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: Following an agreement of the British government...

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Summer 1953

Following an agreement of the British government to import German cars to the value of two million pounds over the next year, the Volkswagen (or people's car) went on sale in Britain.
“’People’s Car’ makes UK debut”. Guardian Weekly, 8 June 2007, p. 22.
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Katharine Evans

KE was a Quaker minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers , published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...

1971: Sexual discrimination in hiring practices...

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1971

Sexual discrimination in hiring practices was outlawed in the USA.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1955: Tony Lothian founded the Women of the Year...

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1955

Tony Lothian founded the Women of the Year Lunch.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Elizabeth Bathurst

EB , writing late in the seventeenth century, was one of the most popular women writers to be published by the Sowle Press , the best-known Quaker publishing house. Her three publications (dating from a...

10 December 1963: Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Fielding...

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10 December 1963

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for researching the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes. The prize was shared with...

Mary Scott

As well as an elegy printed during her lifetime and hymns printed after her death in 1793, MS published two ambitious longer poems about whose content she cared passionately: a polemical celebration of women's intellectual...

1880: The Will of the People (a secret terrorist...

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1880

The Will of the People (a secret terrorist group in Russia formed of revolutionaries) blew up a room in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, but Tsar Alexander II escaped.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1555: This year, though well before Sir John Hawkins...

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1555

This year, though well before Sir John Hawkins began operations, is said to have witnessed the arrival of the first cargo of black slaves in London.
Street, Peter. “Slavery in the Eighteenth Century”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 3-7.
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January 1697: Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication...

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January 1697

Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication An Essay upon Projects (advertised for sale this month) the founding of an academy for women.
Kersey, Shirley Nelson, editor. Classics in the Education of Girls and Women. Scarecrow Press, 1981.
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Defoe, Daniel. Essay Upon Projects. Printed by R. R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1697.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

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12 October 1984

The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party was holding a conference.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
937, 979-80

1892: The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee...

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1892

The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee to investigate the work of midwives throughout the country.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Witz, Anne. “Patriarchal Relations and Patterns of Sex Segregation in the Medical Division of Labour”. Gender Segregation at Work, edited by Sylvia Walby, Open University Press, 1988, pp. 74-90.
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1890: Of 16,000 prostitutes interviewed by Rev....

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1890

Of 16,000 prostitutes interviewed by Rev. G. Merrick , only 659 reported that seduction by gentlemen had led to their downfall.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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March 1871: The first issue of the Oxford University...

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March 1871

The first issue of the Oxford University literary periodical entitled The Dark Blue was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1908: The Central Committee for Women's Church...

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1908

The Central Committee for Women's Church Work was established as a result of the Pan-Anglican Congress, where the need for ongoing representation of women's ministries had been made evident by deaconesses and their supporters.
Prelinger, Catherine M. “The Female Diaconate in the Anglican Church: What Kind of Ministry for Women?”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana UP, 1986, pp. 161-92.
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Grierson, Janet. The Deaconess. CIO Publishing, 1981.
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1953: Mary Raleigh Richardson published her autobiography,...

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1953

Mary Raleigh Richardson published her autobiography, Laugh a Defiance, which relates her experiences as a suffragist.
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 October 1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France...

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28 October 1886

The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the American people, was installed overlooking New York harbour.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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By November 1750: Robert Dodsley issued his successful work...

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By November 1750

Robert Dodsley issued his successful work of homespun philosophy, The Oeconomy of Human Life, whose title-page announced it as translated from an Indian manuscript.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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April 1956: Nikita Khrushchev made another important...

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April 1956

Nikita Khrushchev made another important speech reflecting a change in Soviet opinion about the legacy of Joseph Stalin .
Anderson, Perry. “The Age of EJH”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 3-7.
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30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...

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30 September 1950

The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Jane Williams

JW 's eight books and several periodical publications appeared from the pre-Victorian to the mid-Victorian period in a number of genres, including poetry, literary criticism (of women writers in particular), and an account of her...

8 October 1755: The expulsion began of about 14,000 French...

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8 October 1755

The expulsion began of about 14,000 French settlers from Acadia, an area covering what is now part of the Canadian Maritime provinces and also some of New England.

5 July 1839: Lady Flora Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to...

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5 July 1839

Lady Flora Hastings , a lady-in-waiting to the mother of the young and inexperienced Queen Victoria , died, probably of liver cancer, at Buckingham Palace after being publicly suspected of illicit pregnancy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.