Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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September 1966: Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley presented a...
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September 1966
Cecil Woolf
and John Bagguley
presented a questionnaire to writers on the model of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, by Nancy Cunard
and others (November 1937). They published the results in Authors...
1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...
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1960
Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities
supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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December 1872: Female medical students were granted limited...
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December 1872
Female medical students were granted limited admission to the Royal Infirmary
, Edinburgh.
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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1973: French feminist Monique Wittig published...
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1973
French feminist Monique Wittig
published her novel Le Corps lesbien, translated into English in 1975 as The Lesbian Body.
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.
6 May 1862: Diarist, essayist and naturalist Henry David...
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6 May 1862
Diarist, essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau
died in Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Ann Hatton
Besides her poems and opera librettos dating from the late eighteenth century, AH
published with the Minerva Press
fourteen novels or romances as Ann (or Anne) of Swansea, beginning in 1810. A highly intelligent though...
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.
By September 1976: South Asian women (called by the media strikers...
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By September 1976
South Asian women (called by the media strikers in saris) went on strike at Grunwick Film Processing
plant in Willesden, North London.
Exhibitions and Events, The Women’s Library, Autumn and Winter 2009/10. The Women’s Library, 2009.
Beckett, Andy. “Vuvuzelas Unite”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 20, 22 Oct. 2015, pp. 25-8.
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Pedersen, Susan. “You’re only interested in Hitler, not me”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, 19 Dec. 2013, pp. 16-18.
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January 1911: The League Leaflet, a magazine for members...
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January 1911
The League Leaflet, a magazine for members of the Women's Labour League
, began publication in London.
Collette, Christine. For Labour and For Women: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918. Manchester University Press, 1989.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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15 May 1957: The Conservative government went ahead with...
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15 May 1957
The Conservative government went ahead with the explosion (over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific) of Britain's first thermonuclear bomb.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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“Britain drops its first H-bomb”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 May 1957.
15 March 1815: The Corn Laws came into effect....
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15 March 1815
The Corn Laws came into effect.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Isak Dinesen
ID
, cosmopolitan fiction-writer of the mid twentieth century writing in Danish and English, produced short stories in periodicals and collections, a couple of novels, and two highly unusual books about Africa in which the...
The world's leading iron works opened at the coal-mining centre of Blaenavon in South Wales; it had the longest extant tunnel and connected to the most extensive canal system.
Bruxelles, Simon de. “Church bells ring for a proud Welsh town”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A3.
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1878: Bulgaria gained a measure of independence...
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1878
Bulgaria gained a measure of independence from Turkey.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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25 April 1980: A secret US mission set out to rescue its...
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25 April 1980
A secret US mission set out to rescue its fifty-three hostages held in Tehran. The attempt failed when hardly started, with engine trouble (two helicopters) and trouble in landing or taking off (two more)...
1872: In A History of English Literature William...
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1872
In A History of English LiteratureWilliam Collier
, a professor at Trinity College
, asserted that all criticism is biographical because it is impossible to separate the author from the book.
Collier, William. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches. James Campbell and Son, 1872.
May 1862: Mrs Daniel Jones demonstrated at the 1862...
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May 1862
Mrs Daniel Jones
demonstrated at the 1862 Exhibition a miniature Albion Press and a prayer which she had printed in forty-six languages.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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1857: Louis Pasteur published his paper Memoire...
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1857
Louis Pasteur
published his paper Memoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique, on bacteria and fermentation.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Dubos, René J., and Gerald L. Geison. Pasteur and Modern Science. Editor Brock, Thomas D., New illustrated ed., Science Tech Publishers; Springer-Verlag, 1988.
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10 September 1923: The Irish Free State (Saorstt Éireann) entered...
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10 September 1923
The Irish Free State (Saorstt Éireann) entered the League of Nations
.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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November 1919: The American Senate voted against the United...
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November 1919
The American Senate voted against the United States joining the League of Nations
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Henrik Ibsen
The plays of Henrik Ibsen
, nineteenth-century Norwegian poet and dramatist, were both controversial and enormously influential in Britain; their use of realist techniques to address contemporary social problems helped to bring about a revolution...
