Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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30 June 1774: The Quebec Act settled the mode of British...
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30 June 1774
The Quebec Act settled the mode of British government in that colony; its validation of the colonists' own law sharpened the grievance of those in the Thirteen Colonies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 77
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
44 (1774): 284
1880: The first published report of in vitro fertilisation...
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1880
The first published report of in vitro fertilisation was made by the Viennese embryologist S. L. Schenk
.
Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.
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24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...
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24 December 1922
The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg
's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC
.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
364
Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
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12 June 1895: Telephone service between the post offices...
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12 June 1895
Telephone service between the post offices in London, Edinburgh, and other principal towns in the UK was inaugurated.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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8 March 1910: Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first...
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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17 August 1857: The Industrial Schools Act was passed....
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17 August 1857
The Industrial Schools Act was passed.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
172
Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books, 1972.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Late May 1967: General Nasser of Egypt invaded the Sinai...
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Late May 1967
General Nasser
of Egypt invaded the Sinai peninsula, forcing out the United Nations
Emergency Force which held it.
Krauthammer, Charles. “Let peacekeeping rest in peace”. Guardian Weekly, 8–14 June 2000, p. 31.
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1894: Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg) published...
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1894
Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg)
published her first novel, In Furthest Ind: The Narrative of Mr Edward Carlyon of the Honourable East India Company's Service.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Writer or writing
Author profile
Helen Bannerman
HB
began writing in British India to amuse her two small daughters, published the book The Story of Little Black Sambo at the end of the nineteenth century, and immediately became immensely successful as a...
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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30 June 1735: The Daily Gazetteer: or, London Adventurer...
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30 June 1735
The Daily Gazetteer: or, London Adventurer began publishing.
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.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
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Author profile
Gillian Slovo
After an extraordinary upbringing in 1960s South Africa, daughter of white Communist activists who operated underground, GS
moved to England. She has published thrillers, literary novels, documentary or verbatim plays, and a memoir. Her...
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
26 September 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part...
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26 September 1960
John F. Kennedy
and Richard Nixon
took part in the first televised debate between candidates for the presidency of the United States.
“1960: Kennedy and Nixon Clash in TV debate”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Sept. 1960.
16 June 1824: The first meeting of the Society for the...
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16 June 1824
The first meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA) took place in London.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
16 February 1742: The Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton (Whig),...
