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28 October 1909: Charlotte Despard edited the first issue...

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28 October 1909

Charlotte Despard edited the first issue of The Vote: Organ of the Women's Freedom League, a weekly magazine from London covering a range of feminist issues, including suffrage.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1982: Anna Adams published a small volume of poetry,...

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1982

Anna Adams published a small volume of poetry, The Ratio of One to a Stone, which inludes an introduction by William Packard .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1950: Grace Robertson, a noted photojournalist...

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1950

Grace Robertson , a noted photojournalist whose work is held by many galleries, began her tenure with Picture Post.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

May 1934: Robert Graves's historical novel I, Claudius,...

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May 1934

Robert Graves 's historical novel I, Claudius, narrated in the first person by a Roman emperor whose reputation with posterity was that of an idiot, was published to enthusiastic reviews.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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Burrow, Colin. “Adjusting the Mechanism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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7 April 1944: Rudolf Vrba and Fred Wetzler escaped from...

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7 April 1944

Rudolf Vrba and Fred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz in Poland. They headed for Slovakia, where by the end of the month they submitted a report on the Nazi death-camp to the Slovak Judenrat

Elizabeth Montagu

EM , eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare
Elizabeth Montagu Mezzotint of Elizabeth Montagu, published by John Raphael Smith in 1776 after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. She is seen in profile, sitting in a large upholstered chair against a backdrop of drapery, a pillar, and an outdoor landscape. Her dress and petticoat are voluminous and heavily decorated, with ruffled sleeves and a bow at the neck. Her hair is brushed back under a small bonnet perched on top of her head and tied with a dark ribbon. Below the image is a coat of arms and italic writing: "Mrs. Mon

10 May 1892: Frederic Eugene Ives first exhibited his...

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10 May 1892

Frederic Eugene Ives first exhibited his patented method for producing colour prints (three-colour printing with half-tone cuts) at the Royal Institution, London.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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By 1750: Scotland had five newspapers, printed in...

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By 1750

Scotland had five newspapers, printed in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; meanwhile English newspaper sales totalled about 7.3 million.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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By mid-October 1869: The forerunner of the National Association...

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By mid-October 1869

The forerunner of the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was founded in response to extensionist leanings at the Social Science Association Congress at Bristol.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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1813: Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate...

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1813

Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate Prison in London; horrified at conditions there, she began providing food and education for female and child prisoners, and agitated for prison reform.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Rose, June. Elizabeth Fry. Macmillan, 1980.
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1920: Women's Health and Beauty ceased publication...

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1920

Women's Health and Beauty ceased publication in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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1912: A second teachers' registration was established...

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1912

A second teachers' registration was established to create and maintain teaching standards among its members and to influence government policy regarding employment standards and conditions for teachers.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.

31 January 1893: The Westminster Gazette was launched in London....

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31 January 1893

The Westminster Gazette was launched in London. With various small changes of title it ran until 1930. It was then re-named the News Chronicle, and ran until 1955.
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.

2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...

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2 September 1752

Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...

December 1955: Black activist Claudia Jones, threatened...

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December 1955

Black activist Claudia Jones , threatened with deportation from the USA to her native Trinidad for violating anti-Communist laws, arrived in London, where she spent her nine remaining years.
Weigand, Kate. “A Radical Activist, Rediscovered”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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January 1961: In the month of taking office, President...

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January 1961

In the month of taking office, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy set up a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) to report on the position of women in the United States.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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1858: The innovative Female Mission to the Fallen...

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1858

The innovative Female Mission to the Fallen was organized and funded by the Reformatory and Refuge Union .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1823: The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland;...

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1823

The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland; its leader was Daniel O'Connell .
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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1593: A telescope bequeathed to his widow this...

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1593

A telescope bequeathed to his widow this year by a resident of Barcelona suggests that the telescope was originally a Spanish invention.
“Spaniard may have invented telescope”. Guardian Weekly, 26 Sept. 2008, p. 29.
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15 November 1945: Delegates to a convention in Dungannon, including...

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15 November 1945

Delegates to a convention in Dungannon, including nationalist MPs and senators, founded the Irish Anti-Partition League , whose aim was to reverse the 1921 partition of Ireland.
“1945 - 1963: The Birth of the Irish Republic and Economic Development”. History of Ireland.

1226: Abbess Euphemia became director of a Benedictine...

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1226

Abbess Euphemia became director of a Benedictine monastery in Hampshire.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Constance Garnett

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...
Constance Garnett Black and white photograph of Constance Garnett in the mid 1890s, sitting beside her young son David. She is turned towards him and together they hold a picture or a picture book. She wears a long dark dress with dark gathered collar and small spectacles, and her hair is neatly pinned in a bun on top of her head.

5 May 1919: The League of Red Cross and Red Crescent...

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5 May 1919

The League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (later the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ) was established.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.

1823: Francis Place distributed in London the pamphlet...

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1823

Francis Place distributed in London the pamphlet To the Married of Both Sexes; it contained contraceptive information, and is now considered to be the earliest work on birth control.
Chandrasekhar, Sripati et al. "A Dirty Filthy Book": The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial. University of California Press, 1981.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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