Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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February 2008: Lambeth Palace Library, the historic library...
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February 2008
Lambeth Palace Library
, the historic library and record office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired for £72,485 a copy of the warrant for the death of Mary, Queen of Scots
.
“Queen’s death warrant copy saved”. BBC News, 19 Feb. 2008.
By December 1751: There was published anonymously The Petition...
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By December 1751
There was published anonymously The Petition of the Unborn Babes to the Censors of the Royal College of Physicians
of London.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
5: 516
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
6: 318
Late 1888: Harry Quilter published Is Marriage a Failure?,...
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Late 1888
Harry Quilter
published Is Marriage a Failure?, a collection of contributions to the debate aroused by Mona Caird
's critique of marriage.
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.
BLC
Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992.
chronology
29 March 1917: The Life and Liberty Movement, founded and...
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
264, 275
Wilkinson, Alan. The Church of England and the First World War. SPCK, 1978.
92
Iremonger, Frederic. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: His Life and Letters. Editor Somervell, David Churchill, Abridged ed., Oxford University Press, 1963.
94
4 December 1845: The position of Peel's Conservative government...
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4 December 1845
The position of Peel
's Conservative
government was severely shaken by a report in the Times that it was about to repeal the Corn Laws.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
215-17
1 January 2003: Phil Gyford, a London-based freelance web...
Writer or writing item
1 January 2003
Phil Gyford
, a London-based freelance web designer, launched the blog The Diary of Samuel Pepys
: Daily Entries from the 17th century London diary, devoted to publishing the complete diary, an entry...
September 1876: Eva Lückes entered Middlesex Hospital as...
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September 1876
Eva Lückes
entered Middlesex Hospital
as a paying probationer; she became a certified nurse less than two years later.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
9
1835-1840: Rowland Hill proposed and campaigned for...
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1835-1840
Rowland Hill
proposed and campaigned for the use of postage stamps.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
24
May-July 1732: A number of poor women at Hackney were paid...
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May-July 1732
A number of poor women at Hackney were paid parish money for nursing the elderly, sick, or insane.
Connors, Richard. “Poor women, the parish and the politics of poverty”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 126-47.
141
5 July 1940: The USA ceased shipping certain strategic...
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5 July 1940
The USA ceased shipping certain strategic items to Japan.
Penrose, Harald. Wings Across the World: An Illustrated History of British Airways. Cassell, 1980.
18
1930s: Tuppenny libraries (also known as Pay-as-you-read...
Writer or writing item
1930s
Tuppenny libraries (also known as Pay-as-you-read or No Deposit libraries) greatly expanded during this decade.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
49-50, 58
By April 2004: Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price...
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By April 2004
Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price for books in Britain (the price printed on the jacket flap or paperback cover) were being opposed by the Society of Authors
and individual writers.
“Authors fight plans that could slash earnings”. Mslexia, No. 21, Apr. 2004, p. 11.
1845: The Chartist Co-operative Land Society was...
Historian Jutta Schwarzkopf
calls it the Chartist Land Co-operative Society.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
187
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
39-41
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
187
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
5-6 October 1789: French market women marched on Versailles...
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5-6 October 1789
French market women marched on Versailles to demand that the king
put an end to bread shortages and relocate to Paris, closer to his people.
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
15, 62-3
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
20-38, 50, 51, 54
5 February 1961: The Sunday Telegraph newspaper began pub...
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5 February 1961
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper began publication.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
140
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.
28 December 1879: One of the worst suspension bridge disasters...
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28 December 1879
One of the worst suspension bridge disasters occurred when the Tay Bridge, Dundee, collapsed during a storm.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
124-5
1 September 1886: The Severn Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel...
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1 September 1886
The Severn Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the UK, opened; it ran for four miles and 628 yards between South Wales and England.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
7
27 July 1954: The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo...
National or international item
27 July 1954
The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmàn
, resigned, following an invasion by a Liberation Army under the direction of the CIA
.
Streeter, Stephen M. “Interpreting the 1954 U. S. Intervention in Guatemala: Realist, Revisionist, and Postrevisionist Perspectives”. The History Teacher, Vol.
34
, No. 1, Nov. 2000.
19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1850-1874: Roman Catholic schools in England increased...
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1850-1874
Roman Catholic schools in England increased fifteen-fold over this period, from 99 to 1,484.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
206
1913: Benefits were introduced in Britain, payable...
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1913
Benefits were introduced in Britain, payable to workers for sickness, unemployment, or maternity leave.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
348
Larsen, Eirinn, and Eirinn Larsen. “Feminist Scholars Define Maternalism and Maternalist Policy”. Gender and the Welfare State, University of Bergen, 1 Mar.–31 May 1996.
1791: Gilbert Wakefield published An Enquiry into...
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1791
Gilbert Wakefield
published An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship, whose arguments were challenged in different ways by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Mary Hays
.
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