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June-October 1907: The International Peace Convention, at The...

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June-October 1907

The International Peace Convention, at The Hague, established the conditions for giving hospital ships immunity in wartime.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Jane Collier

JC was a remarkably innovative and experimental prose-writer of the mid-eighteenth century. She produced one anti-conduct-book, one collaborative novel (written together with Sarah Fielding ), a remarkable commonplace-book (only recently discovered), and trenchant literary-critical comments...
Jane Collier Jane Collier's commonplace-book page 78: "Sallys and Jennys Emblem (1751) concerning the Cry", an allegory in which she and Sarah Fielding collaborate on a dressmaking project -- that is, on the experimental novel "The Cry", 1754. Hilda Londry Collection.

Martha Hale

MH had the habit all her adult life (during the later eighteenth century) of writing poems about her closest concerns, both private and public. The generic range of her mostly occasional poetry is wide, from...

1838: The first Travelling Post Office (night trains...

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1838

The first Travelling Post Office (night trains on which mail was sorted in transit) was introduced between London and Liverpool.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Webster, Ben. “Last post sounds end of the line for night mail”. Times, 16 June 2001, p. 3.
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1924: The London School of Hygiene and Tropical...

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1924

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was founded after the amalgamation of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the new School of Hygiene ; it opened in 1929.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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24 April 1769: George Armstrong opened a Dispensary for...

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24 April 1769

George Armstrong opened a Dispensary for the Infant Poor in London.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1885: Henry Irving's famous production of Faust...

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1885

Henry Irving 's famous production of Faust opened at the Lyceum theatre at a cost of nearly £12,000.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Davis, Tracy C. “The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 15-34.
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4 March 1882: Electric tramway cars were in introduced...

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4 March 1882

Electric tramway cars were in introduced in the developing north-east London area of Leytonstone; this was an early date for electric trams.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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By January 1872: Gustave Moynier, an instigator of the Red...

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By January 1872

Gustave Moynier , an instigator of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention, decided (reversing his earlier opinion) that an International Criminal Court to try war crimes was desirable.
Waal, Alex de. “Dangers of Discretion”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 27-9.
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1788: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre published his popular...

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1788

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre published his popular sentimental novel Paul et Virginie, a two-generation story involving friendship between two single mothers living in a kind of exile in the idyllic, colonial, tropical Ile de France...

1508: The first printed books in Scotland appeared...

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1508

The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar .
“First Scottish Books”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

1860-1890: The cost of nursing a single patient in Britain...

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1860-1890

The cost of nursing a single patient in Britain rose four hundred percent.
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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4 November 1869: The weekly scientific journal Nature was...

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4 November 1869

The weekly scientific journal Nature was founded, edited first by Norman Lockyer .
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
159, 165

30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...

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30 September 1967

The BBC 's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3 , and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.
“Third Programme Starts”. BBC Four: Timeline: The Lost Decade, 1945-1955.
Childs, Peter, and Mike Storry, editors. Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. Routledge, 1999.
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1627: An anonymous book appeared at London entitled...

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1627

An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic faith away from the Protestant).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

June 1940: Lord Beaverbrook appealed for scrap metal;...

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June 1940

Lord Beaverbrook appealed for scrap metal; women were encouraged to show their patriotism by donating their pots, kettles, pram wheels, and other metal household objects.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology, 149
Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
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Briggs, Susan. Keep Smiling Through. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
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18 May 1966: Sheila Scott took off from Heathrow Airport...

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18 May 1966

Sheila Scott took off from Heathrow Airport on her way to fly around the globe (32,000 miles in 184 flying hours occupying thirty-three days and three minutes), making her the first British woman to do...

Early 1880s: The first battery-powered vibrator was patented...

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Early 1880s

The first battery-powered vibrator was patented and put into production; unlike many other doctors, inventor British physician Joseph Mortimer Granville opposed its use for treating women.
Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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1840: R. M. Stephenson patented his iron machinery...

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1840

R. M. Stephenson patented his iron machinery for moving stage scenery.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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1793: The liberal Dissenter Benjamin Flowers launched...

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1793

The liberal Dissenter Benjamin Flowers launched a periodical, the Cambridge Intelligencer; it ran until December 1800.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
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1653: Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship...

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1653

Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship (to the Nonconformist printer Ruth Raworth ), and began printing Quaker texts from an unknown address.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
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January 1860: The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth...

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January 1860

The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth Blackwell 's article entitled Letter to Young Ladies Desirous of Studying Medicine.
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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1853: The first public aquarium was stocked at...

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1853

The first public aquarium was stocked at the Royal Zoological Gardens , Regent's Park.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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23 January 1783: Marie Henri Beyle (later the novelist Stendhal)...

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23 January 1783

Marie Henri Beyle (later the novelist Stendhal) was born in Grenoble, France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Over a series of nine poetry volumes published in Ireland, beginning in 1972, ENC 's central theme has been the emergence of female subjectivity
Allen Randolph, Jody. “Making it new”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, May 2000, pp. 24-5.
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and spirituality from variously-depicted hampering and confinement. Her vibrant...