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23 August 1866: Following the Austro-Prussian or Seven Weeks'...

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23 August 1866

Following the Austro-Prussian or Seven Weeks' War, Austria and Prussia signed the Treaty of Prague, which dissolved the existing German Confederation.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Clark, Christopher. “I could bite the table”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2011, pp. 15-16.
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January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

1991: Rabbi Julia Neuberger published a book entitled...

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1991

Rabbi Julia Neuberger published a book entitled Whatever's Happening to Women? Promises, Practices, and Payoffs.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1983: US primatologist Dian Fossey published Gorillas...

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1983

US primatologist Dian Fossey published Gorillas in the Mist, about her experiences doing research in Rwanda.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1869: Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild sponsored the...

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1869

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild sponsored the building of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children in Southwark Bridge Road.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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8 June 2005: The Joint Information Systems Committee,...

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8 June 2005

The Joint Information Systems Committee , JISC, agreed to fund access in perpetuity for all British universities and post-secondary educational institutions to the digital primary-text archive Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
“Accessing the eighteenth century”. JISC inform 11, 13 Sept. 2005.

1980: US novelist Marilynne Robinson published...

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1980

US novelist Marilynne Robinson published her first and best-known novel, Housekeeping: filmed in 1987, it has acquired classic status.
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.
“Fiction”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. Review 31.
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1977: Pirate Jenny, a feminist theatre troupe,...

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1977

Pirate Jenny , a feminist theatre troupe, produced Melissa Murray 's satire Bouncing Back with Benyon.
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.

Sir Richard Steele

3 September 1802: William Wordsworth composed his well-known...

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3 September 1802

William Wordsworth composed his well-known sonnet Upon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
Tollet, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Clarke, 1755.
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Purkis, John. A Preface to Wordsworth. Scribner, 1970.
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Lady Anne Barnard

LAB , in her twenties a notable contributor to the Scots ballad revival, became during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a memoirist, political letter-writer, diarist, and travel-writer, as well as a fine illustrator.
Lady Anne Barnard Black and white photo of a miniature of Lady Anne Barnard. She sits writing with a quill on a sheet of paper, but pauses to look up and to her right with a half-smile. She wears a loose open jacket over a white high-necked blouse, and a large, soft hat in several dark and white layers, with dark feathers on top. Her hair, too, is dark.

1794: The Cymreigyddion Society (a branch of the...

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1794

The Cymreigyddion Society (a branch of the Gwyneddigion Society), was founded in London by twelve male Welsh residents for the purposes of holding political debates, in Welsh, on radical topics which were at this time...

1869: The British government took control of private...

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1869

The British government took control of private telegraph companies, which were absorbed into the Post Office .
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet. Walker and Company, 1998.
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1705: The third edition appeared (apparently the...

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1705

The third edition appeared (apparently the first to survive) of a pornographic work masquerading as social exposé: The London-Bawd. With her Character and Life. Discovering the Various and Subtile Intrigues of Lewd Women.
London, April. “Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 213-27.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

22-30 September 1943: Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley) parachuted...

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22-30 September 1943

Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley) parachuted into France as an operative of Special Operations Executive , the British organization formed to support the French Resistance to the Nazis .
Martin, Douglas. “War heroine outfoxed Nazis”. Edmonton Journal, 26 Mar. 2008, p. E9.
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7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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3 December 1895: Psychologist Anna Freud was born in Vienna,...

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3 December 1895

Psychologist Anna Freud was born in Vienna, Austria.
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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4 May 1975: Feminists working in Cornell University's...

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4 May 1975

Feminists working in Cornell University 's Human Affairs programme staged a public speak-out on discrimination against women in the workplace; they coined the term sexual harassment to describe objectionable actions ranging from inappropriate to violent.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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1859: The Ladies' Collegiate School, Belfast, was...

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1859

The Ladies' Collegiate School , Belfast, was founded by Margaret Byers to prepare Protestant girls to be governesses and teachers.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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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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Summer 1625: England experienced an outbreak of bubonic...

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Summer 1625

England experienced an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
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1902: The Society for the State Registration of...

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1902

The Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses was founded with women's activist Louisa Stevenson as president, former Matrons' Council president Isla Stewart as vice-president, and former Royal British Nurses' Association president Ethel Gordon Fenwick

Agnes Wheeler

AW was one of several women who wrote during the eighteenth century about dialect forms of English. She published two books and left unpublished writings as well. She wrote plays and sketches of local life...

12 July 1885: Lloyd's Weekly News published the story of...

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12 July 1885

Lloyd's Weekly News published the story of Mrs Armstrong, whose daughter's purchase as a white slave had been recounted in Stead 's Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon.
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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18 June 1922-19 July 1924: The Kurds, seeking autonomy, rose in rebellion...

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18 June 1922-19 July 1924

The Kurds, seeking autonomy, rose in rebellion against the British Mandate over Iraq, their homeland.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Buchan, James. “Miss Bell’s fateful lines in the sand”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
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, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 20.
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