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24 October 1929: On this day, which became known as Black...

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24 October 1929

On this day, which became known as Black Thursday, the nervous selling began which caused a catastrophic drop of values on Wall Street, and the stock market crash (also dated from the 29th) which...

11 June 1895: The UK annexed Tongaland....

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11 June 1895

The UK annexed Tongaland.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 589
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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25 February 1601: The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower...

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25 February 1601

The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower of London on the orders of Queen Elizabeth ; she was said to be much upset, but was deaf to all appeals for clemency.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
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November 1959: The Crowther Committee on Education (set...

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November 1959

The Crowther Committee on Education (set up in 1956) reported on the educational needs of children from fifteen to eighteen, including the particular unmet needs of girls.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
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July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

1716: There were estimated to be 60,000 debtors...

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1716

There were estimated to be 60,000 debtors imprisoned in England and Wales.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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January 1963: Kim Philby, perhaps the cleverest of the...

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January 1963

Kim Philby , perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...

1860: Maria Rye and Isa Craig established the Telegraph...

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1860

Maria Rye and Isa Craig established the Telegraph School for Women , to train women for work in telegraph offices where messages handed in and sent.
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
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1892: Sixty-seven year-old phrenologist Henry Loader...

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1892

Sixty-seven year-old phrenologist Henry Loader was prosecuted for selling two birth control manuals, The Wife's Handbook and Fruits of Philosophy.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
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5 July 1775: The American Continental Congress adopted...

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5 July 1775

The American Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition, reiterating the colonists' grievances but professing their attachment to George III .
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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17 August 1896: In the world's first fatal accident involving...

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17 August 1896

In the world's first fatal accident involving a motor vehicle, Bridget Driscoll was struck by a car giving demonstration rides outside the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, south of London.
“The CARnage continues”. The CCPA Monitor. Economic, Social, and Environmental Perspectives, Vol.
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, No. 5, Oct. 2011, p. 3.

January 1870: The Rights of Woman, a comedy by Emma Schiff,...

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January 1870

The Rights of Woman, a comedy by Emma Schiff , premiered at the Globe Theatre .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Carlson, Susan. “Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy: Women’s comic playwrighting in the 1890s”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 256-76.
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1855: The Metropolis Local Management Act was ...

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1855

The Metropolis Local Management Act was passed.
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.
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Kearns, Gerry. “Cholera, Nuisances and Environmental Management in Islington 1830-1855”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 94-125.
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Daunton, Martin. “Health and Housing in Victorian London”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 126-44.
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Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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From about 1817: The Australian Aborigines were subjected...

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From about 1817

The Australian Aborigines were subjected to brutal and rapid near-extermination.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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December 1895: Elizabeth S. Hooper edited the first issue...

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December 1895

Elizabeth S. Hooper edited the first issue of Sisters, a monthly magazine devoted to women of every class, clime and creed.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
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1759: Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame...

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1759

Jedediah Strutt invented a machine frame which revolutionised the manufacture of cotton goods.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1937: In India the Congress Party, which favoured...

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1937

In India the Congress Party , which favoured independence from Britain and was largely backed by Hindus, swept to power in elections, even in some Muslim-majority areas.
Ali, Tariq. “Bitter Chill of Winter”. London Review of Books, 19 Apr. 2001, pp. 18-27.
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12 May 1919: The Canadian National Conference of Women...

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12 May 1919

The Canadian National Conference of Women met at Ottawa to discuss the immigration of women.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 504

1875: Charles Reade dedicated his novel The Wandering...

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1875

Charles Reade dedicated his novel The Wandering Heir to Mary Elizabeth Braddonas a slight mark of respect for her private virtues and public talents.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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1403: The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London...

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1403

The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London approved the formation of a fraternity or Guild of Stationers . Printers became dominant in the organization by the time it became the Stationers' Company and...

1590: Christopher Hooke published a sermon in which...

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1590

Christopher Hooke published a sermon in which he admonished women in pregnancy that only God's mercy could enable them to produce children that were not monsters.
Clark, Emma. “Metaphors of Motherhood: claiming back the female body in the poems of Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2001, pp. 263-73.
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Ethel Savi

ES published over ninety novels during the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of them about India, as well as a collection of short stories and a memoir of life under the...

11 July 1637: The Bodleian Library's right to one copy...

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11 July 1637

The Bodleian Library 's right to one copy of each new book published in Britain was re-established by order of Archbishop Laud , who happened at the time to be Chancellor of Oxford University .
Whitaker, David. “Heresy!”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2001–28 Feb. 2002, pp. 160-1.
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1938: Richard Titmuss (not yet a professional sociologist...

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1938

Richard Titmuss (not yet a professional sociologist or writer) argued in Poverty and Population that poverty was causing about 50,000 preventable deaths in Britain every year.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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Titmuss later became the father of Ann Oakley .

February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...

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February 1916

Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.
Laity, Paul. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 40-1.
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