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By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

2 November 1949: The first double-decked train in England...

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2 November 1949

The first double-decked train in England went into service with the Southern Region of British Rail .
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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17 December 1957: The United States made the first successful...

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17 December 1957

The United States made the first successful launch of the Air Force Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Between 1988 and 1994: A crash in the British property market during...

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Between 1988 and 1994

A crash in the British property market during this period caused the spread of negative equity. The drop in housing prices meant that the value of some homes was less than the amount owed...

Easter 1936: Billy (Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne)...

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Easter 1936

Billy (Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne) Butlin opened his first holiday camp at the bracing East coast holiday resort of Skegness in Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...

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1871

Owens College in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
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Rupert Brooke

RB , one of the leading voices in the early twentieth-century Georgian movement in poetry, is remembered primarily as a war poet, although he died before the First World War was a year old.
Rupert Brooke Black-and-white, head-and-shoulders photo of Rupert Brooke taken by Sherril Schell in 1913. Brooke leans a little forward and turns to look into the camera. He has wavy hair, and is wearing a suit and large cravat.

27 October 2005: Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very...

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27 October 2005

Margaret Walters published Feminism: A Very Short Introduction in a popular series from Oxford University Press .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

1784: Henry Fearon, surgeon, published A Treatise...

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1784

Henry Fearon , surgeon, published A Treatise on Cancers, with a New and Successful Method of Operating, Particularly in Cancers of the Breast and Testis.
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.
Porter, Roy, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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1741: The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical...

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1741

The Gentleman's Diary, subtitled A Mathematical Repository,
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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began annual publication in London.
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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By 1750: More people in England worked in manufacture,...

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By 1750

More people in England worked in manufacture, commerce and in services than in agriculture.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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1662: William Winstanley launched Poor Robin's...

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1662

William Winstanley launched Poor Robin's Almanac, an annual publication whose satirical element made it almost more like a mock than a true almanac.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
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1980: Josephine Saxton's feminist science fiction...

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1980

Josephine Saxton 's feminist science fiction tale The Travails of Jane Saint was published.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

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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5 July 1931: Ninette de Valois's ballet Job, with music...

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5 July 1931

Ninette de Valois 's ballet Job, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams , was performed for the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
374
Clarke, Mary, 1923 -, and David Vaughan, editors. The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet. Pitman, 1977.
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By May 1697: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife...

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By May 1697

Sir John Vanbrugh 's comedy The Provok'd Wife had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...

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August 1868

A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken (famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...

February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...

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February 1987

The St Hilda Community , activists for Anglican women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College , London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol .
Furlong, Monica. “The St Hilda Community—narrative of a group which supports female priests”. The Ecumenical Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 82-5.

Emily Jane Pfeiffer

Mid-Victorian feminist EJP published during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She composed three lengthy narrative poems, six volumes of other poetry, a work documenting her travels, a play, a work of prose fantasy...
Emily Jane Pfeiffer Photograph of a head-and-shoulders drawing of Emily Jane Pfeiffer. Her hair is pulled back, with several headbands round it; she wears earrings, a necklace, and a dress draped from the shoulders, with a large rose pinned at the neckline.

1989: Jan Shinebourne's short story This is Modern...

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1989

Jan Shinebourne 's short story This is Modern Times was included in a collection of Caribbean stories, Her True-True Name, edited by Pamela Mordecai and Betty Wilson .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Pearl S. Buck

PSB , first US woman to win the Nobel prize in literature, was raised in a missionary family on illicit reading of novels from Victorian England and from a Chinese tradition of melodramatic, popular tales...
Pearl S. Buck Black and white photograph of Pearl S. Buck, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a light dress and a dark cardigan, with her wavy hair pulled loosely back.

1984: The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth...

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1984

The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth Bond 's play Minor Complications influenced by visits to India and her family's connection with the British Raj. The same year her Sideways Down was produced at Riverside Studios

8 May 1980: The World Health Organization's Resolution...

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8 May 1980

The World Health Organization 's Resolution 33.3 recorded the global eradication of smallpox (announced the previous December).
Pennington, Hugh. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 5 Sept. 2002, pp. 32-3.
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1875: Although institutionally-regulated corporal...

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1875

Although institutionally-regulated corporal punishment for criminals was less frequent as the nineteenth century progressed, a Parliament ary Report recommended the lash for husbands convicted of wife-beating.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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King, Elspeth. The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women: The Thenew Factor. Mainstream Publishing, 1993.
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1873: The monthly Broadway magazine ceased pub...

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1873

The monthly Broadway magazine ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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