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1854: Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh...

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1854

Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh Smith were invited to join the Pre-Raphaelite Portfolio Club , a group which offered critical appraisals of members' work.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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October 1953: The influential literary and cultural magazine...

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October 1953

The influential literary and cultural magazine Encounter was launched in London; the editors were Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol .
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.
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.
Jacobson, Dan. “The Price”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 22-8.
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Collini, Stefan. “Stainless Splendour”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 6-10.
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December 1917: The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended...

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December 1917

The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Mid 1833 to 1842: Archibald Alison published History of Europe...

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Mid 1833 to 1842

Archibald Alison published History of Europe during the French Revolution.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

By 6 July 1872: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu published In A Glass...

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By 6 July 1872

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu published In A Glass Darkly, including the lesbian vampire story Carmilla.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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1905: Englishman Walter Haggar produced the film...

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1905

Englishman Walter Haggar produced the film The Life of Charles Peace, a horror-drama which was shown at fairground theatres.
Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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1918: The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched...

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1918

The weekly magazine Forget-Me-Not, launched by Alfred Harmsworth in 1891, ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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1983: Aileen La Tourette contributed the stories...

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1983

Aileen La Tourette contributed the stories Passing and Cupiditas to Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones .
La Tourette, Aileen. “Passing”. Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber and Faber, 1983, pp. 178-81.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

December 1921: Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and John...

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December 1921

Frederick Banting , Charles Best , and John J. R. Macleod presented a paper to the American Physiological Society on Banting and Best's discovery of insulin, while working in Macleod's labratory in Toronto.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
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27 September 1540: A Papal Bull officially established the Order...

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27 September 1540

A Papal Bull officially established the Order of the Jesuits at a maximum of sixty members.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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September 2006: J. T. LeRoy, the author of earthy and outspoken...

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September 2006

J. T. LeRoy , the author of earthy and outspoken bestselling novels such as The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things and Sarah, who had been assumed to be male, was revealed to be...

27 April-31 October 1908: London hosted the fourth modern Olympic Games....

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27 April-31 October 1908

London hosted the fourth modern Olympic Games . Women competed for the first time in archery, in which British women took gold, silver, and bronze.
“The 1908 London Olympic Games”. British Olympic Association: The Games: Past.
Zackowitz, Margaret G. “Good Sports, The rise of women at the Olympics”. National Graphic, Vol.
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, No. 2, Aug. 2004, p. prelims.
“Chronology of the Olympic Games”. United States Olympic Team.
The National Geographic gets the date of this meeting wrong...

1916: The Metropolitan Asylums Board Motor Ambulance...

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1916

The Metropolitan Asylums Board Motor Ambulance Section in London was the first major British public institution to employ female drivers.
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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28 April 2009: Kickstarter, the largest-ever crowd-funding...

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28 April 2009

Kickstarter , the largest-ever crowd-funding platform, was launched in New York, USA, and soon spread to embrace projects based in other countries; it opened to British projects on 31 October 2012.
Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/about?ref=nav.

4 April 1838: The British steamship Sirius left Cork for...

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4 April 1838

The British steamship Sirius left Cork for New York, undertaking the first Atlantic crossing entirely by steam.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
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March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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Frances Burney

FB , renowned as a novelist in her youth and middle age, outlived her high reputation; her fourth and last novel (published in 1814) was her least well received. Her diaries and letters, posthumously published...
Frances Burney Photo of the painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney, c. 1784-5. She is turned to the viewer's left with lowered gaze, wearing a long-sleeved pale pink gown with a pink bow and a dark shawl; but the portrait is dominated by her huge hat with puffed-up crown and bow of broad ribbon. National Portrait Gallery

1969: Anguilla, made an associated state with St...

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1969

Anguilla, made an associated state with St Kitts and Nevis two years before, requested a return to colonial status.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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24 August 1939: The day after the German-Russian non-aggression...

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24 August 1939

The day after the German-Russian non-aggression pact was signed, the British government prepared for war with the Emergency Powers Act. The Act put the full authority of the law behind defence regulations issued by the...

1622: William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced...

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1622

William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced the prevailing view that women's lives had public as well as domestic aspects: for them, he wrote, a conscionable performance of household duties was a publike worke.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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Walter Pater

24 September 1985: The Gateways Club for lesbians in Chelsea...

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24 September 1985

The Gateways Club for lesbians in Chelsea finally closed its doors forty years after its founding.
val. “Are You Butch or Femme?”. Brighton Ourstory: 200 years of lesbian and gay history: Newsletters, Vol.
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, 1 June 2003–2026.

1834: Architect Augustus Pugin converted to Roman...

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1834

Architect Augustus Pugin converted to Roman Catholicism; he designed many of the newly-built Catholic churches in the Gothic style.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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1712: A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden...

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1712

A boarding school for girls at the Two Golden Bulls on Mile End Green near London offered domestic science in addition to the usual accomplishments.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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22 January 1828: The Duke of Wellington, leader of the Tory...

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22 January 1828

The Duke of Wellington , leader of the Tory party, formed the government.
Arthur Wellesley was created Viscount Wellington in 1809, earl of Wellington in 1812, marquess in 1812, and duke in 1814.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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