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29 June 1871: The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour...

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29 June 1871

The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour unions but denied workers the right to picket.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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1978: In this year were produced both Elisabeth...

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1978

In this year were produced both Elisabeth Bond 's first play, The Great War Show, and her dramatic representation of a moment in the suffrage struggle, Chalking the Flags, performed by Theatre Mobile .
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.

4 April 1924: The BBC began its national radio broadcasts...

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4 April 1924

The BBC began its national radio broadcasts to schools, with an item by Sir Walford Davies .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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15 January 2001: Jimmy Wales founded (or co-founded with Larry...

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15 January 2001

Jimmy Wales founded (or co-founded with Larry Sanger ) a free, online, user-generated encyclopedia, and named it Wikipedia. It arose from a free, online, but edited encyclopedia, Nupedia, which Wales had launched in 2000.
Runciman, David. “Like Boiling a Frog”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 10, 28 May 2009, pp. 14-16.
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May 1819, May 1820: These months were scheduled for the removal...

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May 1819, May 1820

These months were scheduled for the removal of thousands of subsistence farmers and their families from the Highland estates of Lord and Lady Stafford (later the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland ) in the Sutherland...

14 January 1921: Rosita Forbes (disguised as a Muslim woman)...

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14 January 1921

Rosita Forbes (disguised as a Muslim woman) and Hassanein Bey travelled from Cyrenaica to Kufra in the Libyan desert.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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20 July 1974: Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus (ethnically...

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20 July 1974

Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus (ethnically divided between Greeks and Turks) after a pro-Greek coup in the capital, Nicosia, was unsuccessful.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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July 2009: Headlines were made in Britain when a struggling...

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July 2009

Headlines were made in Britain when a struggling second-hand bookseller in Salisbury blamed its imminent demise on competition from the charity Oxfam .
Flood, Alison. “64,000 Goats”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2010, pp. 18-19.
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During the 1660s: Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty...

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During the 1660s

Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty girls at Barnstaple in Devon.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...

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1904

Sir Walter Raleigh , author of the literary history The English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford .
Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.
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1844-1890: Public asylums became a refuge for pauper...

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1844-1890

Public asylums became a refuge for pauper lunatics, until this group comprised approximately 91%of all patients in mental institutions; over a forty-five year span, the number of pauper lunatics increased four hundred times.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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April 1886: An advertisement in the Scottish Typographical...

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April 1886

An advertisement in the Scottish Typographical Circular cautioned women against becoming compositors; it read, Warning to female compositors: an eminent French physician says that the handling of types has a tendency to destroy the powers...

September 1919: The Woman Engineer, which campaigned for...

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September 1919

The Woman Engineer, which campaigned for equal employment and educational opportunities, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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1 November 1991: Anna Adams published a collection of poetry...

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1 November 1991

Anna Adams published a collection of poetry and prose, Island Chapters, illustrated by her husband .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

1823: Stage costuming underwent a radical change...

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1823

Stage costuming underwent a radical change after Planché was commissioned by Charles Kemble to design new dresses for the production of King John at the Covent Garden Theatre .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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1823: John Jarrold founded a press, with his wife...

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1823

John Jarrold founded a press, with his wife and four sons, at 3 Cockney Lane, Norwich.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 159-61
Cockney Lane was later renamed London Street.

7 September 1912: Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable...

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7 September 1912

Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable ladies' magazine, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1869-1870: Non-violent cruelty was recognized as legal...

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1869-1870

Non-violent cruelty was recognized as legal abuse in the separation case of Kelly v. Kelly.
Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992.
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21 August 1993: The remains of 155 former inmates of a Magdalene...

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21 August 1993

The remains of 155 former inmates of a Magdalene Asylum run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge were discovered in unmarked graves on property sold to developers at High Park in...

January 1881: Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican...

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January 1881

Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican Brotherhood man O'Donovan Rossa (who himself was in the USA) exploded a bomb in Salford, the first time a bomb had been planted in Britain to further...

1807: The Female Penitentiary was founded in London...

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1807

The Female Penitentiary was founded in London as a refuge for fallen and destitute women, but it took in fewer than sixty women a year.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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4 May 1926: The South African parliament passed the Colour...

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4 May 1926

The South African parliament passed the Colour Bar bill, restricting certain occupations to white persons only.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 718

4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...

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4 April 1687

James II 's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics and Dissenting sects; but it remained in force only...

November 1906: The Women's Suffrage Record, edited by Edith...

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November 1906

The Women's Suffrage Record, edited by Edith Palliser , ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1810: James Sheridan Knowles's first play, Leo;...

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1810

James Sheridan Knowles 's first play, Leo; or the Gypsy, was performed in Waterford, Ireland.
Meeks, Leslie Howard. Sheridan Knowles and the Theatre of His Time. Principia Press, 1933.
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