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1867-8: Tennyson's Idylls of the King appeared serially...

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Tennyson 's Idylls of the King appeared serially in an edition illustrated by Gustave Doré .
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.

28 February 1922: The UK recognized Egypt (formerly a British...

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28 February 1922

The UK recognized Egypt (formerly a British protectorate) as an independent sovereign state.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 637
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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April 1936: The League of Nations mounted an investigation...

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April 1936

The League of Nations mounted an investigation into Italy's alleged use of poison gas in its invasion of Ethiopia (violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol).
Waal, Alex de. “Dangers of Discretion”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 27-9.
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Anne Damer

AD , who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in...
Anne Damer Marble statue of Anne Damer as the Muse of Sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1778. She stands on a square plinth engraved with her name ("The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer") wearing classical Greek garb, with a flower wreath on her tightly-curled hair and a girdle below her breasts. She holds a statuette of a river god, with urn. British Museum.

14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...

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14 June 1792

The title of radical novelist Robert Bage 's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin and...

1820: David Jones of the Methodist London Missionary...

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1820

David Jones of the Methodist London Missionary Society travelled to Antananarivo in Madagascar, to spread the word of Christianity.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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January 1887: The University Women's Club opened on the...

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January 1887

The University Women's Club opened on the top floors of a house in New Bond Street.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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1921: The St Bride Foundation Printing School moved...

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1921

The St Bride Foundation Printing School moved to Samford Street, London, and was renamed the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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1671: The Game Act raised the property qualification...

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1671

The Game Act raised the property qualification for hunting and shooting game to ownership of a park, or an income of about £100 a year.
Landry, Donna. Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831. Palgrave, 2001.
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7 July 1859: The first meeting of the Society for Promoting...

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7 July 1859

The first meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was held in London; founding members included Anna Jameson , Emily Faithfull , Jessie Boucherett , Adelaide Procter , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Isa Craig , and Sarah Lewin .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Sarah Murray

SM published in 1799 and later expanded on a colourful travel guide to Scotland, northern England and the Hebrides. If she is indeed the same person as Sarah Maese or Mease, she had already...

October 1910: Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Eleanor Barton,...

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October 1910

Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Eleanor Barton , as representatives of the Women's Co-operative Guild , gave evidence to the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes .
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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Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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4 June 1798: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United...

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4 June 1798

Lord Edward Fitzgerald , a leader of the United Irishmen and implicated in the ongoing Irish Rebellion, died in Newgate Prison, Dublin, of the effects of a wound sustained while resisting arrest.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

23 March 1945: Field-Marshal Montgomery led Allied troops...

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23 March 1945

Field-Marshal Montgomery led Allied troops across the Rhine in a large-scale invasion that became known as Operation Plunder.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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1881: Haverly's Coloured Minstrels toured England,...

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1881

Haverly's Coloured Minstrels toured England, proudly advertised as consisting of over 100 real negroes who toured as representatives of the plantation, not as entertainers.
Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Emily Spender

ES , writing in the later nineteenth and the early twentieth century, published half a dozen novels which combine romance with, in some cases, a thesis about politics or gender politics. Her rate of output...

9 April 1763: Christopher Smart published A Song to Da...

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9 April 1763

Christopher Smart published A Song to David.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
15 (1763): 324
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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
9 April 2009

30 September 1946: The Nuremberg trials ended after almost a...

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30 September 1946

The Nuremberg trials ended after almost a year in court, and judges from Allied countries sentenced eleven Nazi war criminals to death.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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West, Rebecca. A Train of Powder. Macmillan, 1955.
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Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 249
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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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.
Appendix I
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...

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By 4 March 1854

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
98-104

By May 1751: James Lind published the first results of...

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By May 1751

James Lind published the first results of his research into scurvy, in his Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of the Seamen in the Royal Navy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
21 (1751): 252

A. Mary F. Robinson

AMFR 's long career occupied the late decades of nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. It spanned two countries, England and France, and two languages, English and French. Robinson was generally...

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and William Henry Young. The First Book of Geometry. J. M. Dent, 1905.

Elizabeth Walker

EW 's writings, dating from the later seventeenth century, comprise diary entries, prayers, meditations, letters, memoirs of early life, writings about her husband, her children and herself, and religious advice designed for them.
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.

1 August 1815: The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever...

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1 August 1815

The surveyor William Smith dated his first-ever geological map of Britain; the national Geological Society cold-shouldered him and published its own map, five years later, which was essentially a plagiarism of his.
Fortey, Richard. “Prophet of the Rocks”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 27-8.
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Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2001.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
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