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23 August 1866: Following the Austro-Prussian or Seven Weeks'...

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23 August 1866

Following the Austro-Prussian or Seven Weeks' War, Austria and Prussia signed the Treaty of Prague, which dissolved the existing German Confederation.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Clark, Christopher. “I could bite the table”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2011, pp. 15-16.
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6 January 2021: One year after being identified, the COVID-19 coronavirus killed over two million people globally, with approximately eighty-six thousand deaths in the United Kingdom

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6 January 2021

One year after being identified, the COVID-19 coronavirus killed over two million people globally, with approximately eighty-six thousand deaths in the United Kingdom.
Phillips, Tom. “Global report: coronavirus death toll reaches 2 million”. The Guardian, 16 Jan. 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/global-coronavirus-death-toll-reaches-2-million-people.
 

16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...

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16 October 1987

In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Autumn 1864: The Female Medical College was opened in...

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Autumn 1864

The Female Medical College was opened in London by the Female Medical Society to train midwives.
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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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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11 June-4 July 1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition was...

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11 June-4 July 1936

The International Surrealist Exhibition was held in the New Burlington Galleries , London. English painter Eileen Agar 's work was chosen to be shown alongside her fellow surrealists such as Paul Nash and Henry Moore

1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...

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1 February 1840

Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
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1770: The Lichfield Circle began to develop at...

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1770

The Lichfield Circle began to develop at Lichfield in Staffordshire; the group advocated reform of women's education away from time-filling accomplishments such as japanning and toward intellectual learning.
Rourke, Sherri. The Lichfield Circle and Female Education. University of Alberta, 1985.
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August 1791: Parliament debated the Sierra Leone Bill:...

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August 1791

Parliament debated the Sierra Leone Bill: Sierra Leone in West Africa (where an attempt to establish free black settlers had failed) was designated an asylum for emancipated slaves, organized by British Evangelicals.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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Easter 1848: The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin...

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Easter 1848

The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin was founded after this festival by William John Butler, with Elizabeth Lockhart as mother superior, in Wantage, Berkshire.
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.
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1868: In his Report of the Medical Officer of the...

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1868

In his Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, Dr John Simon recommended against the extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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1857: The Society of Female Artists was founde...

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1857

The Society of Female Artists was founded.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
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2005: Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women...

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2005

Ariel Levy 's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture argued that feminism had been co-opted by consumer culture in ways that were not serving women well.
Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Free Press, 2005.

September to November 1929: Book production rose to an unprecedented...

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September to November 1929

Book production rose to an unprecedented sixty titles per day, most of them novels.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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1898: Modern anthropology (based on fieldwork,...

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1898

Modern anthropology (based on fieldwork, not speculation like that of Sir James Frazer ) is held to have begun with the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait, off Queensland.
Henley, Paul. “Fly in the Soup”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 35-7.
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22 February 1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, was born...

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22 February 1788

Arthur Schopenhauer , philosopher, was born in Danzig (then held by Prussia, now Gdansk in Poland).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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December 1985: Science writer John Langone argued in Discoverer...

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December 1985

Science writer John Langone argued in Discoverer that women were not normally at risk from AIDS, since the vagina is rugged although the anus is fragile.
Koelsch, Patrice Clark. “Mortal Combats”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xvii
, No. 6, Mar. 2000, pp. 18-20.
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December 1869: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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December 1869

The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was formed as part of the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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27 October 1828: Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published...

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27 October 1828

Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published his first novel, Fanshawe, at his own expense.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Clark, C. E. Frazer. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
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1 November 1894: Tsar Alexander III died in the Crimea....

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1 November 1894

Tsar Alexander III died in the Crimea.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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6 May 1913: The House of Commons defeated a private member's...

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6 May 1913

The House of Commons defeated a private member's Representation of the People Bill which would have enfranchised women over twenty-five who were either householders or wives of householders.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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F. Tennyson Jesse

FTJ , one of the few women journalists to report from the Front in the First World War, also published in a wide range of genres.
Reilly, Catherine, editor. The Virago Book of Women’ War Poetry and Verse. Virago, 1997.
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She wrote seven plays of her own and...
F. Tennyson Jesse Black and white photograph of F. Tennyson Jesse, shown from the shoulders up, in a shape with symmetrically ornamental corners. The picture, with strong light and dark contrast, shows her wearing a small hat or headband on short, dark, bushy hair parted in the middle, and a white blouse with black bow.

1899: Josephine Ward published One Poor Scruple:...

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1899

Josephine Ward published One Poor Scruple: A Seven Weeks' Story.
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.
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.

Dorothy Whipple

DW was a popular and successful serious novelist from the 1920s to the 1950s, who also published short stories and a delightful childhood autobiography, and from whose notebooks a form of adult literary autobiography was...
Dorothy Whipple Colour photograph of a blue plaque on the brick wall of Dorothy Whipple's birthplace in Blackburn, Lancs. The plaque has a coat of arms at the top, and reads "The novelist Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893-1966) was born in this house on 26th February 1893."

6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...

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6 April 1955

Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party , following Churchill 's resignation.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...

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5 September 1944

Ten days after Paris was liberated from the occupying Nazis , Le Havre on the French coast was flattened by RAF bombing.
Saint, Andrew. “In Le Havre”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, p. 30.
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