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February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.

1853: Charles Watt and Hugh Burgess obtained a...

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1853

Charles Watt and Hugh Burgess obtained a UK patent for the use of wood-pulp in manufacturing paper.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
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March 1760: A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's...

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March 1760

A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's Magazine his plan for a public library in the comparatively small town of Church Langton in Leicestershire.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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1932: Woman's Own, a mass weekly directed at middle-class...

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1932

Woman's Own, a mass weekly directed at middle-class women, began publication in London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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1970: Loving, a weekly magazine of romantic stories,...

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1970

Loving, a weekly magazine of romantic stories, began publication in London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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November 1914: At Lilla Brockway's suggestion, her husband,...

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November 1914

At Lilla Brockway 's suggestion, her husband, Fenner Brockway , wrote a letter that he printed in the Labour Leader calling for all war-resisters to contact him; the No-Conscription Fellowship was established by early 1915.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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22 November 1957: The Passionate Pianist, part of Barbara Vernon's...

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22 November 1957

The Passionate Pianist, part of Barbara Vernon 's The Growing Year dramatic trilogy, was first performed.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

May 1844: The Society for Improving the Condition of...

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May 1844

The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes began to work towards housing reform; the society was a revitalized and revamped version of the Labourer's Friend Society of the previous decade.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
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Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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8 March 1982: The tabloid-format Outwrite, published by...

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8 March 1982

The tabloid-format Outwrite, published by the Feminist Newspaper Group , began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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4 September 1957: The Wolfenden Commission published its Report...

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4 September 1957

The Wolfenden Commission published its Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution which recommended the decriminalization of homosexual acts occurring in private between consenting adults over 21, but suggested stricter regulation of prostitution.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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“Homosexuality ’should not be a crime’”. BBC News: On This Day, 4 Sept. 1957.

1880: The Guildhall School of Music was founded...

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1880

The Guildhall School of Music was founded by the Corporation of London; its first role was to train amateurs in music, but it quickly became the training ground for professional musicians and singers.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 6th ed., Macmillan, 1980, 20 vols.

Elizabeth Richardson

Elizabeth Richardson, Lady Cramond (formerly Ashburnham), was a seventeenth-century devotional writer (of prayers and meditations, maxims, and a treatise on life and death, as well as letters) over a period of almost forty years. She...

1971: Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren opened...

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1971

Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren opened the shop Let It Rock in the King's Road, London; they sold fetishistic and sadomaochistic clothing.
Evans, Caroline, and Minna Thornton. Women & Fashion: A New Look. Quartet Books, 1989.
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1848: John Dicks established his own publishing...

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1848

John Dicks established his own publishing house in London with G. W. M. Reynolds .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 126
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.

Buchi Emecheta

BE was an African writer settled in England and writing about life in London from the point of view of a foreigner or immigrant trying to make her way. Looking back from afar at her...

1976: The National Women's Aid Federation (NWAF)...

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1976

The National Women's Aid Federation (NWAF) split into four separate organisations, for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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24 March 1603: On Queen Elizabeth's death, James I (James...

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24 March 1603

On Queen Elizabeth 's death, James I (James VI of Scotland) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1867: Russian-born Nadeshda Suslowa became the...

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1867

Russian-born Nadeshda Suslowa became the first woman known to earn a medical degree when she graduated from the University of Zurich.
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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10 October 1963: The international Limited Test Ban Treaty...

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10 October 1963

The international Limited Test Ban Treaty came into force: it prohibited testing nuclear weapons on water, in the air, and in space, but not underground.
Byers, Michael. “Back to the Cold War?”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2000, pp. 16-17.
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11 December 1282: The victory of Edward I over Llywelyn ap...

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11 December 1282

The victory of Edward I over Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , and Llywelyn's death on this day, brought Wales under English rule in what today would be called a colonial situation.
Prescott, Sarah. Women, Authorship, and Literary Culture, 1690-1740. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Llywelyn

May 1844: The North British Review began publication...

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May 1844

The North British Review began publication in Edinburgh, appealing to a liberal Christian audience.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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1946: Secretary, deserted single mother, and entrepreneur...

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1946

Secretary, deserted single mother, and entrepreneur Margery Berney (later Hurst) established the Brook Street Bureau , which provided companies with temporary secretaries.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Burnet

EB was a writer of personal texts: journals and letters; spiritual, philosophical, and political critique; and religious self-examination. She published one book, of meditations. Compared with other religious women writers of the late seventeenth and...
Elizabeth Burnet Photograph of a painting of Elizabeth Burnet by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1707. She is depicted standing, with an outdoor background of trees, resting an elbow on pedestal. One hand is at her side; the other hand holds a small book. She is wearing a red-orange dress with white lace at the neckline and wrists, and she has her brown hair in waves on her head, with a gauzy veil trailing behind. National Portrait Gallery

10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...

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10 April 1815

The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
Sample, Ian. “Scientists find lost civilisation”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Mar. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Awfully Present”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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1967: The progesteron-only contraceptive pill (the...

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1967

The progesteron-only contraceptive pill (the mini-pill) was introduced by Martinez-Manautou and his colleagues.
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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