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Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...

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Early 1840

At the time of Queen Victoria 's marriage to Prince Albert , the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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7 May 1943: Bizerte and Tunis surrendered, marking the...

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7 May 1943

Bizerte and Tunis surrendered, marking the Allied victory in Northern Africa.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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1886: Henry Maudsley published Natural Causes and...

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1886

Henry Maudsley published Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1860: After this date, stirrups became widely used...

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1860

After this date, stirrups became widely used by gynaecologists for physical examinations.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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1729: Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus),...

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1729

Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus) , twenty-two this year, published his early Praeludia Sponsaliarum Plantarum, which already sexualises and anthropomorphises plant reproduction.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1-22 July 1944: The Bretton Woods Conference laid the basis...

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1-22 July 1944

The Bretton Woods Conference laid the basis for the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund .
Dear, Ian C. B., and Michael Richard Daniell Foot, editors. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.
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Ethel Smyth

All of ES 's writings are richly autobiographical. They provide an acute and open account of her experience as a woman entering a strictly delimited male field (in her case that of composing large-scale musical...
Ethel Smyth Black and white photograph of Ethel Smyth, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a tweed suit jacket with a white shirt underneath and a tie. Her dark is pulled into a bun on the top of her head.

28 February 1860: Nathaniel Hawthorne published Transformation:...

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28 February 1860

Nathaniel Hawthorne published Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni in three volumes.
Clark, C. E. Frazer. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
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13 November 1887: Police broke up a meeting of the Social Democratic...

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13 November 1887

Police broke up a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation (militant radicals, many of them Irish) held in Trafalgar Square, London; the day became known as Bloody Sunday.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Davenport-Hines, Richard. “Horrid Mutilation! Read all about it!”. London Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2002, pp. 37-9.
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Lucas, John, b. 1937. “Republican versus Victorian: Radical Writing in the Later Years of the Nineteenth Century”. Rethinking Victorian Culture, edited by Juliet John and Alice Jenkins, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 29-45.
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1899: American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland...

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1899

American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia; or, The Gospel of the Witches, which later had a considerable impact on the formation of Neopagan religious movements, including Wicca and Stregheria.
Leland, Charles Godfrey. Aradia; or, The Gospel of the Witches. David Nutt, 1899.
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Magliocco, Sabina. “Book Review: The New Edition of Leland’s Aradia”. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 1999.
Magliocco, Sabina. “Who Was Aradia? The History and Development of a Legend”. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Feb. 2002.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robbins. Charles Godfrey Leland: A Biography. Houghton, Mifflin, 1906.
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Russell, Jeffrey B. A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans. Thames and Hudson, 1980.
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21 January 1941-26 August 1942: The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British...

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21 January 1941-26 August 1942

The Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party , was suppressed under Defence Regulations.
Rust, William. Daily Worker Reborn. Daily Worker, 1943.
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Rust, William. Lift the Ban on the Daily Worker. Daily Worker League, 1942.
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June 1853: William Makepeace Thackeray published The...

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June 1853

William Makepeace Thackeray published The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from a series of critical lectures given in England, Scotland, and the United States.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1846: Richard M. Hoe, an American, patented the...

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1846

Richard M. Hoe , an American, patented the first successful rotary press, in which type and paper revolve together continuously on separate cylinders.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
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Louisa Anne Meredith

LAM began publishing in England during the 1830s. Motivated by a strong love of nature and later inspired by her surroundings in Tasmania (where she arrived in 1840), she produced a total of twenty-one books...
Louisa Anne Meredith Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Louisa Anne Meredith. She wears a dress with puffed sleeves and a ruffled collar, all in a dark colour, and her hair falls down in dark ringlets.

August 1973: The National Women's Hall of Fame was inaugurated...

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August 1973

The National Women's Hall of Fame was inaugurated at Seneca Falls, New York, USA, site of the women's rights convention of 19 July 1848.
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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13 April 1790: The French National Assembly, in Paris, rejected...

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13 April 1790

The French National Assembly , in Paris, rejected Catholicism as the national religion.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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20 May 1867: John Stuart Mill moved to amend the Representation...

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20 May 1867

John Stuart Mill moved to amend the Representation of the People Bill to replace the word man with person.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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1856: The Cunard Company's iron steamship the Persia...

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1856

The Cunard Company 's iron steamship the Persia crossed the Atlantic at an average speed of 13.49 knots, establishing itself as the fastest vessel in the world.
Roche, Thomas William Edgar. Samuel Cunard and the North Atlantic. MacDonald, 1971.
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14 July 1698: The ships of the Company of Scotland, projectors...

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14 July 1698

The ships of the Company of Scotland , projectors of the Darien Scheme, sailed out of Leith heading for Darien on the Panama isthmus, intending to found a profitable colony.
Ascherson, Neal. “Cape of Mad Hope”. London Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2008, pp. 24-6.
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8 October 1902: Sunderland Co-operative Society opened the...

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8 October 1902

Sunderland Co-operative Society opened the People's Store and Settlement on Coronation Street, Sunderland.
Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Rendall, Jane, editor. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics, 1800-1914. Basil Blackwell, 1987.
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Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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In her history of the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG), Catherine Webb gives this as the founding...

2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...

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2 January 1711

Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1714: British female literacy rates at this date...

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1714

British female literacy rates at this date have been estimated as 25%, against a male rate of 45%.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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By 26 July 1862: Arthur Hugh Clough's Poems, 1862 were published...

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By 26 July 1862

Arthur Hugh Clough 's Poems, 1862 were published posthumously.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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1972: The Octagon Theatre in Bolton put on a home-created...

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1972

The Octagon Theatre in Bolton put on a home-created play, Sweetie Pie, about the four demands of the Oxford Women's Liberation Conference of 1970.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991.
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