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September 1607: Hugh O'Neill's rebellion in Ireland came...

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September 1607

Hugh O'Neill 's rebellion in Ireland came to a final end with the Flight of the Earls: this was the last stand of Gaelic Ireland against the colonising English.
Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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14 July 1742: Horace Walpole was diverted by the great...

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14 July 1742

Horace Walpole was diverted by the great physical strength of a servant-maid helping to rescue goods in danger of burning in a house fire; he thought it particularly comic that she had the pastoral name...

31 March 1854: When police arrived to evict four hundred...

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31 March 1854

When police arrived to evict four hundred tenants near Bonar Bridge in Scotland, resistance was led by women.
Grigor, Iain Fraser. Mightier than a Lord. Acair, 1979.
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1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...

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1880s

Many local Women's Liberal Association s formed.
Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91.
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Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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1795: Dr John Anderson, Director of the General...

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1795

Dr John Anderson , Director of the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary at Margate, published two pamphlets designed to boost the practice, which the Critical Review said had much increased during recent years.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 18 (1796): 74-8, 353-5
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.

1 April 1819: The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began...

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1 April 1819

The Peace Society (founded in 1816) began publishing a periodical, The Herald of Peace.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
23 and n1, 31, 35n5

1905: Englishman Walter Haggar produced the film...

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1905

Englishman Walter Haggar produced the film The Life of Charles Peace, a horror-drama which was shown at fairground theatres.
Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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1810-19: Fiction-writing during this decade was dominated...

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1810-19

Fiction-writing during this decade was dominated by women, even more than during the previous decade.
Belanger, Jacqueline. “Some Preliminary Remarks on the Production and Reception of Fiction Relating to Ireland, 1800-1829”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
4
, May 2000.

February 1925: The first impression of Beatrice Kean Seymour's...

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February 1925

The first impression of Beatrice Kean Seymour 's novel The Romantic Tradition was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

After 1 February 1793: An organisation calling itself the Friends...

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After 1 February 1793

An organisation calling itself the Friends of Peace began campaigning in tracts and pamphlets against the war with France (declared on this day).
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
23-4, 37

1897-1910: Havelock Ellis published Studies in the Psychology...

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1897-1910

Havelock Ellis published Studies in the Psychology of Sex, in 6 volumes. Volume one, Sexual Inversion, had appeared in German a year before its appearance in English.
Brome, Vincent. Havelock Ellis, Philosopher of Sex: A Biography. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
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Bullough, Vern L. Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research. Basic Books, 1994.
81-2, 84-5, 314
Robinson, Paul. The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Harper and Row, 1976.
4-5, 11
Allen, Renée. “Henry Havelock Ellis, 1859-1939”. Brown University; University of Tulsa: The Modern Journalists Project: The New Age: Biographies.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

AMKR 's characteristic style is one of finely tooled alliteration. She meant this style to be taken seriously, but it has led to her being anthologised frequently in books of bad writing. Active at the...

1970: The word herstory was used in Robin Morgan's...

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1970

The word herstory was used in Robin Morgan 's Sisterhood is Powerful: the earliest instance recorded by the OED.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

1789: Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the...

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1789

Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the Plants, as the second part of his scientific poem The Botanic Garden.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...

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March 1748

The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were published by subscription.
Reid, Hugh. “’Those beck’ning ghost(s)’: The Subscribers to Thomas Warton’s Poems(1748)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
25
, Sept.–Dec. 1999, pp. 277-94.
277-8, 283-4

5 July 1996: Scientists at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh...

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5 July 1996

Scientists at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh first cloned a lamb, and named the lamb Dolly after the large-breasted country singer Dolly Parton .
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, p. 20.
22 (24 August 2000): 20

27 July 1794: The guillotining of Robespierre signalled...

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27 July 1794

The guillotining of Robespierre signalled an end to the Terror in France.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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1941: Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day...

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1941

Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day fine to be levied on anyone refusing to comply with a government work-order; severe fines and prison terms were imposed on conscientious objectors and pacifists.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1807: The first passenger railway in the UK was...

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1807

The first passenger railway in the UK was established: in Wales between Swansea and Oystermouth.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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January 1938: Peggy Guggenheim opened a gallery called...

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January 1938

Peggy Guggenheim opened a gallery called Guggenheim Jeune in Cork Street, London, which did much to promote an English taste for avant-garde Continental art.
Penny, Nicholas. “At the Palazzo Venier”. London Review of Books, 9 May 2002, pp. 12-13.
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Later 1723: Bernard Mandeville's attack on charity schools,...

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Later 1723

Bernard Mandeville 's attack on charity schools, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, was published in the second edition of his Fable of the Bees.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Irwin Primer, Capricorn Books, 1962.
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Mandeville, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees. 2nd ed., Edmund Parker, 1723.
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7-50.
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August 1980: The Red Rag, produced by a Marxist collective...

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August 1980

The Red Rag, produced by a Marxist collective of the Women's Liberation Movement in London, ended publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

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March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1917: John Lane published The Candid Courtship,...

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1917

John Lane published The Candid Courtship, a feminist novel by Madge Mears .
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.

1895: The London Booksellers' Society was succeeded...

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1895

The London Booksellers' Society was succeeded by the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland , which supported Frederick Macmillan 's proposal for the net pricing of books.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Feltes, Norman N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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