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By 1916: Popular women's magazines hired nutritionists...

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By 1916

Popular women's magazines hired nutritionists to write columns about calories, properdiets, and ideal weights.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...

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26 November 1891

A private command performance of Mascagni 's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria .
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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2 October 2016: An Italian journalist, Claudio Gatti, in...

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2 October 2016

An Italian journalist, Claudio Gatti , in an article in the New York Review of Books, used financial and publishers' records to unmask the best-selling pseudonymous novelist known as Elena Ferrante as a professional...

1941: Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day...

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1941

Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day fine to be levied on anyone refusing to comply with a government work-order; severe fines and prison terms were imposed on conscientious objectors and pacifists.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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30 May 1771: A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all...

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30 May 1771

A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all the faults of French absolutist government to the influence of madame Du Barry (1746-93, mistress to the former monarch Louis XV) and to Marie Antoinette .
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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1656: Pictures of instruments employed in mastectomies...

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1656

Pictures of instruments employed in mastectomies were used to illustrate Armamentarium chirurgicum by Johannes Scultetus the younger.
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 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...

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28 March 1912

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
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1930: The Associated Country Women of the World,...

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1930

The Associated Country Women of the World , or ACWW, was founded in London, with the goal of facilitating mutual aid among women farmers across the world.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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“Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW)”. CharitiesDirect.com.
“About ACWW”. ACWW: The Associated Country Women of the World.

1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...

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1761

The Countess of Huntingdon established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Whitefieldites
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
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12 February 1722: The Quarantine Act received the royal as...

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12 February 1722

The Quarantine Act received the royal assent.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
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23 February 1854: In the Convention of Bloemfontein, the British...

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23 February 1854

In the Convention of Bloemfontein, the British relinquished jurisdiction over the Orange River, and the Orange Free State was formed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 620, 694
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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1959: G.E.M. Anscombe established herself as a...

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1959

G.E.M. Anscombe established herself as a philosopher with her An Introduction to Wittgenstein 's Tractatus.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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O’Grady, Jane. “Obituary: Elizabeth Anscombe”. Guardian Unlimited, 11 Jan. 2001.

1622: William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced...

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1622

William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced the prevailing view that women's lives had public as well as domestic aspects: for them, he wrote, a conscionable performance of household duties was a publike worke.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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3 January-28 March 1850: A weekly periodical entitled The Domestic...

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3 January-28 March 1850

A weekly periodical entitled The Domestic Economist and Advertiser in Every Branch of the Family Establishment began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1947: The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased...

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1947

The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased operation in London, 308 years after the first were licensed, and many years after motor taxis had become predominant.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2002, p. 20.
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20 January 1980: President Jimmy Carter announced that America...

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20 January 1980

President Jimmy Carter announced that America would boycott the MoscowOlympics in an attempt to pressure the Soviet Union, which had invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979.
“Olympic Games, Moscow 1980, Did you know?”. International Olympic Committee.
Morse, Eric. “Be careful whom you boycott”. The Globe and Mail, 27 Mar. 2008, p. A19.
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1896: Hyde Park was opened to bicycle traffic;...

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1896

Hyde Park was opened to bicycle traffic; at this height of the craze, William Whiteley's sold an inventory of 500 bicycles in days.
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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1829: Louis Braille, then a twenty-year-old blind...

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1829

Louis Braille , then a twenty-year-old blind instructor at the Institution Royale pour les Jeunes Aveugles in Paris, perfected his system of reading by feeling 63 different combinations of six raised dots.
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 347-8
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
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February 1928: An Indulgence of Pope Sixtus IV printed by...

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February 1928

An Indulgence of Pope Sixtus IV printed by Caxton , dated by hand 13 December 1476, was discovered in the London Public Record Office by S. K. Ratcliffe .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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: Women's March in London held a March for...

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2019-01-19

Women's March in London held a March for Bread and Roses to protest against policies of austerity in the United Kingdom.
Petter, Olivia. “Women’s March 2019”. Independent, 19 Jan. 2019.
Petter, Olivia. “Women’s March 2019”. Independent, 19 Jan. 2019.

30 June 1936: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind was...

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30 June 1936

Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind was published in the USA after extensive pre-publication boosting as a candidate for the position of Great American Novel.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 June 2009

27 November 1765: In the case of Entick V. Carrington, Lord...

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27 November 1765

In the case of Entick V. Carrington, Lord Camden denied the right of servants of the crown to enter a private house in search of seditious papers.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
35 (1765): 537

Nell Dunn

ND became known in the mid-twentieth century for her documentary-style fiction about the lives of working-class women in London. Her ear for dialogue (the rhythms of working-class speech in particular) and her forthright treatment...

7 May 1663: The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew...

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7 May 1663

The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew and formerly of Vere Street) opened at a new theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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