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15-16 August 1945: VJ Day produced two days of celebrations...

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15-16 August 1945

VJ Day produced two days of celebrations for victory over Japan. The king and the new Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee , made broadcasts to mark the occasion.
Bennett, Alan. “K. B. McFarlane: A Memoir”. London Review of Books, 4 Sept. 1997, pp. 12-15.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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December 1903: Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein...

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December 1903

Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein became the first woman in the British Empire to run for a national parliament, standing for the Senate while two other Australian women stood for the House of Representatives...

1908: The Children Act or Children's Act passed...

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1908

The Children Act or Children's Act passed by the British Parliament established separate juvenile courts and made many other changes in the treatment of children by the justice system.
Pinchbeck, Ivy, and Margaret Hewitt. Children in English Society. Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1969–1973, 2 vols., http://U of A, Ruth N Flr 4.
II: 492-3
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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John Burke

1886: Henry Allbutt published The Wife's Handbook,...

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1886

Henry Allbutt published The Wife's Handbook, which included a chapter on birth control.
Porter, John F., editor. The Control of Human Fertility. 2nd ed., Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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John Porter has the date of publication as 1885 rather than 1886. I have given Peter Fryer's 1886...

8 April 1838: The Great Western, the first steamship built...

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8 April 1838

The Great Western, the first steamship built especially for transatlantic crossings, left Bristol for New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
85

April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force was established,...

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April 1918

The Women's Royal Air Force was established, with Violet Douglas-Pennant serving as its First Commandant, taking over from Gertrude Crawford 's tenure of less than a year.
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Violet Douglas-Pennant

2 September 1483: William Caxton dated his edition of John...

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2 September 1483

William Caxton dated his edition of John Gower 's only poem in English, Confessio Amantis.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 September 2008

1923: Marion Lyon, Punch's advertising manager,...

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1923

Marion Lyon , Punch's advertising manager, was inaugaurated as the Women's Advertising Club of London 's first president.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Rose Allatini

RA is known for a single novel, Despised and Rejected, 1918, whose pacifist and homosexual content has attracted critics. Yet her career as author of almost forty known novels and a few short stories...

April 1965: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) demonstrators...

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April 1965

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) demonstrators numbering about 150,000 protested against America's war in Vietnam.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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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.
260, 267
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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7 June 1628: Charles I backed down and accepted the Petition...

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7 June 1628

Charles I backed down and accepted the Petition of Right, a statement of the subject's rights and freedoms drawn up by the elderly jurist Sir Edward Coke .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
3: 299, 600
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Coke

670: St Ebba the Elder founded a convent at Ebchester...

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670

St Ebba the Elder founded a convent at Ebchester (on the River Derwent, near Newcastle upon Tyne) and a settlement at Coldingham (on the Northumberland coast).
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
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By 8 March 1718: A maypole standing in The Strand in London...

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By 8 March 1718

A maypole standing in The Strand in London (destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 after such practices were made illegal, and loyally re-erected on 4 April 1661) was after various vicissitudes finally dismantled.
Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.
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March 1887: Following his appointment as Chief Secretary,...

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March 1887

Following his appointment as Chief Secretary, Arthur Balfour undertook a policy towards Ireland popularly characterized as killing Home Rule with kindness.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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25 September 1667: Thomas Willis, in the Latin work translated...

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25 September 1667

Thomas Willis , in the Latin work translated in 1681 as An Essay of the Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock, first suggested that a range of ailments, notably hysteria, originated in the...

10 March 1722: Parliament was dissolved: elections followed...

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10 March 1722

Parliament was dissolved: elections followed before the new parliament was summoned for 10 May.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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24 June 1624: Virginia became a Crown Colony.img: see #...

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24 June 1624

Virginia became a Crown Colony.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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1929: This Quarter ceased publication in Paris;...

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1929

This Quarter ceased publication in Paris; its editors had included Ernest Walsh , Ethel Moorhead , and Kay Boyle .
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
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Ray Strachey

Though RS published three novels between 1907 and 1927 (and a volume of history in collaboration with her husband ), most of her writing is non-fictional and reflects her deep commitment to women's suffrage, women's...

1836: With the opening of Charles Mitchell's advertising...

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1836

With the opening of Charles Mitchell 's advertising agency, this industry gradually became more organized and reputable.
Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
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Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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1756: The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanwa...

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1756

The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanway .
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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4 February 1794: Slavery was abolished throughout France and...

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4 February 1794

Slavery was abolished throughout France and its colonies. From this year until 1804 (two years after Napoleon re-instituted slavery under French jurisdiction), the struggle for abolition virtually lapsed in England.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Popkin, Jeremy D. “Race, Slavery, and the French and Haitian Revolutions”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2003, pp. 113-22.
115, 117
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “Inside the Barrel”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 17, 10 Sept. 2009, pp. 23-4.
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27 March 1998: The US Food and Drug Administration authorised...

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27 March 1998

The USFood and Drug Administration authorised the use of a drug called Viagra to treat male erectile dysfunction.
“National News”. CBC Television.
27 March 2013

Mary Stewart

MS , who began publishing in the mid 1950s, won great success as an author of popular romance thrillers (a genre whose invention her Guardian obituary chalks up to her)
Hore, Rachel. “Mary Stewart obituary”. theguardian.com, 15 May 2014.
and of Arthurian historical novels...