Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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1887: The Midwives' Institute developed a library...
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1887
The Midwives' Institute
developed a library and the first midwifery journal.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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June 1836: A monthly for women entitled Blackwood's...
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June 1836
A monthly for women entitled Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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March 1973: Official US troop withdrawals from Vietnam...
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March 1973
Official US troop withdrawals from Vietnam followed on the signing of a cease-fire on 23 January.
Kettle, Martin. “Nixon ’wrecked early peace in Vietnam’”. The Guardian, 9 Aug. 2000, p. 3.
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Sayle, Murray. “Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 3-11.
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Bacevich, Andrew. “Small nations, take heed”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2013, pp. 20-1.
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1957: The Homicide Act provided a distinction for...
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1957
The Homicide Act provided a distinction for sentencing purposes between different kinds of murder in Britain: capital or multiple murderers got the death penalty, others a life sentence.
Upton, John. “He huffs and he puffs”. London Review of Books, 19 June 2003, pp. 22-3.
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7 November 1990: Mary Robinson became the first woman President...
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7 November 1990
Mary Robinson
became the first woman President of Ireland.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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20 November 1938: The 1916 Veterans' Association of Ireland...
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20 November 1938
The 1916 Veterans' Association
of Ireland passed a motion protesting against the growing menace of alien immigration, which targeted Jewish refugees.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
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21 August 1911: The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was...
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2026, 10 vols.
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Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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14 December 1987: The Status of Children Act of Ireland struck...
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14 December 1987
The Status of Children Act of Ireland struck down illegitimacy laws, provided for guardianship and maintenance of children, and allowed children of unmarried parents to inherit as if their parents had been married.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
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Sawyer, Roger. We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History. Routledge, 1993.
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18 April 1972: Bangladesh was admitted to the Commonwea...
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18 April 1972
Bangladesh was admitted to the Commonwealth.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
August 1945: Canadian poet, novelist, and critic Elizabeth...
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August 1945
Canadian poet, novelist, and critic Elizabeth Smart
published her first novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (written four years previously during her first pregnancy).
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.
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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...
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.
1993: Marie Mulvey Roberts edited a collection...
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1993
Marie Mulvey Roberts
edited a collection of reprinted women's writings as The Disenfranchised: the Fight for the Suffrage.
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.
1 November 1818: William Hazlitt gave the first lecture in...
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1 November 1818
William Hazlitt
gave the first lecture in his series entitled Lectures on the English Comic Writers.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1981.
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17 September 1832: The first number appeared of The Tourist:...
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17 September 1832
The first number appeared of The Tourist: a Literary and Anti-Slavery Journal, published at London under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society
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July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...
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July 1803
An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon
's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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1676: Following the Great Fire of London, Robert...
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
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Early 1918: The Women's Labour League merged with the...
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Early 1918
The Women's Labour League
merged with the Labour Party
to become the Women's Section: this happened when the Party's new constitution allowed women (and other people) to join as independent members.
Hannam, June. “Women and Politics”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, University College London Press, 1995, pp. 217-45.
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Collette, Christine. For Labour and For Women: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918. Manchester University Press, 1989.
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Callaghan, James. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience. Editor Middleton, Lucy, Croom Helm, 1977.
1 October 1985: New Zealander Janet Frame issued the last...
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1 October 1985
New Zealander Janet Frame
issued the last of three volumes of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City; the first came out in 1982. These books finally spread her fame and quashed her reputation as...
February 1789: French people compiled cahiers des doléances,...
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February 1789
French people compiled cahiers des doléances, or lists of grievances.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
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28 October 1818: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, novelist and playwright,...
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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11 December 1845-29 March 1849: The Anglo-Sikh wars were fought; they concluded...
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11 December 1845-29 March 1849
The Anglo-Sikh wars were fought; they concluded with formal annexation of the Punjab to India.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
