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18 May 1827: Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder,...

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18 May 1827

Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder , near Ipswich, an event later dubbed the Red Barn Murder.
Slater, Montagu. “Introduction”. Maria Marten; or, The Murder in the Red Barn: A Victorian Melodrama, Heinemann, 1971, p. vii - xiii.
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Burton, Brian J. The Murder of Maria Marten; or, The Red Barn. C. Cambridge, 1964.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

: Martin Eve founded Merlin Publishing in ...

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Summer 1956

Martin Eve founded Merlin Publishing in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...

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16 June 1846

Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church over the conservatives.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
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1833: The Factory Commission noted that just under...

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1833

The Factory Commission noted that just under one fifth of employers provided housing for workers.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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End of July 1903: The Village Press was set up in a barn in...

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End of July 1903

The Village Press was set up in a barn in Park Ridge near Chicago, Illinois, by Frederic and Bertha Goudy .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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11 March 1702: Elizabeth Mallet launched the first successful...

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11 March 1702

Elizabeth Mallet launched the first successful daily newspaper in England, The Daily Courant.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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By 1841: William Tait became secretary of the Edinburgh...

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By 1841

William Tait became secretary of the EdinburghSociety for the Protection of Young Girls .
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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October 1870: Elizabeth Garrett was asked to stand for...

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October 1870

Elizabeth Garrett was asked to stand for the London School Board elections in the local area of Marylebone.
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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By November 1772: After a widespread epidemic of puerperal...

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By November 1772

After a widespread epidemic of puerperal fever, English surgeon Charles White published a Treatise on the Management of Pregnant Women and Lying-in Women.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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1912: Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate...

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1912

Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate through Duckworth .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1839: William Jones argued in favour of the speculum...

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1839

William Jones argued in favour of the speculum in his Practical Observations on the Diseases of Women.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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August 1879: The first commercial telephone exchange in...

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August 1879

The first commercial telephone exchange in the UK opened at Coleman Street, London.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Williams, Trevor I. A Short History of Twentieth-Century Technology, c.1900-c.1950. Clarendon, 1982.
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Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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1925: George Warner privately published Venus in...

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1925

George Warner privately published Venus in Furs, the first English translation of the novel Venus im Pelz by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , 1869.
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.

1 February 1960: Four black students in Greensboro, North...

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1 February 1960

Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, protested segregation by staging a sit-in at the Woolworths lunch-counter when they were refused service.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Harriman, W. Averell. The Twentieth Century: An Almanac. Editors Ferrell, Robert H. and John S. Bowman, World Almanac Publications, 1985.
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By 27 February 1911: The secretary of the Actresses' Franchise...

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By 27 February 1911

The secretary of the Actresses' Franchise League organised a feminist production of Wilde 's Salome (reviewed on this date).
Walkowitz, Judith R. “Women Writing / Women Performing in the Imperial Metropolis”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.

1884: Clergyman Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta...

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1884

Clergyman Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta founded Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street in the London slum of Whitechapel, the first settlement house designed as a centre of help for the local poor, run...

1849: Rebecca Smith was the last woman to be hanged...

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1849

Rebecca Smith was the last woman to be hanged for infanticide.
Smith, Roger. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
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2 February 1953: Theatre Workshop (founded in 1945 in the...

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2 February 1953

Theatre Workshop (founded in 1945 in the north of England) opened at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East (in the East End of London), under the direction of Joan Littlewood .
Theatre Royal, Stratford. http://www.stratfordeast.com/.
Ezard, John, and Michael Billington. “Obituary: Joan Littlewood”. Guardian Unlimited, 23 Sept. 2002.

9 August 1946: The Arts Council of Great Britain received...

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9 August 1946

The Arts Council of Great Britain received its royal charter; its purpose was to make fine arts more accessible to the public by organizing exhibitions and preserving art.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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White, Eric W. The Arts Council of Great Britain. Davis-Poynter, 1975.
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1892: Marshall and Snelgrove introduced the combined...

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1892

Marshall and Snelgrove introduced the combined bodice, petticoat, drawers to be worn over a corset and under a vest.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
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1749: Elizabeth Moxon published at Leeds her manual...

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1749

Elizabeth Moxon published at Leeds her manual on cooking, entertaining, and running a household: English Housewifery. It went through fourteen editions by the end of the century, almost all published at Leeds.
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Ethel Savi

ES published over ninety novels during the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of them about India, as well as a collection of short stories and a memoir of life under the...

2-6 September 1792: Approximately 1,100 inmates, 223 of them...

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2-6 September 1792

Approximately 1,100 inmates, 223 of them priests and other political prisoners, were murdered in Paris prisons.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1801

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy Maria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish 's English translation as Mary Stuart.
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9 July 1885: Karl Pearson (then a solemn, rationalist...

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9 July 1885

Karl Pearson (then a solemn, rationalist young barrister) held the first meeting of a society designed to talk about sex in a spirit of high seriousness and sense of intellectual adventure:
Walkowitz, Judith R. “Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club 1885-1889”. History Workshop Journal, Vol.
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the Men and Women's Club