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8 July 1815: Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna,...

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8 July 1815

Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna, Louis XVIII was restored for the second time to the throne of France, from which he had been driven by Napoleon .
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
17: 48

30 July 1766: William Pitt again formed a Whig ministry,...

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30 July 1766

William Pitt again formed a Whig ministry, but his health was so poor that he resigned as Prime Minister before the general election of spring 1768.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
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1937: The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its...

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1937

The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its Pelican imprint: a non-fiction series (mostly history, sociology, economics, or politics) which, unlike Penguin fiction, were new works not reprints.
Penguin UK: About Us: Company History. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/history.html.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 July 2009

11 August 1875: The Sale of Food and Drugs Act drastically...

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11 August 1875

The Sale of Food and Drugs Act drastically reduced the adulteration of common foods.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
208, 210
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

R. M. Ballantyne

September 1914: The monthly Pall Mall Magazine ceased publication....

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September 1914

The monthly Pall Mall Magazine ceased publication. The following month it was re-launched as Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
488
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.

Anna Williams

AW was an eighteenth-century translator and poet. Best-known among her slender oeuvre is a miscellany or anthology of contemporary poems. Her projected dictionary of scientific terms remained unwritten.
Anna Williams Photograph of a painting of Anna Williams by Frances Reynolds. Williams gazes slightly to the right, away from the viewer. She wears a white cap, with little hair visible, a white bodice, and black mantle or cape. Her pale face makes a strong contrast with the painting's dark background. The picture hangs in Williams's long-term home, Dr Johnson's House in Gough Square, London.

Selima Hill

SH , a poet of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, has been described as a risk-taker, and her poetry as seriously comical. She deals with sexuality, erotic love, and disturbed mental states, all from...

Margaret Drabble

MD is a prolific, resourceful, and often surprising novelist and short-story writer, with a high reputation as a literary historian and critic. She is still widely identified with one of her early styles: the kitchen-sink...
Margaret Drabble Photo of Margaret Drabble signing a book at Beverley Bookfest in Yorkshire on 15 October 2011. She wears a white cardigan over black, a necklace, and glasses.

27 June 1894: Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller...

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27 June 1894

Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller W. H. Smith together announced they would not pay more than four shillings a volume for novels; this forced publishers to abandon triple-decker format, and quickly led to its replacement...

By December 2008: The city of Paris offered a rent-free artist's...

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By December 2008

The city of Paris offered a rent-free artist's studio to Taslima Nasrin or Nasreen , a Pakistani/Bangladeshi author exiled by the denunciation and threats that greeted her novel Lajja (Shame) in 1993.
Chrisafis, Angelique. “Paris opens door to author fleeing Islamist threats”. Guardian Weekly, 9 Jan. 2009, p. 7.
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1906: Rosa Newmarch's second poetry collection,...

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1906

Rosa Newmarch 's second poetry collection, Songs to a Singer and other verses, was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1724: Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published...

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1724

Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, An Essay upon Whoring, as it is now Practis'd in these Kingdoms.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
99-100
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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1972: Another novel by Dulcie Gray, Understudy...

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1972

Another novel by Dulcie Gray , Understudy to Murder, was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

6 June 1928: On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory...

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6 June 1928

On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory dinner
Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. “They got egg on their faces”. London Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2003, pp. 29-30.
29
for a hundred and fifty distinguished people, all male, was held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London to celebrate the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
xv, xix-xxi

April 1792: The Marseillaise was composed in France as...

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April 1792

The Marseillaise was composed in France as a revolutionary song.
Sandock, Mollie. “’I Burn with Contempt for my Foes’: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 105-17.
115

1907: Claire De Pratz's first novel, Eve Norris,...

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1907

Claire De Pratz 's first novel, Eve Norris, appeared through Heinemann .
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.

1897: Alice Diehl published Musical Memories, the...

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1897

Alice Diehl published Musical Memories, the first of her two volumes of autobiography.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By March 1810: George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem...

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By March 1810

George Crabbe published The Borough, a poem in twenty-four letters about life in a country town.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 19 (1810): 335
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

19 February 1788: The Société des amis des noirs (Society of...

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19 February 1788

The Société des amis des noirs (Society of Friends to Blacks) was founded in Paris: it was the first revolutionary club, but a less solid opponent of slavery than it might sound.
Benoit, Bruno. “Review: Bernard Gainot and Marcel Dorigny, La Société des amis des noirs, 1788-1799Cahiers dhistoire, 1999.

1861: Prussian voters elected a strongly liberal...

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1861

Prussian voters elected a strongly liberal parliament.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
89-90

Probably 1783: Vicesimus Knox published his prose anthology...

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Probably 1783

Vicesimus Knox published his prose anthology Elegant Extracts in its earliest form: it achieved both fame for popularising and educating, and notoriety for providing a mere veneer of culture.
Difficulty in dating this work is...

1 January 1830: J. W. Croker for the first time used the...

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1 January 1830

J. W. Croker for the first time used the word Conservative to refer to the party which for a century and half had been called Tory.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Liberal
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Conservative

June 1876: The London Anti-Vivisection Society and the...

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June 1876

The London Anti-Vivisection Society and the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection were founded.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
89, 160