Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...
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12 October 1984
The IRA
bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party
was holding a conference.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
937, 979-80
4 May 1799: Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British...
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4 May 1799
Forces in Mysore, India, opposing British rule were finally defeated at the second capture of Seringapatam.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
under Seringapatam
Marshall, Peter James. Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813. Allen and Unwin, 1968.
under Seringapatam
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
70 (1800): 165-6
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
11: 237
16 October 1943: 1,060 Jews resident in Rome were deported...
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16 October 1943
1,060 Jews resident in Rome were deported to death camps, although the German ambassador there took the remarkable step of suggesting to the Pope
that he might prevent it.
Johnson, Richard William. “I’m all for it”. London Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2000, pp. 11-12.
12
8 March 1763: William Thomas's diary notes that an old...
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8 March 1763
William Thomas
's diary notes that an old woman buried this day was universally feared in the neighbourhood (south-east Glamorgan) as a witch.
Howell, David W. “Review of R. T. W. Denning, ed., The Diary of William Thomas, 1762-1795, 1995”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 100-1.
101
1822: William Church of Vermont received first...
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1822
William Church
of Vermont received first British patent for a type-composing machine.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
105
16 January 1777: George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket...
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
41
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5.1: 7
1971: Most Swiss women finally acquired the right...
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1971
Most Swiss women finally acquired the right to vote; however, several states or cantons continued to disallow women's suffrage until 1994.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1 May 1787: William Lane advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer...
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1 May 1787
William Lane
advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer his ready-made package for launching a circulating library: he could provide a stock of books at any price from twenty to five hundred pounds to float such a...
1932: Alexander Korda formed London Film Productions...
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
128
1741: James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical...
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1741
James Parsons
published A Mechanical Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, which he said was designed to dispell ignorance and superstition and to reinforce truth.
Costa, Palmira Fontes da. “The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century”. Endeavour, Vol.
24
, No. 1, Mar. 2000, pp. 34-9.
38
January 1963: Kim Philby, perhaps the cleverest of the...
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January 1963
Kim Philby
, perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...
1920: Dr Hugh Crichton-Miller established the Tavistock...
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1920
Dr Hugh Crichton-Miller
established the Tavistock Clinic
in Tavistock Square, London, to provide psychological treatment to the general population and to further research into the prevention and treatment of mental illness.
“The Tavistock Clinic Courses and Professional Training”. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
1960: Honey, a monthly fashion magazine for women...
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1960
Honey, a monthly fashion magazine for women in their late teens and twenties, began publication from Stamford Street, London.
Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
34
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
149
Late 1884: Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first...
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Late 1884
Publisher Henry Vizetelly
produced the first English translations of Émile Zola
: the novels Nana and L'Assommoir.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
317
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
1903: The Representative Church Council was created...
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.
1933: In London, politician William Beveridge and...
