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1890: Men were invited for the first time to the...

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1890

Men were invited for the first time to the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) annual meeting, held in Glasgow.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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9 November 1918: Faced with unemployment, 6,000 female munitions...

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9 November 1918

Faced with unemployment, 6,000 female munitions workers, mainly from Woolwich Arsenal , marched to the House of Commons under the banner Shall Peace Bring Us Starvation.
The banner had no question-mark.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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November 1921: Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts...

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November 1921

Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts began publishing monthly from Rome, Berlin, and New York.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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1890s: The practice of strictly chaperoning unmarried...

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1890s

The practice of strictly chaperoning unmarried women in society was waning, in daytime at least.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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1925: The Baptist Church officially recognised...

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1925

The Baptist Church officially recognised women pastors.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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Autumn 1924: Educator A. S. Neill, who had been running...

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Autumn 1924

Educator A. S. Neill , who had been running a progressive school at Hellerau in Germany, then in Austria, opened a school of the same kind called Summerhill (from the name of the...

17 July 1841: The first number of the comic weekly Punch...

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17 July 1841

The first number of the comic weekly Punch (founded by Douglas Jerrold and others) appeared in print.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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October 1881-December 1881: Mrs Surr and Helen Taylor, London School...

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October 1881-December 1881

Mrs Surr and Helen Taylor , London School Board members, exposed the terrible conditions at Upton House (industrial school for boys).
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
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28 May-16 June 1794: Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread...

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28 May-16 June 1794

Edmund Burke made his nine-day speech, spread over the course of this period, in reply to the defence offered at the trial of Warren Hastings .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1511: An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery...

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1511

An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery to qualified persons.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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1963: The tri-cycle oral contraceptive, which improved...

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1963

The tri-cycle oral contraceptive, which improved on earlier progestational agents, was introduced by Joseph Goldzieher and his research team.
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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Ann Eliza Bleecker

AEB , now seen as the finest American lyricist of the late eighteenth century, left only about thirty-six of her poems extant; she destroyed the rest. Two prose fictions were also published after her early death.
Ann Eliza Bleecker Frontispiece to Ann Eliza Bleecker's Posthumous Works, 1793, an engraved portrait bust on a pedestal bearing her name. She looks out from an oval frame decorated with flowers. She faces the viewer, though she is turned slightly to her left. Her hair is off her face, with curls collected at the nape of her neck. She wears a dress with a simple neckline embellished with small ruffles.

By 1600: Playing cards came into use in England from...

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By 1600

Playing cards came into use in England from France: these two countries favoured a king and queen in each suit, a variant of the form used by used by other European countries, which featured...

3 January 1883: The UK began its administration of Egypt...

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3 January 1883

The UK began its administration of Egypt.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 586
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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18 December 1935: The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent...

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18 December 1935

The Hoare-Laval Pact (appeasement of recent territorial aggression by Mussolini 's Italy) was sealed. It enraged Britons to such an extent that Samuel Hoare was compelled to retire from politics.
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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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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21 November 1918: According to the Parliament (Qualification...

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21 November 1918

According to the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act women over thirty were no longer disqualified from becoming Members of Parliament on the basis of sex or marital status.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1918): 349
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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1804: The membership of the Society for the Suppression...

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1804

The membership of the Society for the Suppression of Vice stood at 1200; from this date it shrank steadily.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1754: The Rev. William Dodd published his novel...

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1754

The Rev. William Dodd published his novel The Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend, a morally oversimplified example of the bad-sister-damned/good-sister-saved plot.
Campbell, Ann M. “Sister Plots: The Double in English Courtship Novels”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 27 Mar. 1999.

1 December 1929: The British Actors' Equity Association, the...

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1 December 1929

The British Actors' Equity Association , the first trade union for professional actors, was founded by Ben Webster during a meeting held at the Duke of York's Theatre , London.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
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1828-1866: The number of London households receiving...

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1828-1866

The number of London households receiving water rose from 177,000 to 470,000; this increase marked the influence of the public health movement which began in the 1840s.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
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1500: British female literacy rates at this time...

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1500

British female literacy rates at this time have been estimated as 1%, against a male rate of 10%.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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1916: The Englishwoman's Year Book ended publication...

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1916

The Englishwoman's Year Book ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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January 1874: Following the controversy surrounding female...

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January 1874

Following the controversy surrounding female medical students, Edinburgh University announced that it would no longer teach women.
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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20 June 1950: Despite the opposition of the United Party,...

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20 June 1950

Despite the opposition of the United Party , the Communist Party of South Africa was banned and dissolved by the Unlawful Organizations Bill; it reformed later as the South African Communist Party .
Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.
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1861: The Birmingham public library opened; it...

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1861

The Birmingham public library opened; it was the first library in Britain with a juvenile section.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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