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31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...

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31 March 1920

The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church in Wales, came into effect.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
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Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
188
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
347, 359

August 1751: Mary Blandy allegedly poisoned her father...

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August 1751

Mary Blandy allegedly poisoned her father at the instigation of her suitor William Cranstoun . The father opposed her marriage to Cranstoun, who later turned out to be married already.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
63: 3-4

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.
xxvii and n24

25 May 1912: The Irish Citizen reported that thirteen...

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25 May 1912

The Irish Citizen reported that thirteen Irish Women's Franchise League members were jailed in London for up to two months each between November 1910 and March 1912.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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1 February 1913: Grand Central Station in New York City o...

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1 February 1913

Grand Central Station in New York City opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
182
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
398

1853: In London, 3,000 horse-drawn omnibuses shuttled...

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1853

In London, 3,000 horse-drawn omnibuses shuttled close to 900,000 commuters around the city every day.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
145

1881: Neurologist George Miller Beard published...

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1881

Neurologist George Miller Beard published American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
135, 272

1809: A woman was officially ducked as a scold...

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1809

A woman was officially ducked as a scold at Leominster in Herefordshire.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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25 October 1881: Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor, was...

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25 October 1881

Pablo Picasso , painter and sculptor, was born in Malaga, Spain.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

30 March 1851: The British census showed the proportion...

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30 March 1851

The British census showed the proportion of women in paid employment to have risen from 22.9% to 28.9% in the previous decade; among the employed, the proportion in domestic service had risen to about 80%...

December 1898: Our Sisters, a monthly magazine devoted to...

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December 1898

Our Sisters, a monthly magazine devoted to women of every class, clime and creed, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
40 P157

28 October 1856: The Anglican Sisterhood of Mercy of Devonport...

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28 October 1856

The Anglican Sisterhood of Mercy of Devonport and Plymouth was amalgamated with the Sisterhood of the Holy Cross to found The Congregation of Religious of the Society of the Most Holy Trinity .
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
241-2
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1811: This year the war against Napoleon cost the...

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1811

This year the war against Napoleon cost the British government 56 million pounds (nearly three times the 20 million it had cost in the year 1794).
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
455-6

Eliza Haywood

EH was the most prolific novelist by number of titles (even ignoring those doubtfully ascribed) between Aphra Behn and Charlotte Smith . She also wrote poems, plays, periodicals, conduct books, translation, and theatre history. Her...
Eliza Haywood Black and white engraving of Eliza Haywood by George Vertue after a painting by James Parmentier. It has an oval frame tied with a ribbon at the top and set within a rectangular from. Haywood's hair is tied back, with a lock of it showing on her left shoulder. She is wearing a dress with a deep decolletage and lace at the bosom. This engraving was used as frontispiece to vol. i of her "Secret Histories, Novels and Poems", of which the second (and perhaps only) edition appeared in 1725.

October 1562-1563: Sir John Hawkins, explorer, privateer, and...

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October 1562-1563

Sir John Hawkins , explorer, privateer, and the earliest English slave trader, made the first British Atlantic slave voyage.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
155
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xi, 25

27 July 1919: Race riots took place in Chicago, sparked...

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27 July 1919

Race riots took place in Chicago, sparked by the return of both black and white servicemen from the First World War seeking to reclaim their former jobs.
Newman, Scott A. “The Chicago Race Riot of 1919”. Jazz-Age Chicago, 3 Nov. 2001.

1894: Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg) published...

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1894

Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg) published her first novel, In Furthest Ind: The Narrative of Mr Edward Carlyon of the Honourable East India Company's Service.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.

3 January 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader...

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3 January 1962

Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader Fidel Castro . This was in keeping with the Roman Catholic Church 's decree against its members joining communist organizations.
“Timeline: 1962”. Macrohistory and World Report.
“The Vatican”. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: The Encyclopedia of World History.

1946: The report of the Royal Commission on Equal...

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1946

The report of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay was released.
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
161
Thane, Pat. “The Women of the British Labour Party and Feminism, 1906-1945”. British Feminism in the Twentieth Century, edited by Harold L. Smith, Edward Elgar, 1990, pp. 124-43.
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By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...

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By 4 March 1854

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
98-104

1930: US scientist Thomas Midgely invented Freon,...

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1930

US scientist Thomas Midgely invented Freon, earliest of the chlorofluorocarbon chemicals which became widely used in refrigerators, solvents, and sprays.
Blackbourn, David. “The Prodigal Century”. London Review of Books, 7 June 2001, pp. 30-1.
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Some time in the 1850s: Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave, wrote The...

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Some time in the 1850s

Hannah Crafts , a fugitive slave, wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative; possibly the first novel by a black woman, it reached publication in 2002.
Crafts, Hannah. “Introduction”. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Warner Books, 2002, p. ix - lxxv.
xii, xliv-xlv, lvi

1748: Dr John Profily published An Easy and Exact...

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1748

Dr John Profily published An Easy and Exact Method of Curing the Venereal Disease.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
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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.

Gwen Moffat

Writing from before until after the second half of the twentieth century, GM has covered a huge span of genres. Having written poetry in youth, she turned to journalism (on outdoor subjects) when short of...

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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