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1 July 1927: Parliament passed the Widows' and Orphans'...

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1 July 1927

Parliament passed the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, arranging to pay pensions to the families of deceased Public Officers.
“Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Act”. Ministry of Justice of Malta: Laws of Malta: Main Legislation: Chapter 58.
“Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Act”. Ministry of Justice of Malta: Laws of Malta: Main Legislation: Chapter 58.

1872: The Brighton aquarium was constructed....

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1872

The Brighton aquarium was constructed.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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1880: Bradbury and Evans's periodical Once a Week...

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1880

Bradbury and Evans 's periodical Once a Week ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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1824: The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons,...

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1824

The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons, a monthly magazine on high culture and fashion, was founded in London by Mr and Mrs Bell .
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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1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...

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1836

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon : the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.
“Women and the Academy”. Higher Learning in America: History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University.

1945: The Republic of Ireland created the Irish...

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1945

The Republic of Ireland created the Irish Transport Company from the Great Southern Railways and a Dublin bus company, the Dublin United Transport Company .
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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August 1759: Russia's victory over Frederick the Great...

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August 1759

Russia's victory over Frederick the Great at Kunersdorff gave it a new status in European politics.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
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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...

1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...

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1798

Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Graham, Kenneth W. “Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the Divisive 1790s”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2002, pp. 33-46.
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Shapin, Steven. “Libel on the Human Race”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 11, 5 June 2015, pp. 26-9.

By 1821: The number of circulating libraries in Britain...

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By 1821

The number of circulating libraries in Britain stood at one thousand five hundred: up by half as much again in the previous twenty years.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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1925: The Baptist Church officially recognised...

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1925

The Baptist Church officially recognised women pastors.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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29 January 1793: William Wordsworth published two early poems,...

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29 January 1793

William Wordsworth published two early poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
Maxwell, James Coutts, and William Wordsworth. “Table of Dates”. The Prelude, Penguin, 1971, pp. 7-15.
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: 750,000 men were employed in Ireland's public...

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Spring 1847

750,000 men were employed in Ireland's public works, in a policy designed to relieve the distress caused by repeated crop failures (particularly of potatoes).
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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1850: The Poor Law Board of London demanded that...

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1850

The Poor Law Board of London demanded that workhouse Guardians hire fewer nurses for the paupers.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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25 May 1760: Dr James Fordyce, a minister in the Church...

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25 May 1760

Dr James Fordyce , a minister in the Church of Scotland , preached a sermon which, as published, made him famous: The Folly, Infamy, and Misery of Unlawful Pleasure.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995.
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1841: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew were made...

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1841

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew were made a public botanical garden.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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28 June 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was...

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28 June 1939

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established for duty with the all-male Royal Air Force (RAF) in time of war. It was mobilized two months later, and in the Second World War gave a...

28 May 1920: Ex-servicemen in Bristol attacked female-operated...

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28 May 1920

Ex-servicemen in Bristol attacked female-operated trams in frustration over their own lack of jobs.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
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From 6 April 1942: White bread was no longer available in Britain,...

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From 6 April 1942

White bread was no longer available in Britain, owing to wartime austerity.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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2 October 1733: The General Evening Post was launched as...

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2 October 1733

The General Evening Post was launched as a thrice-weekly newspaper: one of four papers which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
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, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5, 157, 159-61
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.

Frances Cornford

Frances Cornford published nine books of poetry and three translations between 1910 and 1960. Her poems usually address the subjects of female lives lived by forced necessity apart from the busy, noisy main stream. Her...

Antonia Fraser

The writing of AF , who published her first book in 1954 and remains active in the early twenty-first century, falls into several distinct categories. She engaged first in children's writing, then in historical scholarship...
Antonia Fraser Black-and-white portrait photo of Antonia Fraser, 23 January 1969. She has long blonde hair which is half-up, and wears a white blouse with a lacy collar under a dark vest. She has long lower eyelashes.

1792: The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792...

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1792

The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792 listed 53 women as lodging-house keepers.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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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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1852: The Rev. Mr Bennet, Puseyite rector of St...

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1852

The Rev. Mr Bennet , Puseyite rector of St Barnabas in Pimlico, was immortalised in Madame Tussaud 's wax museum.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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