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September 1714: There was published A Collection of Queen...

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September 1714

There was published A Collection of Queen Anne 's Speeches, Messages . . . from her Accession to the Throne to her Demise.
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29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...

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29 May 1970

The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
164, 176-9
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
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31 January 1893: The Westminster Gazette was launched in London....

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31 January 1893

The Westminster Gazette was launched in London. With various small changes of title it ran until 1930. It was then re-named the News Chronicle, and ran until 1955.
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1600: The Apothecaries' Guild began to give advice,...

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1600

The Apothecaries' Guild began to give advice, prescription and diagnosis, rather than just compounding medication.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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July 1921: The Musicians' Union was founded in London...

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July 1921

The Musicians' Union was founded in London after the Amalgamated Musicians' Union and the London Orchestral Union of Professional Musicians consolidated.
“History: 1921”. The Musician’s Union.

Elizabeth Delaval

ED is remembered for her manuscript book about her own early life, drafted in 1663-72, during her teens and early twenties (sometimes called either a diary or a commonplace-book). Its obvious motive was religious self-examination...

By July 1749: Charles de Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des...

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By July 1749

Charles de Montesquieu 's De l'Esprit des loix (in English On the Spirit of Laws: a key Enlightenment text) was published in London.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
1 (1749): 229
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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December 1835: Remnants of the National Union of the Working...

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December 1835

Remnants of the National Union of the Working Classes merged with Marylebone Radical Association .
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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1741, 1743: A private edition of ten copies (only) was...

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1741, 1743

A private edition of ten copies (only) was published of Athenian Letters or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war, written by Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke)

15 November 1942: Church bells (which quite recently had stood...

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15 November 1942

Church bells (which quite recently had stood ready to signal invasion) were rung all over Britain, in the wake of the battle of El Alamein, to celebrate the defeat of Rommel .
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
139

1968: 19, a monthly fashion magazine for teenagers,...

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1968

19, a monthly fashion magazine for teenagers, began publication from Stamford Street, London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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28 March 1762: Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the...

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28 March 1762

Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the LondonLock Hospital (for sexually transmitted disease) the Rev. Martin Madan pointed the finger at men who knowingly infect children.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
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1959: Microwave cooking was introduced in the ...

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1959

Microwave cooking was introduced in the UK.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
173

July 1913: Lily Boulanger, a French composer, made headline...

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July 1913

Lily Boulanger , a French composer, made headline news when she became the first woman awarded the Prix de Rome, for her cantata Faust et Hélène.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
xxvii, 77

1540: Robert Jonas translated and published The...

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1540

Robert Jonas translated and published The Birth of Mankind, the earliest in a long line of popular books in English about human reproduction.
Hobby, Elaine. “’Some Things more Material to be Known’: Reading Some Books for the Recovery Project”. Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Salzman, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 12-32.
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20 August 1968: An uprising in Prague (sometimes later referred...

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20 August 1968

An uprising in Prague (sometimes later referred to as the Prague Spring) was suppressed by the military power of the USSR, whose tanks crossed the border on this day.
“Europe Remembering the Prague Spring”. BBC News, 21 Aug. 1998.

1675: For the second time slaves brought from Fort...

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1675

For the second time slaves brought from Fort Cormantine in the Gold Coast to a British colony (this time Barbados) planned a serious slave revolt.
Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.
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13 June 1985: Conrad Black, on his way to becoming the...

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13 June 1985

Conrad Black , on his way to becoming the third Canadian press baron to dominate British newspapers, acquired for £10 million a minority stake in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, with the proviso of...

11 September 1648: In a petition to Parliament, a group of Englishwomen...

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11 September 1648

In a petition to Parliament , a group of Englishwomen claimed a proportionable share in the Freedoms of this commonwealth with men.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
507

22 July 1919: Manuel de Falla's ballet set in eighteenth-century...

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22 July 1919

Manuel de Falla 's ballet set in eighteenth-century Spain, The Three Cornered Hat, with sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso , premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in London, performed by the Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Boeck, Wilhelm, and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. Thames and Hudson, 1955.
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1901: The first wireless telegraphy between ships...

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1901

The first wireless telegraphy between ships took place between the British ship Lake Champlain and the Cunard liner Lucania.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1909: Edith Durham published High Albania: A Victorian...

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1909

Edith Durham published High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey, one of her several accounts of the seven years she spent in regular excursions to the mountains of northern Albania, where she...

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

Amber Reeves

AR , who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world)...

July1905: Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens,...

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July1905

Household Words, founded by Charles Dickens , ceased publication with volume 49 of its continuation dating from 13 April 1881. In its current form it was once more a monthly (after a period as a weekly).
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