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1858: The first British music hall agency was started...

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1858

The first British music hall agency was started by Ambrose Maynard .
Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
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1832: The British Medical and Surgical Association...

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1832

The British Medical and Surgical Association (later the British Medical Association ) was formed in London; the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held its inaugural meeting at Worcester on 19 July 1832.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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May 1910: The Woman Journalist, the organ of the Society...

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May 1910

The Woman Journalist, the organ of the Society of Women Journalists , began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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January 1783: The publishing house of John Murray launched...

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January 1783

The publishing house of John Murray launched The English Review of Literature, Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and Practical Controversies and Contests; with varying subtitles it ran until 1796.
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.
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 495-03.
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25 January 1884: The Ilbert Bill was enacted by the Indian...

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25 January 1884

The Ilbert Bill was enacted by the Indian Legislative Council. It theoretically empowered senior Indian magistrates to try British subjects in rural areas but had been greatly weakened as a result of claims that such...

1824: Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece...

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1824

Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece of political fiction: Memoirs of Captain Rock, The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, With Some Account of His Ancestors.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...

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1886

Royal Holloway College for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria .
Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
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Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press, 1990.
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Trickett, Rachel. “Women’s Education”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 5-14.
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Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
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Dyhouse provides a date of 1883, but other sources agree on 1886.

Edith Lyttelton

Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality...
Edith Lyttelton Black and white photograph of Edith Lyttelton, wearing a dark velvet dress with a fur trimmed collar and sleeves, with buttons on the shoulders. She is wearing a choker necklace with a black ribbon, and she has a bow in her light hair, which is pulled back. She has an elbow propped on a table and her head rests on that hand.

1659-60: Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed...

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1659-60

Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed in England, though they were only 1% of the population.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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11 August 1869: The Contagious Diseases Act was amended and...

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11 August 1869

The Contagious Diseases Act was amended and extended.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
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Mary Linskill

ML was a regional novelist, short-story writer, and occasionally a poet, whose fiction is shaped by the Yorkshire port of Whitby: by the place of its abbey in religious history and of its fishing...

1826: Charles Tilt established himself as a publisher...

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1826

Charles Tilt established himself as a publisher and bookseller at 86 Fleet Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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1723: James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...

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1723

James Jurin , Secretary of the Royal Society , published a pioneering work of statistical analysis, A Letter to the Learned Caleb Cotesworth . . . Containing A Comparison Between the Morality of the Natural...

3 March 1900: The British Labour Party was launched as...

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3 March 1900

The British Labour Party was launched as the Labour Representation Committee , following a motion proposed the previous year by the rail union.
Younge, Gary. “Party of competing ambitions”. Guardian Weekly, 2–8 Mar. 2000, p. 13.
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Maguire, Tim. “Union goes to war with Labour”. The Guardian, 2 July 2003, p. 1.
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Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

Sarah Anna Lewis was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four...

March 1871: Following the fall of the French Empire,...

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March 1871

Following the fall of the French Empire, England fell back on concocting its own fashions.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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By 18 March 1988: Tom Wolfe's satirical novel The Bonfire of...

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By 18 March 1988

Tom Wolfe 's satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, set in modern-day New York, was published at London.
Hitchens, Christopher. “Mugged by reality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4433, 18–22 Mar. 1988, p. 302.
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1850: The earliest periodical for women in Welsh,...

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1850

The earliest periodical for women in Welsh, the monthly Y Gymraes: cylchgrawn i ferched Cymru, issued its first number at Caerdydd or Cardiff. It was funded by Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover , and...

5 June 1647: Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an...

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5 June 1647

Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an engagement not to disband; using the captive king as hostage, they began issuing manifestoes calling for army reform and army rule.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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: An influential law case, Norton v. Jason,...

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Autumn 1653

An influential law case, Norton v. Jason, set the pattern for eighteen-century trials for seduction of daughters, seen as a violation of the father's rights.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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1760: Denis Diderot published his novel La religieuse;...

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1760

Denis Diderot published his novel La religieuse; it was translated into English as The Nun.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1859: A monthly periodical for women entitled the...

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1859

A monthly periodical for women entitled the What-Not, or Ladies' Handy-Book began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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7 March 1785: A paper by James Hutton was read to the Royal...

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7 March 1785

A paper by James Hutton was read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh , which first propounded his theory, based on the study of rocks and fossils, that the earth was millions of years old...

28 August 1887: The British National Vigilance Association...

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28 August 1887

The BritishNational Vigilance Association supported the hiring of female officers to care for female prisoners.
Levine, Philippa. “Walking the Streets in a Way No Decent Woman Should: Women Police in World War I”. Journal of Modern History, Vol.
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, No. 1, Mar. 1994, pp. 34-78.
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