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1925: Christine Murrell and Letitia Fairfield,...

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1925

Christine Murrell and Letitia Fairfield , in association with the Medical Women's Federation , set out to explode some damaging myths by launching a survey on menstrual experience among girls.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signed the US Voting Rights...

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6 August 1965

Lyndon B. Johnson signed the US Voting Rights Act, which banned the use of race or colour as a category in the election process: this finally gave black people the vote on equal terms with...

30 October 1947: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...

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30 October 1947

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was established to promote the expansion of international trade.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.

12 February 1980: US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich...

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12 February 1980

US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich Village, New York, two years after publishing her Collected Poems and four years after her last new collection, The Gates, 1976.
Gardinier, Suzanne. “The Moral Imagination”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 4, July–Aug. 2006, pp. 10-11.
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27 February 1730: Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for...

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27 February 1730

Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for raping a servant.
Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Schwarz, Joan I. “Statutory and Case Rape Law and Women’s Representation”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI, 1993.

9 May 1817: Catholic Emancipation was voted down in parliament...

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9 May 1817

Catholic Emancipation was voted down in parliament by the narrowest of margins: 243 votes to 241.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.

1690 or 1691: One of the earliest Societies for the Reformation...

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1690 or 1691

One of the earliest Societies for the Reformation of Manners was founded in Tower Hamlets on the outskirts of London, by a group of Anglican gentlemen.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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April 1971-April 1972: Ink newspaper briefly flourished in London...

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April 1971-April 1972

Ink newspaper briefly flourished in London as an offshoot of Oz, intended by its male editors as a link between national papers and the 1960s underground press.
Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Apr. 2008.

Hannah Allen

HA was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian sect) of the later seventeenth century.

1968-84: The new Preservation Microfilming Office...

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1968-84

The new Preservation Microfilming Office at the Library of Congress filmed 93 million pages (300,000 volumes of books, besides newspapers); the volumes themselves were destroyed.
Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
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1926: Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed...

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1926

Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed and Ward Limited at 31 Paternoster Row, London, to publish and circulate Catholic thought.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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January 1883: Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly)...

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January 1883

Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly) publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1820: John Philip travelled to South Africa to...

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1820

John Philip travelled to South Africa to oversee the activities of the London Missionary Society .
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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: Following an agreement of the British government...

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Summer 1953

Following an agreement of the British government to import German cars to the value of two million pounds over the next year, the Volkswagen (or people's car) went on sale in Britain.
“’People’s Car’ makes UK debut”. Guardian Weekly, 8 June 2007, p. 22.
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1927: The Imperial Airways Monthly Bulletin regularly...

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1927

The Imperial Airways Monthly Bulletin regularly published lists of their most distinguished and interesting passengers who have travelled on our London to Paris services since the last issue.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Late 1918: Women in Germany received enfranchisement...

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Late 1918

Women in Germany received enfranchisement after the armistice; they first voted the following year.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...

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October 1857

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was organized in London.
Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Burstyn, Joan. Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood. Croom Helm, 1980.
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Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
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By 2 September 1837: W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were,...

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By 2 September 1837

W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, extolling the virtues of the self-employed lunatic and a hierarchy of industry within the asylum.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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30 October 1793: The French National Convention prohibited...

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30 October 1793

The French National Convention prohibited women's clubs and societies.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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September 1894: The first British viewcards (picture-postcards)...

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September 1894

The first British viewcards (picture-postcards) were issued by the London branch of George Stewart and Company of Edinburgh.
Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.
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“Raphael Tuck & Sons”. Emotions Greetings Card Museum.

Shena Mackay

SM had published by the close of the twentieth century ten novels and several short-story collections. She has also edited anthologies and written poetry, and she reviews for newspapers. She is highly popular as well...
Shena Mackay Portrait of Shena Mackay. She has cropped white hair with bangs, and wears an orange cardigan. Her arms are crossed in front of her, and she holds her glasses in her left hand. The background is a dark teal.

29 June 1871: The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour...

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29 June 1871

The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour unions but denied workers the right to picket.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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1969: Charles Goldfarb of IBM and two associates...

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1969

Charles Goldfarb of IBM and two associates invented the Generalized Markup Language (GML): he is sometimes called the father of SGML, or Standard Generalized Markup Language, of which GML was a predecessor.
Goldfarb, Charles. The SGML Handbook. Editor Rubinsky, Yuri, Clarendon, 1990.
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1921: John Maynard Keynes published A Treatise...

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1921

John Maynard Keynes published A Treatise on Probability.
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.

1848: The Society of the Most Holy Trinity, an...

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1848

The Society of the Most Holy Trinity , an Anglican nursing order, was founded.
Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
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