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13 March 1895: Arthur Wing Pinero's New Woman play The Notorious...

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13 March 1895

Arthur Wing Pinero 's New Woman play The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith opened at the Garrick Theatre in London.
Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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17 December 1888: The original Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue,...

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17 December 1888

The original Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , London, opened as a venue with a comic opera, Dorothy.
Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London. http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/westendvenues/lyric.htm.

10 March 1922: Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition...

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10 March 1922

Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition in Amhedabad, India, shortly after calling off his campaigns of civil disobedience and boycotts.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 840-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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17 July 1888: Dr Fridtjof Nansen set off to lead an exploring...

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17 July 1888

Dr Fridtjof Nansen set off to lead an exploring party of five others across Greenland (east to west) on snowshoes.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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December 1960: A criminal trial began which resulted in...

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December 1960

A criminal trial began which resulted in conviction on three charges of a Soho man who published The Ladies Directory, a periodical in which prostitutes could advertise their services.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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1906: Mary MacArthur founded the National Federation...

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1906

Mary MacArthur founded the National Federation of Women Workers in England and Scotland.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Lawrence, Elizabeth. Gender and Trade Unions. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Mary MacArthur

By May 1797: William Wilberforce published A Practical...

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By May 1797

William Wilberforce published A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country contrasted with real Christianity.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797): 410

: The young Vita Sackville-West, travelling...

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Autumn 1909

The young Vita Sackville-West , travelling in Russia (now Ukraine), saw the serfs grovelling up to their master and being slashed at carelessly with a dog-whip for their pains.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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December 1958: Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company,...

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December 1958

Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company , to perform both at Stratford and in London.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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October 1892: F. A. Atkins edited the first issue of The...

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October 1892

F. A. Atkins edited the first issue of The Young Woman, a magazine for girls interested in religion, published in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Barrell, Joan, and Brian Braithwaite. The Business of Women’s Magazines. 2nd ed., Kogan Page, 1988.
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Tye, J. R. Periodicals of the Nineties: A Checklist of Literary Periodicals Published in the British Isles at Longer than Fortnightly Intervals 1890-1899. Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1974.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Mary McCarthy

United States novelist MMC began publishing her critical essays and novels in the late nineteen thirties. She is best known for her novel The Group, 1963 (about the relations among a group of young...

1839: Theodor Schwann published the results of...

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1839

Theodor Schwann published the results of his cell research, translated into English in 1847 as Microscopical Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
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1976: A prosecution for blasphemy was brought against...

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1976

A prosecution for blasphemy was brought against the magazine Gay News, for representing Jesus Christ as sexually attracted to men.
Kermode, Frank. “Zounds”. London Review of Books, 24 Jan. 2002, pp. 19-20.
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July 1775: On the death of Charles Say (a major London...

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July 1775

On the death of Charles Say (a major London printer, publisher of the official newspaper The Gazetteer), his widow Mary Say took over the business.
Barker, Hannah. “Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 81-100.
91-2, 99
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

27 July 1860: Constance Kent was tried and acquitted in...

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27 July 1860

Constance Kent was tried and acquitted in the brutal murder of her young half-brother. Five years later, however, she made a confession and was sentenced to death.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
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26 January 1599: A Womans worthe Defended against all the...

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26 January 1599

A Womans worthe Defended against all the men in the world was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

1952: Psychologist Erik Erikson published Childhood...

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1952

Psychologist Erik Erikson published Childhood and Society, in which he hoped that his way of looking would bring children and women back into social history.
Dinnage, Rosemary. “Streamlined Smiles”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 32-3.
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July 1962: The first satellite television pictures were...

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July 1962

The first satellite television pictures were seen in Britain, beamed through Goonhilly Down in Cornwall.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(2 August 1962): 4

20 February 1874: In the election of this year, Irish Home...

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20 February 1874

In the election of this year, Irish Home Rule candidates increased their parliamentary presence more than tenfold, from five to 59 members.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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8 July 1874: Edmund Yates and Grenville Murray launched...

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8 July 1874

Edmund Yates and Grenville Murray launched a weekly they called The World, A Journal for Men and Women. It ran until 1922.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Yates
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.

14 June 1604: John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register...

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14 June 1604

John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register the first dictionary not involving Latin: A Table Alphabeticall . . . of Hard Unusual English Words, for the benefit & help of Ladies, gentlewomen or any...

1913: The Institute of Electrical Engineers elected...

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1913

The Institute of Electrical Engineers elected Hertha Ayrton as its first woman member.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
prelims

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.
Wees, William C. Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde. University of Toronto Press, 1972.
19, 162-79, 213-27

2 July 1912: King George V was present at the first Royal...

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2 July 1912

King George V was present at the first Royal Command Variety Performance at the Palace Theatre in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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27 June 1969: New York City police raided Greenwich Village's...

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27 June 1969

New York City police raided Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn, provoking the first gay riot in the USA; gay and lesbian history began to use Stonewall as a defining date.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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