Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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30 June 1774: The Quebec Act settled the mode of British...
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30 June 1774
The Quebec Act settled the mode of British government in that colony; its validation of the colonists' own law sharpened the grievance of those in the Thirteen Colonies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 77
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
44 (1774): 284
1 May 1807: The British parliament finally abolished...
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1 May 1807
The British parliament
finally abolished the slave trade with effect both at home and in the colonies: a delayed victory for the abolitionist movement.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 581, 651, 689, 710
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
863, 1081
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
242
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
178
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
92
July 1949: The British government set up a judicial...
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July 1949
The British government set up a judicial enquiry into Seretse Khama
's succession as chieftain of the Bangwato people of Bechuanaland; his marriage to a white woman, Ruth Williams, was felt to rule him...
1930: Alfred Garvie published The Christian Ideal...
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1930
Alfred Garvie
published The Christian Ideal for Human Society, a critique of society from a Nonconformist perspective.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
318
June 1907: Womanhood, an improving magazine, ended monthly...
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June 1907
Womanhood, an improving magazine, ended monthly publication from 5 Agar Street, London.
Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
50 P202
22 May 1685: Titus Oates, the informer in the alleged...
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22 May 1685
Titus Oates
, the informer in the alleged Popish Plot, was whipped through the London streets at a cart's tail from Newgate Prison
, where he was incarcerated, to Tyburn.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
810
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
16 December 1949: The Adoption of Children Act (1949) allowed...
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16 December 1949
The Adoption of Children Act (1949) allowed adopted children to inherit through their adoptive families.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1949): 2175-92
Reeves, Josephine. “The Deviant Mother and Child: The Development of Adoption as an Instrument of Social Control”. Journal of Law and Society, Vol.
20
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 1993–28 Feb. 1994, pp. 412-26.
417
15 December 1890: The Women's Union Journal ended publication...
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15 December 1890
The Women's Union Journal ended publication in London.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
23 October-7 November 1942: The Second Battle of El Alamein ended in...
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23 October-7 November 1942
The Second Battle of El Alamein ended in a British victory.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
116-18, 119, 121-2
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
335-7
Fighting continued in North Africa. Allied forces landed in the French colonial possessions of Algeria and Morocco on 8 November...
8 January 1561: John Bodley (father of the library founder...
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8 January 1561
John Bodley
(father of the library founder Sir Thomas
) was granted a licence under the Privy Seal to sole rights for seven years to print the English Bible in a revised text which had...
December 1936: The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded...
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December 1936
The Nobel
Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky
, a German pacifist who had been arrested two years before this and sent to a concentration camp for exposing Nazi
activities in...
23 August 1775: George III proclaimed the American colonies...
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23 August 1775
George III
proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
93
19 December 1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads...
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19 December 1841
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
published Ballads and Other Poems, which included The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Village Blacksmith.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Chamberlain, Jacob Chester, and Luther S. Livingston. A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Privately printed by De Vinne Press, 1908.
30
About 1950: A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented...
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About 1950
A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented growth rates settled in throughout the developed world. In Britain the transformation from postwar austerity was gradual but marked. These conditions lasted until the crisis over oil prices...
22 May 1885: Victor Hugo, novelist and poet, died....
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
192
1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...
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1 October 1828
The Cambridge
campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London
, which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
99
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1878: The Working Men's Association for the Suppression...
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1929: The Church of Scotland was formed by the...
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1929
The Church of Scotland was formed by the unification of the Scottish Presbyterian churches.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
372
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
1950: Motorscooters by Vespa and Lambretta became...
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1950
Motorscooters by Vespa
and Lambretta
became very popular.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
257
1 July 1865: Frederick Warne and Company began business...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 327
27 September 1996: One day after conquering and occupying Kabul...
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27 September 1996
One day after conquering and occupying Kabul in Afghanistan, Taliban
forces expelled 8,000 women students from the university and fired about the same number of women teachers from schools.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Abolish the CIA!”. London Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2004, pp. 25-8.
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1834: Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith,...
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1834
Kirkpatrick MacMillan
, a Scottish blacksmith, invented the pedal tricycle at Keir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
260
12 July 1539: With Henry VIII's personal support, an Act...
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12 July 1539
With Henry VIII
's personal support, an Act came into force establishing Six Articles of Religion for the Church in England (still at this date the Catholic Church
) to subscribe to.
