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3 October 1956: The first Soviet ballet company to visit...

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3 October 1956

The first Soviet ballet company to visit Britain, the Bolshoi , performed Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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3 October 1895: Bechuanaland was annexed to the Colony of...

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3 October 1895

Bechuanaland was annexed to the Colony of Cape of Good Hope.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 607
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1624: An Act covering England and Wales was passed...

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1624

An Act covering England and Wales was passed to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard children.
May, Allyson N. “’She at first denied it’: Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 19-49.
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Mrs F. C. Patrick

Mrs. F. C. Patrick appears to have been an Irishwoman living in England. She published three novels—each unusual in itself and markedly different from the other two—in three successive years during the 1790s.

1824: Mary, Lady Shepherd, published her first...

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1824

Mary, Lady Shepherd , published her first major philosophical work, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, a critique of the fourth of David Hume 's Philosophical Essays.
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.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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Catherine Cuthbertson

CC is a fairly conventional novelist of the early nineteenth century. Her seven novels have historically realised settings (often in continental Europe), and happy endings for virtuous upper-class characters. The lower classes (often Irish) provide...

1880: With the arrival of American evangelist Richard...

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1880

With the arrival of American evangelist Richard Booth , Gospel Temperance fever swept across Britain.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a...
Harriet Beecher Stowe Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is seated, wearing a dark dress with long, wide sleeves, buttons up the front, and a high, ruffled collar. She holds a pair of small spectacles in her hands and her fair, short, curly hair looks unbrushed.

1881-1908: Benjamin Tucker published Liberty, an anarchist...

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1881-1908

Benjamin Tucker published Liberty, an anarchist American periodical edited in Boston, Massachusetts.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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31 August 1827: Frederick Robinson, a Tory, formed a coalition...

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31 August 1827

Frederick Robinson , a Tory, formed a coalition government after the death of George Canning .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
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4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...

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4 June 1940

Winston Churchill made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons .
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, and Simon Schama. We shall fight on the beaches. Guardian News and Media, 2007.

May 1850: Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George...

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May 1850

Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George Reynolds as a radical Sunday paper of international news, designed to serve the cause of freedom and democracy.
University of Bradford, Learning Support Services. http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special/reynolds.php.

11 July 1967: The Irish Censorship of Publications Act...

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11 July 1967

The Irish Censorship of Publications Act (1967) allowed books to be unbanned after twelve years, but only if they had been censored for reasons other than advocating contraception or abortion.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
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Sawyer, Roger. We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History. Routledge, 1993.
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2 June 2002: Caroline Hamilton and Ann Daniels completed...

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2 June 2002

Caroline Hamilton and Ann Daniels completed their trek to the North Pole, two years after successfully reaching the South Pole.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Sarah Austin

Sarah Austin was primarily known as a translator of weighty books, but was also an editor and an author of works on female education and German intellectual history. From the 1820s to the 1850s she...
Sarah Austin Head-and-shoulders painting of Sarah Austin by Lady Arthur Russell, c. 1867. She is leaning sideways in a red chair, wearing a white cap with lappets hanging down on each side, and a simple black dress with white collar. National Portrait Gallery.

25 June 1857: Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du...

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25 June 1857

Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du mal, dedicating it to Théophile Gautier .
Culler, Jonathan, and Charles Baudelaire. “Introduction”. The Flowers of Evil, translated by. James McGowan and James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
25 June 2008

June 12 1859: The Whig Party reformed under the leadership...

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June 12 1859

The Whig Party reformed under the leadership of Lord Palmerston , as the Liberal Party .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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1883: Karl Pearson, closest disciple198n111 of...

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1883

Karl Pearson , closest disciple
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
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of Sir Francis Galton (who took over Galton's Eugenics Record Office in 1907), published a lecture, The Ethic of Freethought, which endorses the limitations imposed on women by childbearing.
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.

8 September 1966: International Literacy Day, instituted by...

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8 September 1966

International Literacy Day, instituted by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) late in the previous year, was first celebrated. It has continued on this date since then.
“UNESCO”. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 September 2011

February 1878: The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie...

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February 1878

The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in their famous obscenity trial meant that distribution of birth control information was no longer illegal.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...

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1780

In his poem An Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena .
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
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November 1739: Sir Roger L'Estrange's prose translation...

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November 1739

Sir Roger L'Estrange 's prose translation of Aesop 's Fables (formerly treated in snappy couplets by Aphra Behn ) was printed—by Samuel Richardson .
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela. Editor Sabor, Peter, Penguin, 1985.
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1910: The Elizabeth Arden beauty salon, whose name...

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1910

The Elizabeth Arden beauty salon, whose name was inspired by Tennyson 's poem Enoch Arden, began in New York; it was established by the Canadian-American Florence Nightingale Graham .
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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19 March 1891: The Age of Consent to Marriage Bill was passed...

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19 March 1891

The Age of Consent to Marriage Bill was passed by the IndianLegislative Council; it raised the age of consent for girls from ten to twelve.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 827
Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
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November 1913: Albert W. Gray Jamrach edited in London the...

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November 1913

Albert W. Gray Jamrach edited in London the first issue of the Altruist, a monthly magazine from the Men's Society for Women's Rights , concerned with prostitution.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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