Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1927: English director Alfred Hitchcock was recognized...
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1927
English director Alfred Hitchcock
was recognized as a film talent and hired at British International Pictures
, which had built studios at Elstree with the aim of becoming the British equivalent to Hollywood.
Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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After 15 May 1930: The world's first airline stewardesses (all...
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After 15 May 1930
The world's first airline stewardesses (all eight of them nurses) worked for the American firm Boeing Air Transport
(later United Airlines
) for three years before other airlines adopted the idea.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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17 March 1968: In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration...
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17 March 1968
In London's biggest anti-Vietnam-War demonstration so far, about 10,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Trafalgar Square before marching to Grosvenor Square, where violence broke out.
“1968: Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent”. BBC News: On This Day, 17 Mar. 1968.
By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...
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By July 1813
Byron
published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
21 (1813): 299-309
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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1625: Barbados was settled by the British....
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1625
Barbados was settled by the British.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 557
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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1896: The Young Men's Missionary Association became...
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
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By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novel Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
Shulman, Nicola. “Some Consolations of the Single State”. Times Literary Supplement, 1 Nov. 1996, p. 26.
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Author profile
Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS
is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...
1853: Scottish physician Alexander Wood modified...
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1853
Scottish physician Alexander Wood
modified the point of the medical syringe needle and created the hypodermic syringe.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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3-30 April 1735: Sir John Barnard's bill for regulating the...
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3-30 April 1735
Sir John Barnard
's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons
, but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: xlix-l, 411-12
9 August 1854: Henry David Thoreau published Walden, or...
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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13 August 1849: Hungary was reconquered for the Hapsburgs...
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13 August 1849
Hungary was reconquered for the Hapsburgs when the Hungarian army surrendered to the Russian commander.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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8 February 1777: The first volume appeared in Edinburgh of...
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8 February 1777
The first volume appeared in Edinburgh of Hugh Blair
's five volumes of exquisitely sentimental
Buchan, James. “That sh—te Creech”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 13-14.
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and extraordinarily popular
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sermons. London publication followed on 15 April.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1684: The first edition appeared of the sex and...
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1684
The first edition appeared of the sex and fertility manual Aristotle's Masterpiece.
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.
1678-80: St Mary's Church inside Fort St George in...
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1678-80
St Mary's Church inside Fort St George in Madras, on the Coromandel Coast of India, was built: the first British and first Anglican church in India.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
8: 198
1930: In the largest book sale in history so far,...
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1930
In the largest book sale in history so far, the Seventy-first Congress of the United States paid 1.5 million dollars for the Volbehr collection of 3,000 volumes of incunabula.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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1887: L. L. Zamenhof published the first textbook...
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1887
L. L. Zamenhof
published the first textbook of Esperanto.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
445
Forster, Peter G. The Esperanto Movement. Mouton, 1982.
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July 1917: Printers began charging for the rental of...
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July 1917
Printers began charging for the rental of standing type and the storage of unbound sheets.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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1893: British singer and composer Clara Kathleen...
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1893
British singer and composer Clara Kathleen Rogers
published The Philosophy of Singing.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
1953: Queen Elizabeth College, London University,...
“Higher education for women at King’s”. King’s College London: History of the College: Dates, 1850-1899: The Ladies’ Department of King’s opens in Kensington Square.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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1045: Saint Margaret, who became the wife of King...
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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November 1896: The Publishers Council objected to series...
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November 1896
The Publishers Council
objected to series such as Popular New Novels, The Masterpiece Library, and the Review of Reviews, all of which published abridgements of popular novels and were edited by W. T. Stead
.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
