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1188: King Henry II bought land next to Newgate...

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1188

King Henry II bought land next to Newgate (the gate looking west from Old London to Westminster). Newgate prison occupied this site until 1881.
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.

By February 1811: The craze for sentiment was extended (not...

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By February 1811

The craze for sentiment was extended (not without irony) to writing for children, in Felissa, or the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment written by Charles Lamb .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 22 (1811): 223
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

By April 1976: Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering...

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By April 1976

Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering work of literary criticism entitled Literary Women.
Coffey, Marilyn et al. “April 1976 Newsletter”. New York Woman’s Literary Salon, Apr. 1976.

6 May 2019: A frightening forty-page Summary for Policy...

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6 May 2019

A frightening forty-page Summary for Policy Makers was issued in Paris ahead of a 1,500-page Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services .
Leahy, Stephen. “One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns”. National Geographic, 6 May 2019.

18 December 1865: The 13th Constitutional Amendment abolished...

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18 December 1865

The 13th Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
206

17 September 1954: William Golding's first novel, The Lord of...

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17 September 1954

William Golding 's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 September 2009

1986: An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act...

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1986

An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act equalized the retirement age (though not the age for receipt of the state pension) between the sexes, and allowed women to work night shifts.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1900: Oxford University Press published The Oxford...

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1900

Oxford University Press published The Oxford Book of English Verse, selected and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

November 1914: At Lilla Brockway's suggestion, her husband,...

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November 1914

At Lilla Brockway 's suggestion, her husband, Fenner Brockway , wrote a letter that he printed in the Labour Leader calling for all war-resisters to contact him; the No-Conscription Fellowship was established by early 1915.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berkman, Joyce Avrech. Pacifism in England, 1914-1939. Yale University, 1967, http://U of A HSS.
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1888: The Diploma in Public Health was developed;...

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1888

The Diploma in Public Health was developed; it became a mandatory requirement for all Medical Officers of Health.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
63
Woods, Robert, and John Woodward. “Mortality, Poverty and the Environment”. Urban Disease and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Robert Woods and John Woodward, St Martin’s Press, 1984, pp. 19-36.
78

1 November 1915: The Women's International League (British...

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1 November 1915

The Women's International League (British Section) was founded at a conference held at Westminster.
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
2: 1197
Liddington, Jill. “The Women’s Peace Crusade: The History of a Forgotten Campaign”. Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb, edited by Dorothy, 1923 - 2011 Thompson, Virago, 1983, pp. 180 - 98, 244.
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1 August 1976: The Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

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1 August 1976

The Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago gained their independence from Britain.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
414

13 February 1923: The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff,...

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13 February 1923

The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff, Wales; it made its first broadcast in Welsh on 8 November.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1758: The first subscribers' or metropolitan library...

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1758

The first subscribers' or metropolitan library opened, in Liverpool.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Charlotte Stopes

CS was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare . In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely...
Charlotte Stopes Black-and-white photo of Charlotte Stopes, 1953. Looking off-camera, she is against a tree fabric background and has her arms crossed over what could be a table top. She wears a hat with a feather in it.

2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...

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2 August 1858

Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company to the British Crown after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army...

15 August 1947: British rule on the Indian subcontinent ended...

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15 August 1947

British rule on the Indian subcontinent ended in independence for India and Pakistan (which became Dominions within the Commonwealth), but also in Partition, which divided the new countries along religious lines.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Editor Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber, 1976.
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“The Legacy Events Index: India - Pakistan Partition”. The Legacy Project.

1867: English and French proposals for an English...

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1867

English and French proposals for an English Channel tunnel were submitted to Napoleon III .
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
114

1992: US advice columnist Ann Landers conducted...

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1992

US advice columnist Ann Landers conducted a poll of her readers and found that fully 95% of gay or lesbian respondents said they were happy with their sexuality.
Toth, Emily. “Common-sense columnist”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xix
, No. 12, Sept. 2002, pp. 6-7.
6

1832: The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown...

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1832

The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown was re-issued in book form under a new title, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy; Sent From the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at...

Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...

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Earlier 1855

Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1431: 376
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
355, 667
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
147

2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...

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2 May 1611

A committee of bishops completed and issued the English Bible translation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 May 2008
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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3 May 1687: The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill's...

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3 May 1687

The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill 's The Young Secretary's Guide: or, A Speedy Help to Learning, a manual of letter-writing and drafting business documents: published this year, it had ten editions by 1699.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

26 August 1931: The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald...

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26 August 1931

The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald organized a National Coalition government; many members of his party felt this to be a betrayal.
Young, Toby. “What U.S. needs is a Queen”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A17.
A17
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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