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1681: Joseph Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus:...

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1681

Joseph Glanvill 's Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions was posthumously published: it contains many stories of women and men persecuted as witches, many sentenced to death.
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.

: London omnibuses carried an advertisement...

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Summer 1887

London omnibuses carried an advertisement featuring Society beauty Georgina Weldon , captioned, I am 50 today, but thanks to Pears Soap my complexion is only 17.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Don’t lock up the wife”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2000, pp. 30-1.
30-1

11 January 1943: A British treaty with China renounced the...

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11 January 1943

A British treaty with China renounced the UK's extra-territorial rights and special privileges there.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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1922: Edmund Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize...

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1922

Edmund Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize with his poem The Shepherd (published this year in The Shepherd, and other poems of peace and war.
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.

Florence Marryat

FM , who published about eighty books during the later nineteenth century, was primarily a novelist (known for fiction that plays about the borders of the supernatural, in spiritualist and vampire novels) and also a...
Florence Marryat Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Florence Marryat. She is wearing a dark velvet dress with a square lace collar. Her hair is worn in a bun; earrings dangle from her ears, and a necklace is tied tightly around her neck with a black ribbon. She holds a fan against her chest. Her name appears below in capitals in the form "Miss Florence Marryatt".

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

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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

1859: American physician William Stout Chipley...

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1859

American physician William Stout Chipley offered the first description of sitomania, a phase of insanity characterized by an intense dread of food
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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; the symptoms resembled what was later called anorexia nervosa.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Hof, Sonja van ’t. Anorexia Nervosa: The Historical and Cultural Specificity: Fallacious Theories and Tenacious "Facts". Swets and Zeitlinger, 1994.
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1 December 1919: Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist...

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1 December 1919

Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist Party ), became the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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Jack, Ian. “The Best Stuff”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 33-7.
33-4

12 June 1724: Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that...

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12 June 1724

Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that the English Court had almost universally taken to wearing French fashions.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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25 April 1694: The Bank of England was established, against...

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25 April 1694

The Bank of England was established, against violent parliamentary opposition, with the primary object of lending money to the nation rather than to individuals: this was the beginning of the National Debt.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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April 1883: The Church of England Purity Society was...

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April 1883

The Church of England Purity Society was founded at Lambeth Palace in London; its first president was Archbishop Benson .
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1874: Artist James McNeill Whistler mounted his...

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1874

Artist James McNeill Whistler mounted his first solo exhibition.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
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23 May 1807: Novelist Samuel Warren was born at The Rackery,...

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23 May 1807

Novelist Samuel Warren was born at The Rackery, in Wrexham, Wales.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Harriet Smythies

HS launched a forty-five-year career in 1835 with a romantic, historical, narrative poem. Her later poems, all of substantial length, deal with contemporary public events. She set her name to these (after the first) but...

1943: Lady Eve Balfour, an early proponent of organic...

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1943

Lady Eve Balfour , an early proponent of organic farming (an earl's daughter whose dazzling family connections made her a descendant of the writer Rosina Bulwer Lytton and niece of the suffragists Frances Balfour and...

1915: The International Association of Women Police...

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1915

The International Association of Women Police was founded under the leadership of Alice Stebbings-Wells , a matron of the Los Angeles police force.
Carrier, John. The Campaign for the Employment of Women as Police Officers. Avebury; Gower, 1988.
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By 31 May 1862: George Meredith published Modern Love and...

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By 31 May 1862

George Meredith published Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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December 1765: In the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate,...

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December 1765

In the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, London, a parish council meeting heard several Disputes whether women householders who paid the poor rate had a Right to Vote for Parish Officers.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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1987: The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce's drawing...

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1987

The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce 's drawing entitled Missionary Position II. Boyce was the first black female artist to enter the collection and, she later discovered to her shock, only the fifth woman.
Higgins, Charlotte. “’The vitriol was really unhealthy’: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs”. theguardian.com, 19 Mar. 2018.

E. A. Dillwyn

EAD published six novels between 1880 and 1892: these novels combine murders and melodrama with serious treatment of the need for social reform and of the intelligent woman's search for a meaningful place in society...

1867: The National Society for Obtaining Political...

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1867

The National Society for Obtaining Political Rights for Women was established in London.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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June 1815: Scottish artisans and textile workers demonstrating...

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June 1815

Scottish artisans and textile workers demonstrating against exploitation rallied at the site of the battle of Drumclog (near Kilmarnock in Western Scotland), a Covenanter victory of 1679.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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31 July 1868: The Poisons and Pharmacy Act was passed;...

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31 July 1868

The Poisons and Pharmacy Act was passed; it restricted the sale of poisonous compounds to registered pharmacists.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

By 1700: There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses...

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By 1700

There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses (all-male social and sometimes political, intellectual or literary) establishments in London.
Carter, Philip J. “Men about town: representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 31-57.
44 n. 20
Shapin, Steven. “At the Amsterdam”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 12-14.
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15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...

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15 June 2007

Tatiana de Rosnay , born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novel Sarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies...