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1813: Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough...

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1813

Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough of Southwark was designed by architect Sir John Soane as the world's first purpose-built public art gallery.
Beard, Mary. “Half-Wrecked”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 24-5.
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27 May 1941: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following...

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27 May 1941

The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following a chase by British ships.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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August 1878: The Bicycle Touring Club was founded by Stanley...

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August 1878

The Bicycle Touring Club was founded by Stanley Cotterell .
Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Dorian Gerhold. The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990. Macmillan, 1993.
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Richardson, Kenneth, and C. N. O’Gallagher. The British Motor Industry 1896-1939. Macmillan, 1977.
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D. H. Lawrence

DHL published prolifically between 1909 and his death in 1930: poetry, novels, short stories, travel literature, and social comment. He was always a controversialist, fighting against the machanizing, dehumanizing, desexualizing tendencies of modern life, and...
D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence, passport photograph (therefore straight-on head and shoulders), 24 February 1929. He is unsmiling, and his jacket, tie, beard and moustache are conspicuously neat.

1937: The new Irish constitution included Article...

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1937

The new Irish constitution included Article 41.2 which stated that In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot...

1916: Special clinics were set up in England for...

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1916

Special clinics were set up in England for the investigation and treatment of venereal disease.
Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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Kennedy, Meegan. “Syphilis and the Hysterical Female: the limits of realism in Sarah Grands The Heavenly TwinsWomens Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2004, pp. 259-80.
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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10 December 1928: Sigrid Undset's powerful and evocative novelistic...

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10 December 1928

Sigrid Undset 's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson won the prize in Physics.)
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
20 May 2009
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

December 1686: A case brought by one London married couple...

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December 1686

A case brought by one London married couple against another (with one wife accusing the other of business cheating) illuminates the conditions of women's work.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1624: An Act covering England and Wales was passed...

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1624

An Act covering England and Wales was passed to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard children.
May, Allyson N. “’She at first denied it’: Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 19-49.
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November 1913: Albert W. Gray Jamrach edited in London the...

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November 1913

Albert W. Gray Jamrach edited in London the first issue of the Altruist, a monthly magazine from the Men's Society for Women's Rights , concerned with prostitution.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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26 May 1870: Responding to fierce public debate, the Female...

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26 May 1870

Responding to fierce public debate, the Female Medical Society announced in The Times that all medical degrees and licences to practise medicine should be open to candidates without distinction of sex.
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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Maggie Gee

MG 's novels are deeply marked by the various threats that dominated the late twentieth century: nuclear damage, global warming, urban disintegration. They often centre on the particular difficulties and dilemmas of women's lives and...
Maggie Gee Head-to-toe colour photo portrait of Maggie Gee at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 9 October 2010. She is wearing a black and red outfit, complete with red-laced shoes, a red coat, and red rings on her fingers. The photo is taken outside.

1912: Sydney C. Grier's novel One Crowded Hour...

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1912

Sydney C. Grier 's novel One Crowded Hour was published the year before her mother died.
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.

Mary, Countess Cowper

Most of MCC 's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other...
Mary, Countess Cowper Portrait of Mary, Countess Cowper, by Godfrey Kneller or one of his school, 1709. She sits facing the viewer, head a little turned to her right, on a stone bench, by a fountain in front of a stone column and landscape. She wears a voluminous golden gown with white lace showing at the wrist and deep neckline, and holds a book in her right hand. A piece of paper with writing on it lies beside her.

Andrea Levy

AL was a Black British novelist with roots in Jamaica, who began publishing towards the end of the twentieth century. Her five novels (in 2015) centre on the attainment of satisfactory mixed-race and mixed-nationality...
Andrea Levy Portrait photo of Andrea Levy. She has curly black hair and a white cardigan. Behind her is a tree trunk and to her left is a smattering of foliage.

Hannah More

During her long and phenomenally productive career HM wrote plays, poems, a single novel and much social, religious, and political commentary. She was the leading conservative and Christian moralist of her day. Her political opinions...
Hannah More Photograph of a painting of Hannah More by Henry William Pickersgill, 1822. She is seated on a red-upholstered chair beside a little table draped in red fabric and bearing a quill pen, inkwell, and piece of paper. She wears a blue-green mantle with V neck and creamy fabric at the cuffs and neckline, finished with a ruff around her neck. She has a gold shawl and a cap topped with pale blue ribbons. More wrote that she was "condemned, sorely against her will," to sit for this portrait. The version here, in th

Hannah Cullwick

HC wrote seventeen diaries between the years 1854 and 1873, plus numerous letters chronicling in detail her life as a lower servant, as well as her long cross-class courtship and eventual marriage to Arthur Munby
Hannah Cullwick Sepia toned photograph of Hannah Cullwick, shown from the waist up. She is slightly turned, with her arms crossed, and gaze into the distance with a slightly challenging expression. She is wearing an oversize suit jacket, a collared shirt and cravat; her hair is cut short.

By late June 1999: J. M. Coetzee became the first author to...

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By late June 1999

J. M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize a second time, with Disgrace; his Life & Times of Martin K. had won in 1983.
“Who’s who in the Man Booker Prize”. Man Group plc.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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1857: Before this date, women artists were represented...

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1857

Before this date, women artists were represented in higher proportion in provincial rather than London galleries.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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January 1852: Publisher John Chapman purchased the Westminster...

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January 1852

Publisher John Chapman purchased the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly and began issuing it as the Westminster Review (which, twenty-eight years and several mergers back, had been its original name).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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1957: The Homicide Act provided a distinction for...

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1957

The Homicide Act provided a distinction for sentencing purposes between different kinds of murder in Britain: capital or multiple murderers got the death penalty, others a life sentence.
Upton, John. “He huffs and he puffs”. London Review of Books, 19 June 2003, pp. 22-3.
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By 19 March 1887: Bertha Thomas published her novel Elizabeth's...

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By 19 March 1887

Bertha Thomas published her novel Elizabeth's Fortune, which originally appeared in London Society.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3099 (1887): 375
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1775: The London Review of English and Foreign...

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1775

The London Review of English and Foreign Literature began publication.
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.