Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Before August, 1907: The Imperial College of Science, Technology...
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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Billett, H. “Engineering”. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986, edited by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson, Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. 161-82.
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May 1704: Swift anonymously published, together, his...
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May 1704
Swift
anonymously published, together, his first major works: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, written about eight years earlier.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
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November 1894: Walter Arnold imported the first Benz car...
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November 1894
Walter Arnold
imported the first Benz
car into England and manufactured the first English cars at East Peckham, Kent, based on Benz's model.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Richardson, Kenneth, and C. N. O’Gallagher. The British Motor Industry 1896-1939. Macmillan, 1977.
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By September 1935: There were two million unemployed in Britain,...
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By September 1935
There were two million unemployed in Britain, with one-and-a-half million more on Poor Law Relief, and the numbers still increasing.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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1867: Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone...
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1867
Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone
(father of Eleanor Rathbone
) published a book arguing the necessity of organized rather than random acts of charity.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
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13 November 1775: American troops occupied Montreal; three...
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13 November 1775
American troops occupied Montreal; three weeks later they besieged Quebec.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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Author profile
Charlotte Nooth
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, whose life is extemely obscure, produced three published works: a poetry volume and a remarkable novel (both issued within two years during the early nineteenth century) and the translation of a French work...
20 March 1974: Princess Anne and her husband Mark Phillips...
“1974: Kidnap attempt on Princess Anne”. BBC News: On This Day, 20 Mar. 1974.
1901: The first wireless telegraphy between ships...
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1901
The first wireless telegraphy between ships took place between the British ship Lake Champlain and the Cunard
liner Lucania.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1895: Not Counting the Cost, a novel in which Tasma...
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1895
Not Counting the Cost, a novel in which Tasma
explored issues of culture and nationality, appeared two years before her death.
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.
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.
1966: Three women in the UK died after attempted...
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1966
Three women in the UK died after attempted clinical abortions by the saline injection method, in which amniotic fluid is replaced by hypertonic saline.
Hindell, Keith, and Madeleine Simms. Abortion Law Reformed. Peter Owen, 1971.
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Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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6 September 1715: The first Jacobite Rebellion began when John...
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6 September 1715
The first Jacobite Rebellion began when John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar
, raised his standard. He also issued a proclamation at Braemar, Scotland, declaring that James III
was the rightful king.
Gregg, Edward. “The Jacobite Career of John, Earl of Mar”. Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689-1759, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, John Donald, 1982, pp. 179-94.
1974: Erin Pizzey published with Penguin her book...
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1974
Erin Pizzey
published with Penguin
her book on marital violence, Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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10 October 1887: George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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1846: Richard M. Hoe, an American, patented the...
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1846
Richard M. Hoe
, an American, patented the first successful rotary press, in which type and paper revolve together continuously on separate cylinders.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
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September 2006: J. T. LeRoy, the author of earthy and outspoken...
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September 2006
J. T. LeRoy
, the author of earthy and outspoken bestselling novels such as The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things and Sarah, who had been assumed to be male, was revealed to be...
1871: At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx was...
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1871
At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx
was already acting as her father
's personal secretary, as well as travelling with him to various international conferences.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...
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1725
Allan Ramsay
established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 203-16.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
25 March 1645: In the first case of witchcraft managed by...
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25 March 1645
In the first case of witchcraft managed by Matthew Hopkins
, Elizabeth Clarke
of Manningtree in Essex (who had probably been deprived of sleep during interrogation) confessed to using familiars.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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16 June 1836: The London Working Men's Association was...
