Frank. The Penny Post, 1680-1918. Lutterworth Press, 1964.
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9 June 1812: The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister...

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9 June 1812

The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
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15-24 May 1974: An organization calling itself the Ulster...

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15-24 May 1974

An organization calling itself the Ulster Workers' Council called a general strike in Northern Ireland in response to developments in the Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
“Ulster Workers’ Council Strike”. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN Web Service).

1 December 1941: The British Government introduced a point...

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1 December 1941

The British Government introduced a point scheme to complement rations.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1977: The Benyon Abortion Bill sought to make abortion...

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1977

The Benyon Abortion Bill sought to make abortion far more difficult to obtain.
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.
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About 1950: A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented...

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About 1950

A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented growth rates settled in throughout the developed world. In Britain the transformation from postwar austerity was gradual but marked. These conditions lasted until the crisis over oil prices...

1800: The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's...

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1800

The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's custody rights in the case of a French emigré named De Manneville, whose English wife had left him, taking their only child.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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Zora Neale Hurston

ZNH was an anthropologist who published articles on the subject of African-American folklore, and who also wrote plays, novels, short stories, political and cultural criticism, and an autobiography. She was a central contributor to the...
Zora Neale Hurston Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Zora Neale Hurston smiling. She stands, wearing a small black hat and a sweater with decorated neckline. Library of Congress.

1831: Victor Hugo published his famous novel Notre...

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1831

Victor Hugo published his famous novel Notre Dame de Paris.
Houston, John Porter. Victor Hugo. Twayne, 1974.
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3 May 1808: Goya painted a picture of the defenders of...

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3 May 1808

Goya painted a picture of the defenders of Madrid facing a firing squad after the city's capture by Napoleon .
Newey, Glen. “Effing the Ineffable”. London Review of Books, 25 Nov. 1999, pp. 15-16.
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1872: The Civil Marriage Act in India set restrictions...

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1872

The Civil Marriage Act in India set restrictions on bigamy and on child marriage; it encouraged the remarriage of widows, which had been legalised in 1856.
“History: The Colonial Period”. India Heritage. A Living Portrait of India, 2005.

23 April 1996: The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film...

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23 April 1996

The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television ) Awards were presented at the LondonPalladium in celebration of one hundred years of British film-making.
“1996 British Academy of Film and Television Awards”. Infoplease.

1957: US linguistic theorist Noam Chomsky published...

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1957

US linguistic theorist Noam Chomsky published Syntactic Structures, a highly influential book which argued that deep structures are common to all languages and innate in all children.
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.

1909: The Motor Cycle Racing Club was founded in...

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1909

The Motor Cycle Racing Club was founded in England.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1916: The Academy, an Oxford dating from 1869,...

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1916

The Academy, an Oxford dating from 1869, ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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January 1794: The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began...

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January 1794

The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began publication: although it was moderate rather than radical, it took a strong line against the war with France.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
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White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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Late 1777: Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous...

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Late 1777

Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous The Laws Respecting Women, in four sections, on the personal rights of women, the property of women, crimes committed by and with women (as well as their corresponding...

24 January 1671: Jean Racine's Bérénice, first produced on...

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24 January 1671

Jean Racine 's Bérénice, first produced on stage the previous year, was published.
Walton, Charles Leonard, and Jean Racine. “Introduction”. Bérénice, Oxford University Press, 1965, pp. 9-52.
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Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.

Ellis Cornelia Knight

ECK , whose life was lived close to some makers of history during the French Revolutionary period and later, indulged her scholarly or literary bent in unusual or pioneering genres: a sequel to Samuel Johnson
Ellis Cornelia Knight Photograph of the painting of Ellis Cornelia Knight bywearing Angellica Kauffman. Knight is seated at a desk or table bearing books, papers, and a quill pen in inkstand. She has her left elbow propped up on the desk and another pen in her right hand. She is a simple white dress and blue shawl, with a black belt at her high waist fastened with a cameo. Her dark, curly hair, held by a headband, falls below her shoulders. Her expression is meditative. Manchester Art Gallery.

Marie Corelli

MC was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected...
Marie Corelli Black and white photo of Mary Corelli by F. Adrian, published in 1904. She sits in a chair that is adorned in unusual style with tassels, wearing a pale dress and holding an open book. Her hair is short and curly, artfully disarranged.