Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1816: A Parliamentary Select Committee heard evidence...
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1816
A Parliamentary Select Committee heard evidence about the comparative efficiency of different kinds of police force.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Elizabeth Joscelin
The most learned as well as the most self-deprecating of the seventeenth-century writers of mother's legacies, EJ
composed her deeply religious text when pregnant with her first child, in the belief (accurate, as it...
1930: The Ivriah School for Girls was established...
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1930
The Ivriah School for Girls
was established in Manchester, increasing the opportunities for girls to be educated in the Jewish faith and culture.
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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1684: John Banks's tragedy The Island Queens (which...
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1684
John Banks
's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured Mary Queen of Scots
as heroine and Elizabeth I
as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.
Dobson, Michael. “Lost Mother”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 10-13.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 322, 323
7 September 1912: Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable...
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7 September 1912
Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable ladies' magazine, ceased publication in London.
By 1761: Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or,...
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By 1761
Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or, New Atlantis, a directory of prostitutes, was being printed annually under this title.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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1796: Joseph Priestley published at Philadelphia...
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1796
Joseph Priestley
published at PhiladelphiaUnitarianism Explained and Defended, in a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia.
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.
22 May 1455: The Wars of the Roses broke out between the...
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22 May 1455
The Wars of the Roses broke out between the houses of York and Lancaster, both claimants to the English throne.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Griffiths, Ralph Alan. “The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 166-22.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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1815-22: Jean Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des animaux...
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1815-22
Jean Lamarck
's Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrates), published over these years, was the first work to distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates.
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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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
22 November 1697: For this day Dryden wrote his Alexander's...
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22 November 1697
For this day Dryden
wrote his Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique, An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day; it was performed to music by Jeremiah Clarke
.
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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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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1 February 1960: Four black students in Greensboro, North...
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1 February 1960
Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, protested segregation by staging a sit-in at the Woolworths
lunch-counter when they were refused service.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Harriman, W. Averell. The Twentieth Century: An Almanac. Editors Ferrell, Robert H. and John S. Bowman, World Almanac Publications, 1985.
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11 December 1859: Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine was acquitted...
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11 December 1859
Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine
was acquitted of the murder of her newborn infant.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1944: Painter Francis Bacon made his first impression...
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1944
Painter Francis Bacon
made his first impression on the London art scene with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
Bell, Julian, b. 1952. “Get Out”. London Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2000, pp. 19-20.
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23 February 1820: In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of...
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23 February 1820
In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of revolutionaries picked this day to assassinate members of the Cabinet
at a private dinner; the plot failed.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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January 1967: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association...
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January 1967
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
was founded, with an eye to the long-standing discrimination exercised by Northern Ireland Unionists against Roman Catholics (and to the gains won by the US Civil Rights movement).
“Northern Ireland Civil Rights’ Movement”. BBC: History: Wars and Conflict: The Troubles: Origins/Civil Rights.
26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...
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26 June 1846
The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel
's Conservative
government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League
and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in...
13 February 1815: Caius Gracchus, a tragedy by James Sheridan...
Meeks, Leslie Howard. Sheridan Knowles and the Theatre of His Time. Principia Press, 1933.
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1766: At the previously unlicensed Haymarket Theatre...
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1766
At the previously unlicensed Haymarket TheatreSamuel Foote
was awarded a licence to put on plays during the summer, when the patent or fully-licensed theatres were closed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
11 October 1845: A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's...
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11 October 1845
A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg
's work The Principia was published in London; this form of spiritualism soon became popular in elite intellectual circles.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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1939: Flashing turn signals were developed for...
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1939
Flashing turn signals were developed for cars; they gradually replaced indicators which swung out from the car body, but did not become compulsory until 1 January 1954.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1885: A proponent of the rational dress movement,...
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1885
A proponent of the rational dress movement, Mrs Ada Ballin
, published The Science of Dress.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
