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7 June 1935: Stanley Baldwin, now of the National Coalition...

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7 June 1935

Stanley Baldwin , now of the National Coalition Party , became Prime Minister for the third time, following MacDonald 's retirement.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

26 August 1889: The Local Government (Scotland) Act explicitly...

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26 August 1889

The Local Government (Scotland) Act explicitly decreed that women were ineligible for election as county councillors.
Halevy, Elie. The Rule of Democracy 1905-1914. Translator Watkin, Edward Ingram, Second (revised) Edition, Peter Smith, 1952, 2 vols.
513
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
1889: 206-8

23 November 1869: The Cutty Sark, most famous and speedy of...

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23 November 1869

The Cutty Sark, most famous and speedy of the British tea clippers, was launched.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
115
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
175
Albion, Robert G. Five Centuries of Famous Ships: From the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer. McGraw-Hill, 1978.
262-3

1924: Helen Hamilton this year published both her...

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1924

Helen Hamilton this year published both her first poetry collection, entitled Hope and Other Poems, and also (through Blackwell ) Great Meddow: Studies of Village Life.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1937: Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published...

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1937

Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published a biography entitiled Jane Austen , Study for a Portrait.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

9-16 May 1916: The UK, France, and Russia secretly agreed...

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9-16 May 1916

The UK, France, and Russia secretly agreed to partition Asiatic Turkey amongst them, liberate non-Turkish Ottoman subjects, and place Palestine under an international regime.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 774, 879
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
964
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
352
Anderson, Perry. “Kemalism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2008, pp. 3-12.
7

22 March 1896: Thomas Hughes, novelist, died at Brighton,...

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22 March 1896

Thomas Hughes , novelist, died at Brighton, East Sussex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163

1837: Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia...

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1837

Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia band were the first American band to tour Britain.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
215-16

1927: Cresset Press was founded in London by Dennis...

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1927

Cresset Press was founded in London by Dennis David Myer Cohen , who commissioned several then-unknown artists such as Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes to work on his publications.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
70, 36
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
67

13 July 1584: A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter...

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13 July 1584

A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh landed in North America, in what became the colony of Virginia. The next summer Ralegh, having received a patent or royal permission as a colonist...

Cecily Mackworth

CM , an Anglo-Welsh writer who lived most of her life in France, whose publishing career stretched from the 1930s into the twenty-first century, was described in an obituary as a poet, critic, novelist, biographer...

1924: The United States Congress laid its first-ever...

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1924

The United States Congress laid its first-ever restrictions on the number and type of immigrants to be admitted: 150,000 a year, of whom 70% were to be British, Irish, German, etc.
Kennedy, David. “Leur Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 24-5.
24

1873: The Plymouth Ladies' Committee, a Contagious...

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1873

The PlymouthLadies' Committee , a Contagious Diseases Acts repeal group, published Caroline Nicholson 's What I Saw at the Royal Albert Hospital.
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.
121
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
165

9 December 1961: Tanganyika gained its independence from ...

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9 December 1961

Tanganyika gained its independence from Britain.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1236
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
259

Margaret Atwood

Well before the end of the twentieth century MA had become one of Canada's leading writers in multiple genres. She now writes for a global audience who read her more than forty novels , poetry,short...
Margaret Atwood Black-and-white photo of Margaret Atwood standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone, gesturing with her hands, 5 April 1973.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad 's publishing career spans a little over the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges him to be one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political...
Joseph Conrad Black-and-white, half-length photograph of Joseph Conrad by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916. Conrad looks up and out of the frame, with smooth hair and trimmed beard and moustache, wearing a jacket and waistcoat, and holding a cigarette.

January 1849-April 1851: Robert Smith Surtees' fox-hunting novel Mr...

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January 1849-April 1851

Robert Smith Surtees ' fox-hunting novel Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine; it appeared in one volume in 1853.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1934: Mother, aimed at lower- and middle-class...

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1934

Mother, aimed at lower- and middle-class women, began monthly publication in London; it ran until 1936.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
95
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
152

1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...

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1823

William Huskisson , as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade , secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Huskisson

18 November 1941: Britain's Eighth Army launched the Crusader...

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18 November 1941

Britain's Eighth Army launched the Crusader campaign to relieve the garrison at Tobruk in Libya.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
68-9
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
284

1839: Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches...

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1839

Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, 1832-1836.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Before 22 April 1739: Anne Dodd, for almost thirty years the best-known...

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Before 22 April 1739

Anne Dodd , for almost thirty years the best-known of all the Londonmercuries or trade publishers, died, leaving the business to her daughters.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 103-5

16 November 1682: The recently-formed United Company gave its...

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16 November 1682

The recently-formed United Company gave its first stage performance at Drury Lane Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 299, 316

1873: Miss Robinson operated a temperance canteen...

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1873

Miss Robinson operated a temperance canteen for soldiers on Dartmoor.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
129

15 March 1757: John Dyer published his georgic poem about...

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15 March 1757

John Dyer published his georgic poem about sheep-farming and woollen manufacture, The Fleece. He died the same year, by mid-December.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 402-15
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
38-9 and n2
Larsen, Kathryn. “Virtual Textile Workers”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 19 Apr. 2001.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 414 nn7, 8