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February 1912: The Enterprise Club Magazine, a magazine...

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February 1912

The Enterprise Club Magazine, a magazine for women clerks, began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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14 June 1927: Oxford University passed a statute limiting...

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14 June 1927

Oxford University passed a statute limiting the numbers of women in residence to eight hundred and forty.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
356, 258
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
171-2, 236

15 September 1830: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the...

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15 September 1830

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first large-scale passenger steam railway, was officially opened; public timetabled service began on 17 September.
Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831. Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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2 January 1492: At the battle of Granada in Spain (actually...

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2 January 1492

At the battle of Granada in Spain (actually the climax of a three-week siege) Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain defeated the Moors. They expelled the Jews the same year.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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About 1540: Robert Crowley published two conduct manuals:...

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About 1540

Robert Crowley published two conduct manuals: Of Nice Wyves and The Woman' s Lesson.
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.

Ling Shuhua

A writer and visual artist active primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, LS published short stories, essays, translations, and a memoir whose reception was shaped by frequently restrictive expectations for women writers of her time...
Ling Shuhua Somewhat blurry black and white photograph of Shuhua Ling, leaning back in a chair, holding an open book with large pages. Her hair is straight, jaw-length, and brushed back; she is wearing a pleated dress with a high neck.

6 June 1961: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, died in Z...

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6 June 1961

Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist, died in Zurich.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By January 1754: Richard Glover's Short History of Boadicea,...

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By January 1754

Richard Glover 's Short History of Boadicea, the British Queen, was published (staged at Drury Lane late the previous year).
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, working under Anthony...

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1967

Jocelyn Bell Burnell , working under Anthony Hewish , discovered the first pulsar, for which Hewish won the Nobel Prize seven years later.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

August-21 December 1791: In Paris the Salon of 1791, the first non-monarchical...

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August-21 December 1791

In Paris the Salon of 1791, the first non-monarchical display of art to a new public, featured a large increase in works by women.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, Dec. 1997, pp. 153-74.
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1977: Saint Lucia became independent from Brit...

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1977

Saint Lucia became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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1866: Engineer Robert Whitehead invented the t...

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1866

Engineer Robert Whitehead invented the torpedo.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Late 1870s: To shape their bodies into the desired hourglass...

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Late 1870s

To shape their bodies into the desired hourglass ideal, fashionable women of the middle and upper classes increasingly turned to corsets which made breathing, walking, and sitting difficult.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
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Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
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Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette

MML , writing in France in the late seventeenth century, originated there the new form of the novel: shorter, less diffuse, more vigorous in its emotional effect than the long, many-storied, courtly romances. She was...
Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette Black and white, head-and-shoulders image of a lost painting of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette by Louis Ferdinand Elle l'Aîné. She sits with her head resting on one hand, wearing a gown with a V neck and puffed sleeves, without jewellery. Her dark hair is pulled back into a pearl-wrapped bun, with a ringlet lying on her shoulder.

1852: The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased,...

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1852

The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased, and converted to provide 700-800 places for women sentenced to penal servitude.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...

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1775

The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas Gray 's sonnet on the death of Richard West caused a literary sensation; it laid the foundation for Charlotte Smith 's Elegiac Sonnets, 1784, and the revival of the sonnet form.
Curran, Stuart. “Reading with Both Hands: The Dialog of Novelist and Poet”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 27 Mar. 2004.

31 October 1944: The Women's Press Club held its first annual...

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31 October 1944

The Women's Press Club held its first annual general meeting, with Lady Rhondda as president.
“Records of the Women’s Press Club”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.

1992: The Higher and Further Education Act linked...

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1992

The Higher and Further Education Act linked state funding for universities and colleges to student numbers; institutions were impelled into a race for expansion.
Ainley, Patrick. Degrees of Difference: Higher Education in the 1990s. Laurence and Wishart, 1994.
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By July 1794: Thomas Paine published another bombshell...

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By July 1794

Thomas Paine published another bombshell for the British establishment: The Age of Reason, which set out to demolish the grounds of traditional orthodox religion.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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1824: Parliament legally defined the measurement...

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1824

Parliament legally defined the measurement of a yard (equal to three feet) on the basis of the length of a pendulum with a period of one second, placed at Greenwich.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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September 1905: George MacDonald, novelist, died in Ashtead,...

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September 1905

George MacDonald , novelist, died in Ashtead, Surrey.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...

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1560

The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary : the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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June 1924: The National Union of Societies for Equal...

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June 1924

The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship argued that birth control information should be given out at government clinics.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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6 March 1957: The Gold Coast became the first British colony...

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6 March 1957

The Gold Coast became the first British colony to achieve independent statehood, under the name of Ghana.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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20 August 1853: The Vaccination Act made vaccination against...

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20 August 1853

The Vaccination Act made vaccination against smallpox compulsory for everyone in the United Kingdom, and provided for administering it gratis under the Poor Law.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death. The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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