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1822: Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce...

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1822

Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce of France produced the first fixed positive image that could be called a photograph.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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1914: When a village school run by socialist Annie...

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1914

When a village school run by socialist Annie Higden and her husband at Burston in Norfolk was closed by the authorities, their supporters organised a strike.
Younge, Gary. “Party of competing ambitions”. Guardian Weekly, 2–8 Mar. 2000, p. 13.
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Late 1932 into 1933: The USSR (as well as some of its client states)...

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Late 1932 into 1933

The USSR (as well as some of its client states) experienced a catastrophic famine, precipitated by a failure of the harvest, but exacerbated by the forcible imposition of collective farming and liquidation of the class...

1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...

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1835

Helen Faucit made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden Theatre, aged eighteen.
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
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October 1960: US Senator John F. Kennedy unveiled his plan...

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October 1960

US Senator John F. Kennedy unveiled his plan for the Peace Corps , an organization recruiting young Americans for temporary volunteer work in poor overseas countries.
Borger, Julian. “Putting bandwidth before BandAids?”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Sept. 2000, p. 24.
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6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .
Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, 22 Apr. 2010, pp. 24-6.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ian Jacob
Paulu, Burton. Television and Radio in the United Kingdom. University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
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17 February 1959: Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang Lucia...

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17 February 1959

Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang Lucia in the Franco Zeffirelli version of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...

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29 May 1970

The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
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Between 1914 and 1918: During the First World War, the Workers'...

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Between 1914 and 1918

During the First World War, the Workers' War Emergency Committee was formed to address wartime labour issues.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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1667: The first of two London Building Acts after...

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1667

The first of two London Building Acts after on the Great Fire (the second followed in 1670) were a landmark in the regulating of urban construction. Their primary purpose was safety: wooden buildings were prohibited...

1931: Hamish Hamilton established his own publishing...

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1931

Hamish Hamilton established his own publishing house at 90 Great Russell Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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28 November 1727: After elections and the dissolution of the...

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28 November 1727

After elections and the dissolution of the previous parliament on 5 August, the new parliament (obligatory on the accession of a new sovereign ) was called for this date.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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1922: Helen Hamilton's Mountain Madness relates...

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1922

Helen Hamilton 's Mountain Madness relates her adventures climbing in the French Alps and the Lake District.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1450-1750: During these three centuries, around 100,000...

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1450-1750

During these three centuries, around 100,000 trials for witchcraft were held throughout Europe; eighty per cent of those accused were women, and half of them were condemned to death.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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18-22 October 1910: Dr Hawley Crippen, an American resident of...

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18-22 October 1910

Dr Hawley Crippen , an American resident of London, was found guilty of the murder of his wife, a music-hall actress known as Cora Turner . He was tracked down in the USA where...

July 1796: The explorer Mungo Park, abandoned and anxious...

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July 1796

The explorer Mungo Park , abandoned and anxious on the banks of the Niger River in what is now Mali, was taken in, housed and fed by African village women, who composed and sang...

After 18 February 1914: Leonard Woolf published his second novel,...

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After 18 February 1914

Leonard Woolf published his second novel, The Wise Virgins (which he had begun to write on his honeymoon). Quite different in genre from his first, it is a roman à clef reputedly presenting harsh caricatures...

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1754: The Royal College of Physicians made public...

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1754

The Royal College of Physicians made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu thirty-three years before.
Hopper, Karine. “Doctors, Ministers, and Women Novelists: The Effect of Print on the Inoculation Debate in the later Eighteenth Century”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.

Alice Thornton

AT is well known as a Restoration-period autobiographer whose several successive books of Meditations and Transactions of [her] life,
Anselment, Raymond A. “Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Sources of Alice Thornton’s Life”. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2005, pp. 135-55.
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while predominantly and earnestly religious in tone, also give a vivid and often horrifying account...
Alice Thornton Photograph of part of the title-page of Alice Thornton's autobiography, published in 1875 as "The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton , of East Newton, Co. York." Her signature is reproduced below the title.

By the end of 1938: The National Birth Control Association absorbed...

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By the end of 1938

The National Birth Control Association absorbed the Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics , as it had already absorbed the Workers' Birth Control Group , which had campaigned steadily throughout the 1920s.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Hall, Lesley. “Articulating abortion in interwar Britain”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 70, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, pp. 13-21.
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5 May 1718: The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three...

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5 May 1718

The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three supposed correspondents in favour of single women, who, they said, were wedded to Philosophy; which is indeed the most perfect State of Freedom.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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May 1866: Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded...

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May 1866

Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded by Margaret (Mrs Alfred) Gatty .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Ewing

12 March 1896: The Publishers Association was officially...

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12 March 1896

The Publishers Association was officially founded at a constitutional meeting in Stationers' Hall, London.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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Curwen, Peter. The UK Publishing Industry. Pergamon Press, 1981.
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Feltes, Norman N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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January 1964-May 1968: Abortifacient paste (Utus paste) was used...

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January 1964-May 1968

Abortifacient paste (Utus paste) was used in Surrey to induce abortions.
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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