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1960: The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into...

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1960

The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into force the following year) made off-course betting legal in Britain: betting shops sprang up, though their appearance was uninviting.
McKibbin, Ross. “Perhaps a Merlot”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 16-17.
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1707: George Hickes published, as Instructions...

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1707

George Hickes published, as Instructions for the Education of a Daughter, a translation of Fénelon 's Traité de l'éducation des filles, 1687.
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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10 July 1874: The New York Times reported that a successful...

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10 July 1874

The New York Times reported that a successful test of the quadruplex system of telegraphy, developed by Thomas Edison , had been conducted between New York and Philadelphia over a 200-mile loop cicuit.
Iles, George. Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man’s Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color. Doubleday, Page, 1903.
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Jehl, Francis. “Edison and the Telegraph”. The Electric Telegraph: An Historical Anthology, edited by George Shiers, Arno Press, 1977, pp. 32-77.
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Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. John Wiley, 1998.
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By May 1773: William Russell anonymously published An...

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By May 1773

William Russell anonymously published An Essay on the Character, Manner, and Genius of Women in different Ages, translated from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas .
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
35 (1773): 376-81

3 September 1783: The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty...

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3 September 1783

The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty of Paris brought to an end the American War of Independence.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Ann Gomersall

AG 's known publications comprise eighteenth-century novels of an unusually bourgeois tendency, and a long nineteenth-century poem. She wrote because she needed money. Bibliographer James Raven points out that some of her characters change their...

June-November 1800: Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia...

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June-November 1800

Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia and several Southern counties.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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27 July 1953: The Armistice of Panmunjom ended the Korean...

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27 July 1953

The Armistice of Panmunjom ended the Korean War; it advocated partitioning North and South Korea, and these duly became separate countries.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 237
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Constance Naden

CN was a poet, atheist, scientific theorist, and philosopher. Her verse, published early in her short, late-nineteenth-century career, reflects her interests in the biological sciences, the question of evolution, issues of religious faith and doubt...

By 28 March 1846: George Grote published the first volume of...

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By 28 March 1846

George Grote published the first volume of his History of Greece; the eighth and last volume followed a decade later.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
961 (1846): 309
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

15 March 1757: John Dyer published his georgic poem about...

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15 March 1757

John Dyer published his georgic poem about sheep-farming and woollen manufacture, The Fleece. He died the same year, by mid-December.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 402-15
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
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Larsen, Kathryn. “Virtual Textile Workers”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 19 Apr. 2001.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 414 nn7, 8

Lady Eleanor Douglas

The known tracts and prophecies of LED (formerly Davies), published during the long political crisis of the mid seventeenth century, numbered at last count 69 extant texts and 77 including those which have apparently not...

1789: Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles...

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1789

Jeremy Bentham 's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was published.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
158-9

20 August 1786: Calonne, French Finance Minister, informed...

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20 August 1786

Calonne , French Finance Minister, informed Louis XVI that the state was in financial crisis and submitted proposals for economic reforms to him.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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1857: The Army Sanitary Commission reported the...

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1857

The British ArmyArmy Sanitary Commission reported the mortality rate among enlisted men to be twice the rate among civilians.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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1880: In Glasgow the Universalist Church appointed...

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1880

In Glasgow the Universalist Church appointed its first woman minister in Britain, Caroline Soule . US Universalists were ahead of them, having ordained Olympia Brown in 1863.
Gilley, Keith. “The ministry of women”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. 29.
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16 July 1942: In what became known as the raid or roundup...

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16 July 1942

In what became known as the raid or roundup of the Vel' d'Hiv', French policemen and civil servants rounded up thousands of Parisian Jews, children included, and dumped them temporarily at the Vélodrome d'Hiver...

1928: The poet Edmund Blunden published his memoir...

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1928

The poet Edmund Blunden published his memoir Undertones of War, which, with a number of works issued the following year, have been granted canonical status as imaginative accounts of the First World War.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
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1953: At its annual meeting (at Blackpool) the...

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1953

At its annual meeting (at Blackpool) the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds resolved to become a pressure group for lobbying public and political bodies.
“Records of the Townswomen’s Guilds: Harrow on the Hill Branch”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.

1 June 1937: Woman, a mass weekly directed at housewives,...

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1 June 1937

Woman, a mass weekly directed at housewives, began publication; it was the first magazine printed in colour.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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1915: The Women's Co-operative Guild published...

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1915

The Women's Co-operative Guild published Maternity: Letters from Working Women, which revealed the terrible conditions working class women had to endure during pregnancy and childbirth.
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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1792: Thomas Beddoes published Alexander's Expedition;...

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1792

Thomas Beddoes published Alexander's Expedition; it was set up by a woman compositor, whose work he praised in an advertisement.
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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20 September 1523: Argula von Grumbach, a Bavarian whom many...

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20 September 1523

Argula von Grumbach , a Bavarian whom many call the earliest Protestant woman writer, penned two polemical letters which were later published (one to the University of Ingolstadt and one to Duke William IV of Bavaria

1 August 1944: The battered Polish resistance movement mobilised...

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1 August 1944

The battered Polish resistance movement mobilised 40,000 armed insurgents against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw (which was the final obstacle between the advancing Red Army and Berlin).
MacQueen, Angus. “Stuck in the middle of great-power games”. Guardian Weekly, 27 Nov. 2003, p. 16.
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31 May 1962: Adolf Eichmann, Austrian war criminal, was...

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31 May 1962

Adolf Eichmann , Austrian war criminal, was executed: his trial had begun on 11 April 1961.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
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