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October 1947: Stafford Cripps, recently appointed Minister...

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October 1947

Stafford Cripps , recently appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the postwar Labour government, delivered the landmark Economic Survey for 1947. This government white paper set out the principles of democratic planning, reconciling...

1840-1894: According to The Lancet, the number of annual...

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1840-1894

According to The Lancet, the number of annual deaths from cancer in England and Wales rose by 18,636 people over fifty-four years.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas

The known tracts and prophecies of LED (formerly Davies), published during the long political crisis of the mid seventeenth century, numbered at last count 69 extant texts and 77 including those which have apparently not...

2 May 1709: Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was...

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2 May 1709

Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was published, including Pope 's Pastorals and poems by Anne Finch (which are placed between work by Pope and Swift ).
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
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Annie Louisa Walker

Writing in the late nineteenth century at first in Canada and later in England, ALW produced six novels, two books of poetry, a volume of plays for children and several short stories. She was...

1954: The London branch of Australian publishing...

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1954

The London branch of Australian publishing firm Angus and Robertson was organized by Barry Rowland and Hector MacQuarrie .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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10 June 1940: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born black internationalist...

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10 June 1940

Marcus Garvey , Jamaican-born black internationalist politician, died in obscurity at West Kensington in London. His Universal Negro Improvement Association or UNIA, founded in 1914, had collapsed during the 1920s.
“Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)”. The Afrocentric Experience.

1895-1901: Carl Jung studied medicine at Basel, Swi...

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1895-1901

Carl Jung studied medicine at Basel, Switzerland.
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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Martin Ross

It is widely suspected that MR may have been the dominant partner, the chief creative spirit, in the partnership of Somerville and Ross which occupied the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (though the opposite...
Martin Ross Black and white, head-and-shoulders photo of Martin Ross, seen in profile. She wears a dark, sleeveless evening dress with beading at the shoulder, and her dark, curly hair in a pleat on her head..

Autumn 1794: The harvest failed in Britain this year,...

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Autumn 1794

The harvest failed in Britain this year, producing food shortages. A particularly hard winter followed, causing serious distress among the poor.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 382-3

November 1952: The United States exploded a prototype H-bomb...

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November 1952

The United States exploded a prototype H-bomb (about 700 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atom bomb) on the island of Elugelab in the Pacific, which it obliterated.
Broad, William J. “Who built the H-bomb?”. Edmonton Journal, 29 Apr. 2001, p. E11.
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20 February 1909: F. T. Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism,...

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20 February 1909

F. T. Marinetti 's Founding Manifesto of Futurism, declaring the Futurists' intent to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, was published on the front page of Le Figaro,
Fisher, Mark. “Objections to the Object”. Times Literary Supplement, 22 Mar. 2002, pp. 13-14.
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Mary Fage

MF shared her passion for anagrams with Lady Eleanor Douglas and many others in the earlier seventeenth century. She was unique in publishing a book of verse incorporating anagrams and acrostics on the names of...

30 November 1829: Douglas Jerrold's play Thomas à Becket was...

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30 November 1829

Douglas Jerrold 's play Thomas à Becket was performed at the Surrey Theatre .
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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1962: Barbara Salt, who joined the Foreign Service...

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1962

Barbara Salt , who joined the Foreign Service in 1949, was the first woman to be appointed as a British ambassador. She was appointed to Israel, but withdrew due to illness before beginning her term.
Harrison, Brian. “Women in a Men’s House: The Women M.P.s, 1919-1945”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 1986, pp. 623-54.
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Women in Diplomacy: The FCO, 1782-1999. Records and Historical Services, http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/KFile/86cc078ary-2fwomen-2fwomen,0.pdf.
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Winifred Peck

During her extended career in the earlier half of the twentieth century, WP published twenty-five books—mainly novels, with history, biography, a children's book, and two volumes of memoirs—as well as individual stories and girls' school...

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

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1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
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Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
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1 September 1903: First Garden City Limited (an offshoot of...

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1 September 1903

First Garden City Limited (an offshoot of the Garden City Association which dated from June 1899) was founded for the building of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ebenezer Howard

1845: William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin...

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1845

William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin published the satirical A Book of Ballads, as edited by Bon Gaultier.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1889: Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer...

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1889

Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer Sonata; it was quickly translated into English, French, and German.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

6 June 1844: A new Factory Act was implemented, limiting...

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6 June 1844

A new Factory Act was implemented, limiting female factory workers of eighteen years and over to the same hours as young persons aged thirteen to seventeen.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Chapman, Annie Beatrice Wallis, and Mary Wallis Chapman. The Status of Women Under the English Law. George Routledge and Sons, 1909.
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1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...

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1881

The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington described some years later in a letter to The Times.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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1916: The Ministry of Munitions provided funds...

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1916

The Ministry of Munitions provided funds to the Women's Police Service for training women police to supervise munitions factories with large numbers of female workers.
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...

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1804

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter Princess Charlotte ; George III (her grandfather) became her guardian.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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1779: Numbers of Irish Volunteers (unofficial paramilitaries...

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1779

Numbers of Irish Volunteers (unofficial paramilitaries replacing British troops withdrawn from Ireland to fight in America) rose steeply, from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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