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1872: The Society of Female Artists changed its...

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1872

The Society of Female Artists changed its name to Society of Lady Artists.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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March 1922: The Labour Party Conference declared that...

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March 1922

The Labour Party Conference declared that women still in wartime jobs should be paid at trade union rates and that all trade unions should support this aim.
Braybon, Gail. Women Workers in the First World War: The British Experience. Croom Helm; Barnes and Noble, 1981.
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Ellen Weeton: Biography

EW is remarkable as a letter-writer, diarist, and autobiographer. She also wrote reviews, poems, and essays.

23 December 1916: The Scottish Midwives' Act mandated a training...

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23 December 1916

The Scottish Midwives' Act mandated a training period of six months (or four for those with nursing qualifications).
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1916): 325, 335
Leap, Nicky, and Billie Hunter. The Midwife’s Tale: An Oral History from Handywoman to Professional Midwife. Scarlet Press, 1993.
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1875: The age of sexual consent for girls was raised...

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1875

The age of sexual consent for girls was raised to thirteen from twelve.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
87-9, 94-5

6 December 1718: Nicholas Rowe, playwright, translator, and...

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6 December 1718

Nicholas Rowe , playwright, translator, and editor of Shakespeare , died after four years in the post of Poet Laureate.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1751: There was published Beauty's Triumph: or,...

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1751

There was published Beauty's Triumph: or, The Superiority of the Fair Sex Invincibly Proved.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 41

Anne Devlin

AD , a playwright and screenwriter born in Northern Ireland, often writes about the impact of nationalist and Republican politics on women's private lives. Dream and memory also figure prominently in her work.
Anne Devlin Photograph of a portrait of Anne Devlin, shown from the shoulders up. The portrait is contained within a dark oval set against a white background, and white negative space is used to indicate her features and clothing. She is wearing a shawl that is closed by a button in the center, and a frilly bonnet frames her face.

1897: Alice Diehl published Musical Memories, the...

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1897

Alice Diehl published Musical Memories, the first of her two volumes of autobiography.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

23-4 October 1850: The first National Woman's Rights Convention...

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23-4 October 1850

The first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in the USA, at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
55-57, 302

1978: The National Women's Liberation Movement...

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1978

The National Women's Liberation Movement Conference held at Birmingham saw much polarising disagreement; it was the last such event in Britain to be national.
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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December 1922: Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her...

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December 1922

Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her post as a health visitor with Edmonton District Council , London, for telling mothers where to get birth control knowledge.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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1828: The East London Theatre reopened as the Brunswick...

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1828

The East London Theatre reopened as the Brunswick Theatre , only to collapse completely three days later.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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1633: John Donne's Poems were posthumously published...

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1633

John Donne 's Poems were posthumously published with his initials.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

19 June 1941: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later...

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19 June 1941

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later the Women's Royal Air Force) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS, later the Women's Royal Army Corps) were granted military status.
Goldman, Nancy Loring, and Richard Stites. “Great Britain and the World Wars”. Female Soldiers-Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Nancy Loring Goldman, Greenwood, 1982, pp. 21-46.
22, 30, 34
“WAAF Association Brief History”. Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Association, 7 June 2007.
“A Brief History of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Women’s Royal Army Corps”. WRAC Association.

1855: A halfpenny postal rate was introduced for...

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1855

A halfpenny postal rate was introduced for printed circulars; for letters the penny post remained in force.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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: The five pioneering female medical students...

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Spring 1870

The five pioneering female medical students at Edinburgh University were awarded significant honours.
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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11 August 1869: The Contagious Diseases Act was amended and...

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11 August 1869

The Contagious Diseases Act was amended and extended.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
1869: 562-4

5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...

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5 May 1816

John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt 's Examiner.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
279
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 May 2011

22-3 January 1879: Early in the Zulu War, British troops met...

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22-3 January 1879

Early in the Zulu War, British troops met with gory triumph and with disaster. Zulus wiped out a regiment at Isandlwana or Isandhlwana; ten miles away a hundred and fifty British soldiers defended a...

Elizabeth Thomas

ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings...
Elizabeth Thomas Title-page of Elizabeth Thomas's anonymous social-comment poem "The Metamorphosis of the Town", 1730.

11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela was freed from the South African...

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11 February 1990

Nelson Mandela was freed from the South African prison where he had been held for twenty-eight years; a few years later, in April 1994, he became the first president of the new, non-apartheid, South Africa...

1976: A step was taken towards medical use of Magnetic...

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1976

A step was taken towards medical use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging when Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University for the first time published the results of a MRI scan: of a human finger.
Smith, Alexandra. “Life-changing knowledge highlights from a half-century of university research”. Guardian Weekly, 14–20 July 2006, p. 29.
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1982: Mary Douglas pioneered anthropological work...

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1982

Mary Douglas pioneered anthropological work on environmentalism and risk analysis in her book Risk and Culture, written in collaboration with political scientist Aaron Wildavsky .
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
144, 300, 302

27 June 2017: Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion...

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27 June 2017

Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion monthly users.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.