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7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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9 August 1899: The UK took over the government of Nigeria...

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9 August 1899

The UK took over the government of Nigeria and Lagos from the Royal Niger Company .
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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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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28 February 1908: A Liberal Member of Parliament, Henry York...

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28 February 1908

A Liberal Member of Parliament, Henry York Stanger, introduced a women's suffrage bill which passed its second reading by a majority of 179 votes.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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1543: Andreas Vesalius, professor of anatomy at...

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1543

Andreas Vesalius , professor of anatomy at Padua University, published De humani corporis fabrica, and Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus.
Laqueur, Thomas. “Even Immortality”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 3-9.
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Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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1850: The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight...

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1850

The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight of its criticism against the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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8 October 1898: The Chrimes Brothers, who sold abortion pills...

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8 October 1898

The Chrimes Brothers, who sold abortion pills called Lady Montrose's Miracle Female Tabules, blackmailed between eight and ten thousand of their customers by sending out letters threatening exposure if they did not receive £2...

October 1886: St Hugh's College for women was founded at...

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October 1886

St Hugh's College for women was founded at Oxford University; its first principal was Anne Moberly .
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Kemp, Betty. “The Early History of St. Hugh’s College”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 15-47.
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Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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1936: Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann discovered...

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1936

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann discovered the earth's inner core, a solid mass within its liquid outer core.
Women in Physics (WiP): Inge Lehmann. http://www.physics.purdue.edu/wip/herstory/lehmann.html.
Carlowicz, Michael. Inge Lehmann (1888-1993). http://replay.web.archive.org/20080917143316/http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/lehmann2.html.

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.

1 May 1997: In the general election Labour, under its...

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1 May 1997

In the general election Labour , under its new leader, the young Scotsman Tony Blair , at last dislodged the Conservative Party from government.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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Gilmour, Ian. “Vote for the Beast!”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 13-14.
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By 1975: The popularity of autobiographies and novels...

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By 1975

The popularity of autobiographies and novels like Maxine Hong Kingston 's Woman Warrior and Rita Mae Brown 's Rubyfruit Jungle had opened a large and growing reading market for coming-of-age works by women writers from...

1912: Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate...

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1912

Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate through Duckworth .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Dorothea Celesia

DC was an Englishwoman who lived for most of her adult life in Genoa, the native country of her husband. Her published works are a tragedy, staged in 1771, and a long poem of...
Dorothea Celesia Colour photograph of Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick, London, beside the Thames: the scene of Dorothea Celesia's childhood.

1792: The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792...

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1792

The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792 listed 53 women as lodging-house keepers.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Late June 1862: The Council of the College of Physicians...

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Late June 1862

The Council of the College of Physicians in Edinburgh decided, by a vote of eighteen to sixteen, against admitting women.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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6 February 1884: Mother of the Salvation Army Catherine Booth...

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6 February 1884

Mother of the Salvation ArmyCatherine Booth delivered at Exeter Hall a speech, later published as a pamphlet, called The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice.
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.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.

Elizabeth Strutt

As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...

: Shakespeare probably completed the story...

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Winter 1598-9

Shakespeare probably completed the story of his two Henry IV history plays by writing Henry V, in which the charismatic but formerly undisciplined prince makes good as national military hero.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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27 February 1768: A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published...

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27 February 1768

A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published the work which is generally classed as his second novel (also an episodic travel book), A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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5 November 1709: Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon...

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5 November 1709

Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon at St Paul's Cathedral challenging the 1688 settlement of the succession.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1 July 1960: The newly independent British Somaliland...

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1 July 1960

The newly independent British Somaliland joined with Somalia as an independent republic.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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March 1686: James II's General Pardon and Royal Warrant...

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March 1686

James II 's General Pardon and Royal Warrant released another batch of persecuted Quakers from prison.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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By 1859: Aniline dyes (discovered three years before)...

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By 1859

Aniline dyes (discovered three years before) were introduced in manufacturing; clothing brightened considerably.
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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Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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About 1700: The earliest examples of fountain pens (in...

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About 1700

The earliest examples of fountain pens (in brass, with quill nibs) were made by Nicolas Bion, instrument-maker to Louis XIV .
Marshall, Jim. “Fountain Pens”. The Author, Vol.
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19 September 1939: British Government broadcasts repeatedly...

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19 September 1939

British Government broadcasts repeatedly urged people who had been evacuated because of the threat of bombing to STAY WHERE YOU ARE.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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