Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1906: The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, opened...
“Gielgud Theatre”. LondonTown.com: London Entertainment.
16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...
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16 December 1789
The Society for Constitutional Information
(a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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1729: Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus),...
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1729
Carl von Linné (also known as Linnaeus)
, twenty-two this year, published his early Praeludia Sponsaliarum Plantarum, which already sexualises and anthropomorphises plant reproduction.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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22 May 1761: Lady Sarah Lennox returned to court after...
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22 May 1761
Lady Sarah Lennox
returned to court after recovering from a broken leg.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
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14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...
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14 January 1994
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
, converted to Catholicism
, becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.
“1994: Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church”. BBC News: On This Day, 14 Jan. 1994.
1854: A Select Committee was assembled to investigate...
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1854
A Select Committee was assembled to investigate medical relief after the annual national expenditure reached £4,000,000.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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28 October 1971: The British Black Arrow programme at Woomera,...
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28 October 1971
The British Black Arrow programme at Woomera, Australia, successfully launched its prototype rocket R3 and put the satellite Prospero in orbit (probably to remain until about 2040).
Spufford, Francis. “Operation Backfire”. London Review of Books, 28 Oct. 1999, pp. 21-7.
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Prospero was to have been...
By July 1777: William Russell published his History of...
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By July 1777
William Russell
published his History of America in two volumes at London. The date on the title page reads 1778.
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
44 (1777): 49-61
June 1900: Motor Carriage Supply Company offered England's...
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June 1900
Motor Carriage Supply Company
offered England's first driving lessons as a side line to their main business of repairing cars.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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15 March 1866: Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state...
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15 March 1866
Lord Clarence Paget
sought to extend state regulation of prostitutes with the introduction in Parliament of An Act for the Better Prevention of Contagious Diseases at certain Naval and Military Stations.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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: Elizabeth Blackwell returned to Britain from...
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Summer 1869
Elizabeth Blackwell
returned to Britain from the United States (where she had taken her degree), and began practicing medicine in London.
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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4 July 1940: The British government launched a project...
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4 July 1940
The British government launched a project known as Auxiliary Units
, with headquarters at Coleshill House near Faringdon in Berkshire.
“Secret wartime past revealed”. National Trust: Near you, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Hampshire / Oxfordshire / Isle of Wight / London, 2010.
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1892: The Dictionary of Psychological Medicine...
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1892
The Dictionary of Psychological Medicine was published.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
By this date, the word lingerie began to be used in its modern sense.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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26 June 1856: The Bishop of Oxford expressed his fear that...
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26 June 1856
The Bishop of Oxford expressed his fear that enabling divorce for the lowest classes would endanger the moral purity of married life.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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Early 1958 to late 1960: Mao Tse-tung carried out in China the ironically-named...
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Early 1958 to late 1960
Mao Tse-tung
carried out in China the ironically-named Great Leap Forward, forcibly converting the peasants to collective agriculture and collective living and eating.
Becker, Jasper. “Business as Usual at the ’People’s Daily’”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 26-7.
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Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 21-8.
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1880: The Platinotype Company produced platinum-based...
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1880
The Platinotype Company
produced platinum-based photographic paper for commercial sale; this offered greater permanence and tonal range than earlier silver-based papers.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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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1986: Jacqueline Rudet's dramatic work Money to...
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1986
Jacqueline Rudet
's dramatic work Money to Live and an associated afterword were included in Plays By Women, edited by Mary Remnant
.
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.
1974: The English National Opera was created: the...
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1974
The English National Opera
was created: the latest, most secure incarnation of the Vic-Wells Opera
, a company founded by Lilian Baylis
in 1931, which moved from Sadler's Wells Theatre to the London Coliseum in 1968.
English National Opera. http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/enoabout.html.
January 1876: The Methodist Protest, the monthly organ...
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January 1876
The Methodist Protest, the monthly organ of the Wesleyan Society for Securing the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, began publication in London.
1834: Architect Augustus Pugin converted to Roman...
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1834
Architect Augustus Pugin
converted to Roman Catholicism; he designed many of the newly-built Catholic churches in the Gothic style.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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March 1940: The National Book Council began publishing...
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March 1940
The National Book Council
began publishing a monthly Selection of Recent Books Published in Great Britain, which in January 1941 became British Book News.
British Book News. British Council.
(March 1940)
13 January 1708: The two licensed London theatre companies...
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13 January 1708
The two licensed London theatre companies struck an agreement which would put an end to some aspects of recent cut-throat competition.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
