Explore Orlando

Here, you’ll find randomized material from across the textbase’s author profiles and timelines. To jump to the content of your choice, click on its image card.

30 July 1869: The Roman Catholic Community of Reparation...

Building and people item

30 July 1869

The Roman Catholic Community of Reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament (Mission Sisters of St Alphege) was founded in Southwark.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
429

1858: Arthur Russell Mowbray set up a bookshop...

Writer or writing item

1858

Arthur Russell Mowbray set up a bookshop at 2 Cornmarket Street, Oxford.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 209

18 November 1910: A Women's Social and Political Union deputation...

Building and people item

18 November 1910

A Women's Social and Political Union deputation protesting against Government inaction on the Conciliation Bill was attacked by police at the House of Commons and 119 were arrested; the day became known as Black Friday...

6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...

National or international item

6 June 1654

Queen Christina abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
Marks, Tracy. Queen Christina of Sweden. 13 Feb. 2003, http://www.windweaver.com/christina/christina.htm.

21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...

National or international item

21 June 1969

Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.

1892: Lady Lindsay(Caroline), issued A Tangled...

Women writers item

1892

Lady Lindsay(Caroline) , issued A Tangled Web, a novel of an heiress who sets out to see the world but falls in love with her cousin.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1765: Almack's Club was founded: one of a number...

Building and people item

1765

Almack's Club was founded: one of a number of clubs dating from this decade which, for the first time, admitted women members.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
262n56

By 1834: Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used...

Building and people item

By 1834

Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used as a material for filling teeth.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
301

1877: The Dublin Science and Art Museum Act established...

Building and people item

1877

The Dublin Science and Art Museum Act established the National Library of Ireland .
“History of the Library”. National Library of Ireland.

January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...

National or international item

January 1792

A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson , brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii

1869: T. H. Huxley coined the word agnostic....

Building and people item

1869

T. H. Huxley coined the word agnostic.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
126

25 August 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to...

National or international item

25 August 1932

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the United States in a non-stop flight.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
492
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
220

By 18 July 1846: Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin...

Writer or writing item

By 18 July 1846

Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin Robert Haydon (who had killed himself in June this year) appeared in print. It put forward influential new theories of art education, state patronage, and industrial design.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
977 (1846): 737

1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

Writer or writing item

1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
58

13 January 1917: Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon...

National or international item

13 January 1917

Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon was arrested on the testimony of intelligence agents posing as conscientious objectors, along with her two daughters and a genuine conscientious objector they were harbouring.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Wheeldon

Antonia White

AW found composition a torment, suffered from recurrent writer's block, and discarded innumerable drafts of everything she wrote. Yet besides working as a journalist, she left more than thirty translations, four heavily autobiographical novels, some...

1891: The Birmingham Daily Gazette became the first...

Writer or writing item

1891

The Birmingham Daily Gazette became the first British newspaper produced on a rotary press driven by electric power.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163

November 1739: The anonymous, probably female Sophia published...

Women writers item

November 1739

The anonymous, probably female Sophia published a pamphlet entitled Woman not Inferior to Man.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
9 (1739): 608

February 1909: In a publicity stunt for the suffrage cause...

Building and people item

February 1909

In a publicity stunt for the suffrage cause Muriel Matters flew over London distributing Votes for Women pamphlets from an aeroplane.
Purvis, June. Email to Women’s Studies Group. 24 Oct. 2014.

August 1651: Christopher Love, a clergyman, was executed...

National or international item

August 1651

Christopher Love , a clergyman, was executed by order of Parliament for disobeying its dictates, in spite of the campaign of petitions organized by his wife, Mary .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

8-12 May 1543: An Act for the advancement of true religion...

National or international item

8-12 May 1543

An Act for the advancement of true religion and for the abolishment of the contrarie (i.e. to establish religious censorship) was rushed through Parliament.
Lehmberg, Stanford E. The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII: 1536-1547. Cambridge University Press, 1977.
186-9
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
46
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
20-1

1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...

Women writers item

1897

With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby , shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
Smith, Sean, archivist. “Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Lady Welby, Oct. 16, 1907”. York University: York University Gazette online: From the archives, 26 Jan. 2000.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
4

1045: Saint Margaret, who became the wife of King...

National or international item

1045

Saint Margaret , who became the wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland, was born.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
83-4
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
53, 56

15 March 1916: An amendment to Japan's nationality law allowed...

National or international item

15 March 1916

An amendment to Japan's nationality law allowed for the expatriation of Japanese born abroad; Japanese women marrying aliens were to lose their citizenship.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 863

1838: The first temperance hall was built in Bradford,...

Building and people item

1838

The first temperance hall was built in Bradford, where the first temperance organization had arisen earlier in the decade.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
159-61