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1967: Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Member of...

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1967

Margaret Thatcher , Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley, was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet .
Colley, Linda. “Little Havens of Intimacy”. London Review of Books, 7 Sept. 2000, pp. 8-9.
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December 1907: The Eugenics Education Society was founded;...

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December 1907

The Eugenics Education Society was founded; Francis Galton , geneticist, joined and in 1908 became honorary president.
Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Knopf, 1985.
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Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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17 May 1954: In Brown vs Board of Education, the US Supreme...

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17 May 1954

In Brown vs Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racially segregated schools and schooling were unconstitutional: a violation of the 14th Amendment.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 241
Culley, Margo. “The courage of their convictions”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xvii
, No. 8, May 2000, pp. 1-4.
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“Desegregation: Introduction”. Old Dominion University Libraries: Special Collections: Manuscripts.

29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...

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29 September 1904

Gertrude von Petzold , a German Unitarian , became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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Gilley, Keith. “The ministry of women”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. 29.
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1927: Woman's Journal, aimed at upper-middle-class...

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1927

Woman's Journal, aimed at upper-middle-class women and featuring domestic issues, began monthly publication from London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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1806: German pharmacy assistant Frederick Sertürner...

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1806

German pharmacy assistant Frederick Sertürner isolated the drug morphia from opium; it became widely available in Britain from the 1820s.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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Historians Duin and Sutcliffe give 1803 as the year of this discovery. However...

Angela Thirkell

AT , having already published journalism (some of it literary) and a family memoir, launched her career as a novelist in the 1930s (her own early forties) and continued publishing for nearly thirty years at...
Angela Thirkell Photograph of a drawing of Angela Thirkell, drawn in black and white. She is depicted from the shoulders up, wearing a simple dress with ruffled sleeves, and her dark hair is pulled back. There is a signature and a date in the bottom right-hand corner. The signature is not clearly visible but the date appears to be 1918.

3 October 1932: The Times first used the Times New Roman...

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3 October 1932

The Times first used the Times New Roman type-face, designed by Stanley Morison .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Dahl, Svend. Dahl’s History of the Book. Editor Katz, William A., 3rd English ed., Scarecrow Press, 1995.
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By 1815: The number of capital crimes in Britain reached...

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By 1815

The number of capital crimes in Britain reached about 225 separate offences: up by at least sixty over the last fifty years, after rising steeply even before that.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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1878: The Ambulance Association of the British...

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1878

The Ambulance Association of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded began an organized ambulance service for civilians.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Philip Larkin

PL is now widely regarded as one of the leading English poets of the later twentieth century. His output was small and his chosen form is brief, tightly structured, rhyming and self-contained, using a demotic...
Philip Larkin Statue of Philip Larkin by Martin Jennings at Hull Paragon railway station in Yorkshire, unveiled 2 December 2010. Larkin is mid stride, holding a book under one arm and a hat in his other hand.

1749: An appeal to raise funds to institute a Magdalen...

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1749

An appeal to raise funds to institute a Magdalen Hospital in London (for prostitutes wishing to reform) netted £5000 in a few months.
Perry, Ruth. “Good Girls and Fallen Women: Representations of Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Fiction”. Narrating Transgression: Representations of the Criminal in Early Modern England, edited by Rosamaria Loretelli and Roberto De Romanis, Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 91-101.
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16 July 1929: The Irish Censorship of Publications Act...

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16 July 1929

The Irish Censorship of Publications Act restricted publication of matter deemed indecent that was judged injurious to public morals.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Shatter, Alan Joseph. Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. 2nd ed., Wolfhound Press, 1981.
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William John Courthope

September 1883: The Medical Enquirer, the organ of the National...

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September 1883

The Medical Enquirer, the organ of the National Medical Association for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Prostitution, ceased publication in Liverpool.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...

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By 1643

Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
Disse, Dorothy. “Arcangela Tarabotti”. Other Women’s Voices.

1858: The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin...

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1858

The Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin was founded in Wymering, Hampshire.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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23 April 1924: The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley...

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23 April 1924

The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley with a speech by King George V —his first broadcast speech on the BBC .
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Turner, Ernest Sackville. “The Crystal Palace”. London Review of Books, 25 Nov. 1999, pp. 19-20.
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16 April 1993: More than a hundred Muslims were massacred...

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16 April 1993

More than a hundred Muslims were massacred in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici; for this, in January 2000, five men were found guilty of war crimes by a United Nations tribunal.
Guardian Weekly.
(20-26 January 2000): 4

1949: TPI (Treponema Pallidum Immobilization) tests...

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1949

TPI (Treponema Pallidum Immobilization) tests for venereal disease were developed.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
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August 1855: James Kaye's The Non-Existence of Women appeared...

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August 1855

James Kaye 's The Non-Existence of Women appeared in the North British Review.
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
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North British Review.
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1892: Jane Payne became the first woman member...

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1892

Jane Payne became the first woman member of the London Society of Compositors .
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. Pluto Press, 1983.
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6 February 1756: A national fast day was held in Britain,...

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6 February 1756

A national fast day was held in Britain, to pray for success in the Seven Years War.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
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21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...

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1886

Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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