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16 February 1945: Lady Denman resigned as Honorary Director...

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16 February 1945

Lady Denman resigned as Honorary Director to protest the exclusion of Women's Land Army members from demobilisation benefits extended to members of other war services.
Twinch, Carol. Women on the Land: Their Story During Two World Wars. Lutterworth, 1990.
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Tyrer, Nicola. They Fought in the Fields: The Women’s Land Army: The Story of a Forgotten Victory. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996.
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1371: Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry began work on...

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1371

Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry began work on The Book of the Knight of the Tower, which later became the first book on the education of women to circulate in England.
Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. Methuen, 1984.
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28 June 1899: Caroline Lindsay read her pamphlet The Art...

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28 June 1899

Caroline Lindsay read her pamphlet The Art of Poetry with Regard to Women Writers to the Women's International Congress for their literary meeting.
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.

20 August 1786: Calonne, French Finance Minister, informed...

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20 August 1786

Calonne , French Finance Minister, informed Louis XVI that the state was in financial crisis and submitted proposals for economic reforms to him.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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1902: The Marine Motoring Association, the first...

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1902

The Marine Motoring Association , the first British motorboating club, was founded.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Sir J. M. Barrie

SJMB began his career in the late nineteenth century as a journalist, then moved to short stories, then novels, then plays. Those of his plays which survive in the repertoire, for professionals or amateurs, all...
Sir J. M. Barrie Photograph of James Barrie, not yet a baron, by Frederick Hollyer, 1892. Barrie sits, wearing a coat, jacket, and waistcoat, with his head tilted to one side and chin resting on his left hand.

1929: The young actor John Gielgud, after success...

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1929

The young actor John Gielgud , after success in the West End (dating from his role in the stage version of Margaret Kennedy 's The Constant Nymph in 1926), took a cut in income to...

1909: Dorothy Levitt published The Woman and the...

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1909

Dorothy Levitt published The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Want to Motor.
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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Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Dorian Gerhold. The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990. Macmillan, 1993.
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26 March 1820: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan...

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26 March 1820

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan and Lyudmilla, a narrative, mock-epic, fairy-tale poem in six cantos.
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
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By May 1804: A year after the declaration of war with...

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By May 1804

A year after the declaration of war with France, 176,000 men in Britain were serving as soldiers: in the regular army, the militia, and private volunteer corps.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Ellen Wood

In a writing career spanning most of the second half of the nineteenth century, EW produced a prodigious body of work (often writing two triple-deckers per year), including sketches, novels, and a series of interconnected...
Ellen Wood Photo of a painting of Ellen Wood by Sydney Hodges. Wood is seated on a red chair gazing straight at the viewer. Her left hand holds a book; she is wearing a blue dress with lace trim around the sleeves and neck, and a lighter blue bow around the collar. Her cap has a broad, sheer ribbon running down from it. She wears a necklace, and a ring on her right index finger. A window behind her opens on a mountain landscape.

1708: The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's...

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1708

The first Quaker bibliography, John Whiting's A Catalogue of Friends' Books. . . , was published by Tace Sowle .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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July 1879-December 1880: A pornographic monthly entitled The Pearl,...

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July 1879-December 1880

A pornographic monthly entitled The Pearl, A Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading ran for eighteen issues.
Battersby, James. “A Prologue after, Not by, Johnson”. Johnsonian News Letter, edited by Robert, Jr DeMaria, Vol.
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, No. 2, Sept. 2004, pp. 55-8.
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16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...

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16 August 1979

BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee 's Bedrock.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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July 1800: A new Combination Act, modifying that of...

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July 1800

A new Combination Act, modifying that of 12 July 1799, outlawed trade unions and strikes.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
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Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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Doreen Wallace

DW published fifty-four books spanning 1918 to the 1970s, of which forty-five were novels,
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p.
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nearly all set in East Anglia and so sometimes ranked as regional. They contain enough romance to make them in...

1926: Les Cents Unes, a women's book club (whose...

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1926

Les Cents Unes , a women's book club (whose name means literally the hundred female ones), was founded in France.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...

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April 2012

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious , which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican 's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is supremeEdmonton Journal, 13 June 2012, p. A21.

End of the 1990s: Bloody conflicts still raged in the Horn...

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End of the 1990s

Bloody conflicts still raged in the Horn of Africa, Angola, Sri Lanka, and the Russian province of Chechnya, while those in Kosovo and in East Timor had only recently ended.
“It will be remembered as the Age of Barbarism”. Guardian Weekly, 30 Dec. 1999–5 Jan. 2000, p. 3.
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Spring 1936: John Lehmann launched the semi-annual New...

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Spring 1936

John Lehmann launched the semi-annual New Writing, which was later published by the Hogarth Press as Folios of New Writing, 1940-1, and as New Writing and Daylight, 1942-6. With it was associated...

Christmas 1889: The Fabian Essays appeared, edited by George...

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Christmas 1889

The Fabian Essays appeared, edited by George Bernard Shaw .
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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1931: Hamish Hamilton established his own publishing...

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1931

Hamish Hamilton established his own publishing house at 90 Great Russell Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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21 February 1831: Steam-driven buses invented by Sir Goldsworthy...

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21 February 1831

Steam-driven buses invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney began regular service between Gloucester and Cheltenham.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
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July 1848: Charles Albert of Piedmont negotiated a short-lived...

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July 1848

Charles Albert of Piedmont negotiated a short-lived Italian union between the territories of Piedmont and Lombardy, Venice, Parma, Modena, and Lucca.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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: 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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