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1770: Edward Bancroft followed up his Essay on...

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Edward Bancroft followed up his Essay on the Natural History of Guiana a novel on the same subject-matter, The History of Charles Wentworth.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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1973: The Bahamas became independent from Brit...

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1973

The Bahamas became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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By 5 December 1868: Walter Besant's first book, Early French...

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By 5 December 1868

Walter Besant 's first book, Early French Poetry, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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November 1839: Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque...

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November 1839

Edgar Allan Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which included The Fall of the House of Usher.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Heartman, Charles F., and James R. Canny. A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Kraus Reprint, 1972.
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Robertson, John Wooster. Bibliography of the Writings of Edgar A. Poe. Kraus, 1969.
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30 June 1871: After teaching female medical students for...

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30 June 1871

After teaching female medical students for thirteen months, the extra-mural lecturers at Edinburgh University revoked their resolution and announced that they would no longer teach separate classes.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1881: The Land Nationalisation Society was founded...

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1881

The Land Nationalisation Society was founded by Alfred Russel Wallace and others to work for the abolition of private ownership of land.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. “Introduction”. Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 1-8.
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16 June 1487: The forces of Lambert Simnel (claimant to...

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16 June 1487

The forces of Lambert Simnel (claimant to the throne, self-proclaimed Earl of Warwick, who had some Irish supporters) were defeated by those of Henry VII .
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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By November 1765: A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue...

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By November 1765

A Bristol clergyman published A Dialogue Concerning the Subjection of Women to their Husbands.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...

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20 June 2006

The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
“BBC Calls Time on Top of the Pops”. BBC News: Entertainment, 20 June 2006.

1969-79: During this decade 117 towns and cities in...

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1969-79

During this decade 117 towns and cities in Britain had at least one Women's Liberation Movement group; many major centres had several.
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.
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Spring 1978: Patches, a weekly photostrip romance magazine...

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Spring 1978

Patches, a weekly photostrip romance magazine for teenagers, began publication from D. C. Thomson in London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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Frances Wright

FW was a writer in many genres: her œuvre includes a tragedy and a philosophical essay, but is dominated by political and feminist social critique, much of it taking the apparently ephemeral forms of lectures...
Frances Wright Portrait of Frances Wright by Henry Inman, 1824. She is looking to the left, plainly dressed in black with a red and white scarves, her brown, curly, shoulder-length hair parted in the middle.

1834: Thomas and Emily Davenport collaborated on...

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1834

Thomas and Emily Davenport collaborated on the invention of the first electric motor.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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1842: People's College, the first Working Men's...

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1842

People's College , the first Working Men's College in England, opened in Sheffield; it also admitted women.
Purvis, June, editor. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945. Univeristy College London Press, 1995.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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1942: The Employment of Women (Control of Engagement...

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1942

The Employment of Women (Control of Engagement Order) stipulated that women between 20 and 30 could obtain employment only through employment exchanges.
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...

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1563

Convocation of the Church of England drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1955: She began monthly publication by National...

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1955

She began monthly publication by National Magazine in Broadwick Street, London; edited by Joan Werner-Laurie , it featured large pages and a humorous, brash, down-to-earth tone.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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1702: Hanging paper (i.e. wallpaper) was already...

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1702

Hanging paper (i.e. wallpaper) was already on sale in London, some of it imported from China.
Saumarez Smith, Charles. Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
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Garnett, Oliver. “Paper Chase”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol.
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13 November 1942: British troops (having landed, with other...

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13 November 1942

British troops (having landed, with other Allies in French North Africa, and and after the German invasion of so far unoccupied France had ended existing armistice arrangements) regained control of Tobruk.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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1955: The World Health Organization took over responsibility...

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1955

The World Health Organization took over responsibility for the International Classification of Diseases.
Daston, Lorraine. “Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it”. London Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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March 1941: The Women's Consultative Committee was established...

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March 1941

The Women's Consultative Committee was established to advise Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin on matters of policy affecting women.
Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.
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Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora, 1987.
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Elizabeth Jane Howard

EJH , a novelist of the later twentieth century, has also written short stories (some of them ghost stories), plays, film and television scripts, reviews and articles, biographies, a memoir, and she has edited several...
Elizabeth Jane Howard Black-and-white protrait photo of Elizabeth Jane Howard looking off-camera, circa 1956. She wears a dark turtleneck, beaded stud earrings, and has short hair that falls above her ear and is cut in bangs.

732: Benedictine nun Leoba (Leofgyth) from Kent, later abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, wrote a letter to Archbishop Boniface

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732

Benedictine nun Leoba  (Leofgyth ) from Kent, later abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, wrote a letter to Archbishop Boniface , patron saint of Germany. The letter recalls Boniface's friendship with Leoba’s parents and...

November 1932: The German National Socialist Party (the...

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November 1932

The GermanNational Socialist Party (the Nazis) lost ground in the Reichstag elections.
Mommsen, Wolfgang. “Working Towards the Führer”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 29-30.
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26 December 1910: The London Palladium opened as a music hall...

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26 December 1910

The London Palladium opened as a music hall with a variety bill including one of England's great music hall stars, Nellie Wallace , in a one-act play.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
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