Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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27 August 2001: British officials stationed at Prague airport...
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27 August 2001
British officials stationed at Prague airport resumed immigration checks which were said to prevent abuse of Britain's asylum system, but were criticized for targeting the Gipsy, or Roma, population.
“UK Reimposes Czech Asylum Controls”. BBC News, 27 Aug. 2001.
“Seven Arrests Over Burnt Gypsy Effigy”. BBC News, 12 Nov. 2003.
“Accommodation for Travellers and Gypsies is key to solving local tensions”. Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 29 Jan. 2004.
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Anne Evans: Biography
AE
was a witty poet and skilled composer of dance songs in the mid to late nineteenth century; she also wrote letters and epigrams. She is known for one posthumously published collection of verses and...
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Thomas Hardy
TH
was a poet by vocation and became a novelist by profession. The Wessex of his novels has made him arguably a regional novelist. As well as a prolific output in both these forms, he...
1934: New Zealand pilot Jean Batten flew a Gypsy...
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1934
New Zealand pilot Jean Batten
flew a Gypsy Moth from England to Australia. She beat British pilot Amy Johnson
's 1930 record by five days, and became the fist woman to complete the return trip.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
477
By June 1827: Edward Stanley, late of the Royal Artillery,...
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By June 1827
Edward Stanley
, late of the Royal Artillery
, published The Young Horsewoman's Compendium of the Modern Art of Riding.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
36 (1827): 301, 603
17 April 1969: The Representation of the People Act (1969)...
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17 April 1969
The Representation of the People Act (1969) extended the vote in Britain to people aged eighteen and over.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1969): 89
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
Collette, Christine. For Labour and For Women: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918. Manchester University Press, 1989.
139
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
278
1872: By this date the flushing water-closet had...
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1872
By this date the flushing water-closet had become a regular feature in London houses; not surprisingly, the London rivers became increasingly polluted and responsible for several cholera epidemics.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
82-3
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
221
November 1906: The Women's Suffrage Record, edited by Edith...
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November 1906
The Women's Suffrage Record, edited by Edith Palliser
, ceased publication in London.
1916: The Women Messengers, a group of women who...
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1916
The Women Messengers
, a group of women who spoke in churches, was formed in the diocese of Oxford.
Wilkinson, Alan. The Church of England and the First World War. SPCK, 1978.
92
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
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1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210-11
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 81
Salzman, Paul. “How Alexander Dyce Assembled Specimens of British Poetesses: A Key Moment in the Transmission of Early Modern Women’s Writing”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 88-105.
88-9, 91, 95-6, 97, 98, 101
December 1938: The report of the Athlone Committee (established...
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December 1938
The report of the Athlone Committee
(established in November 1937 as the Inter-Departmental Committee on Nursing Service chaired by Lord Athlone
) recommended a national salary standard for nurses and the establishment of nurses' councils...
May 1795: The United Irish Society was reorganised...
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May 1795
The United Irish Society
was reorganised with the aim of rebellion against England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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1 January 1863: Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,...
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1 January 1863
Abraham Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclamation, by which all those people still enslaved in the rebel states of the USA gained their freedom.
July 1981: Race violence erupted in several British...
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July 1981
Race violence erupted in several British cities: at Toxteth in Liverpool, in Manchester, and at Southall in London.
“Race riots”. The Independent on Sunday, 1 July 2001, p. 9.
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1870: Western Australia was granted responsible...
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1870
Western Australia was granted responsible and representative government.
Colebatch, Sir Hal, editor. A Story of A Hundred Years: Western Australia 1829-1929. F. W. Simpson, Government Printer, 1929.
94-5
Crowley, Francis Keble. Australia’s Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the first settlements to modern times. St Martin’s, 1960.
69
Stannage, Tom. A New History of Western Australia. University of Western Australia Press, 1981.
297, 324-5, 327-8
1984: The publishing company Saqi Books was founded...
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1984
The publishing company Saqi Books
was founded in London by André Gaspard
and Mai Ghoussoub
(sculptor and writer) to bridge the divide between Middle Eastern and Western cultures. It publishes a highly international list.
“About Us”. Saqi Books.
“About Us”. Alsaqi Bookshop.
al-Shaykh, Hanan. “The week in books”. The Guardian, 24 May 2008, p. Review 5.
