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18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...

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18 April 1835

After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in the House of Commons , the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb , a Whig) was formed.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 205

7 June 1837: The London Working Men's Association issued...

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7 June 1837

The London Working Men's Association issued a Six Point petition in conjunction with six Radical MPs.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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January 1975: Britain lifted its direct rule from Northern...

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January 1975

Britain lifted its direct rule from Northern Ireland, only to re-impose it in May.
Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2026, 10 vols.
8: 464-5, 466

January 1794: The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began...

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January 1794

The Protestant Dissenter's Magazine began publication: although it was moderate rather than radical, it took a strong line against the war with France.
Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.
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White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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31 October 1986: Guyanan-born Jan Shinebourne published her...

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31 October 1986

Guyanan-born Jan Shinebourne published her first novel, Timepiece.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

July 1853: Tsar Nicholas I sent Russian troops into...

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July 1853

Tsar Nicholas I sent Russian troops into the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
204

Edna Lyall

A highly popular writer, EL published eighteen novels or novellas between 1879 and 1902, as well as a play, an account of her childhood which she designed for young readers, and shorter pieces. Several of...
Edna Lyall Black and white photograph of Edna Lyall by the firm of G. P. Abraham of Keswick. She is shown from the shoulders up, wearing a black and white feather boa over a dress which apparently has a white and black pattern on the body and stripes on the sleeves, She has dark, wavy hair.

Ruth Fainlight

RF is a poet active since the mid twentieth century who says she is always either writing a poem or waiting with a variety of emotions for the next poem to announce itself. Other forms...

December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...

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December 1865

Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig as its first editor, and Charles Reade 's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Around 1866: In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers...

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Around 1866

In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers throughout the country defended their jobs against machine workers.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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1898: Frank Karslake founded the Guild of Women...

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1898

Frank Karslake founded the Guild of Women Binders , which operated as a loosely-knit federation of women bookbinders from various craft groups. It ran until 1904.
Gertz, Stephen J. “The Guild of Women Binders: Bound to be Great”. Booktryst, A Nest for Book Lovers, 25 Oct. 2011.

Charlotte Godley

CG is remembered for her only book: a posthumously published collection of travel letters about the early (mid-nineteenth-century) social life and landscape of New Zealand. Brief excerpts from her journals also survive.
Charlotte Godley Photograph of a head-and-shoulders sketch of Charlotte Godley, 1877, reproduced in "Letters from Early New Zealand", 1950. She is wearing a high-collared shirt, a bow round her neck fastened with a brooch (perhaps a cameo), and simple round earrings . Her hair is brushed back under a light lace cap.

1845: The Bradford Long Pledge Association, a working-class...

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1845

The Bradford Long Pledge Association , a working-class teetotal society, boasted 500 reformed drunks among its 2000 members.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1 July 1890: The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System...

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1 July 1890

The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System began processing data for the American census. This first mechanized census took five years less processing time than the census of 1880.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
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16 May 2007: Dame Mary Douglas, pioneering anthropologist...

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16 May 2007

Dame Mary Douglas , pioneering anthropologist and author, died in London at the age of eighty-six.
“Obituaries. Professor Dame Mary Douglas”. Times Online, 18 May 2007.
Martin, Douglas. “Dame Mary Douglas, 86, a Wide-Ranging Anthropologist, Is Dead”. New York Times, 22 May 2007.

Julia Strachey

JS published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge writes in her introduction to JS 's memoir that when she died, after a long...

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.

12 November 1975: The UK's Sex Discrimination Act legislated...

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12 November 1975

The UK's Sex Discrimination Act legislated against non-contractual discrimination on the basis of sex, and established the Equal Opportunities Commission to monitor progress.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Byrne, Eileen M. Women and Education. Tavistock Publications, 1978.
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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.

: This was the peak period in France for shaving...

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Summer 1944

This was the peak period in France for shaving the heads of women as a punishment and humiliation for purportedly collaborating with the German occupying troops.
Guardian Weekly.
(2-8 November 2000): 30

19 January 1771: French parlements, the sovereign court of...

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19 January 1771

French parlements , the sovereign court of Justice in Paris and thirteen other centres, were abolished by Louis XV .
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
10: 849
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
211

1765: Joseph Priestley published his Chart of Biography,...

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1765

Joseph Priestley published his Chart of Biography, a diagram measuring two by three feet, showing the overlapping time-spans of the lives of historical figures.
Sheps, Arthur. “Joseph Priestley’s Time Charts: The Use and Teaching of History by Rational Dissent in late Eighteenth-Century England”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 135-54.
140, 142-3

1991: Much discussion was provoked by Ridley Scott's...

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1991

Much discussion was provoked by Ridley Scott 's film Thelma and Louise, which depicts two women walking out of their domestic routine into a life of crime and freedom.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
507

1972: Activist women's groups continued to spring...

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1972

Activist women's groups continued to spring up in Britain this year; London acquired the Radical Feminists and the Women's Film Group .
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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28 August 1858: Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the...

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28 August 1858

Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the British Medical Journal on a new medical therapy involving morphine injections through a hypodermic syringe.
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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