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14 August 1941: American President F. D. Roosevelt and British...

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14 August 1941

American President F. D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill published the Atlantic Charter, pledging preservation of world freedom.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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Steinberg (248) lists the date of this event as 11 August...

1874: Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective...

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1874

Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective and Provident League to promote the organization of women workers in England.
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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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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1845: After this date, female Methodist preachers...

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1845

After this date, female Methodist preachers were very rare.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...

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By October 1754

Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Clara Codd

Clara Codd 's career in print spanned fifty years. Beginning in 1916 with her Theosophy for Very Little Children, she was a prolific writer of Theosophical texts. She also wrote poetry and an autobiography...
Clara Codd Monochrome studio portrait of Clara Codd, c. 1910. She is standing behind a table, a book in her left hand. She has a neutral expression, and wears a dark dress with white detail around the sleeves and on the lower half of the bodice, as well as a long bead necklace.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...

10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...

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10 April 1957

Playwright John Osborne 's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with Laurence Olivier playing the lead.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1910: British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett...

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1910

British-born American Frances Hodgson Burnett published a novel which she originally intended for adults, but which became a children's classic: The Secret Garden.
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.

3 January 1883: The UK began its administration of Egypt...

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3 January 1883

The UK began its administration of Egypt.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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Late June 2012: A Poetry Parnassus was held in London, bringing...

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Late June 2012

A Poetry Parnassus was held in London, bringing together poets from the more than two hundred countries that were due to send athletes one month later to compete in the Olympic Games.
Withey, Elizabeth. “Poetry far from home”. Edmonton Journal, 7 July 2012, pp. C1 - C2.
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October 1667: John Milton published his epic poem Paradise...

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October 1667

John Milton published his epic poem Paradise Lost, which he had begun dictating before the Restoration and entered in the Stationers' Register in August.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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1881: The weekly Lady's Pictorial magazine began...

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1881

The weekly Lady's Pictorial magazine began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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1927: Ptolemy type, based on a font used by Leonard...

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1927

Ptolemy type, based on a font used by Leonard Holle at Ulm in 1482, was first used in printing the Ashendene Press 's Don Quixote.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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1965: Barbara Castle (a Labour MP of twenty years'...

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1965

Barbara Castle (a Labour MP of twenty years' standing, and the future architect of the Equal Pay Act, 1970) became the first female minister of state on her appointment as Minister of Transport.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

14 March 1878: A Bill to restrain the licence of the Indian...

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14 March 1878

A Bill to restrain the licence of the Indian press was passed at Calcutta.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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30 April 1920: General Secretary Bowen of the United Postal...

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30 April 1920

General Secretary Bowen of the United Postal Workers wrote in The Post that whatever we get for women now, on the grounds of equality, will be at the expense of men.
Grint, Keith. “Women and Equality: The Acquisition of Equal Pay in the Post Office, 1870-1961”. Sociology, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1988, pp. 87-108.
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Grint, Keith. “Women and Equality: The Acquisition of Equal Pay in the Post Office, 1870-1961”. Sociology, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1988, pp. 87-108.
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9 March 1906: The Women's Labour League was founded by...

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9 March 1906

The Women's Labour League was founded by Mary Fenton MacPherson and Margaret MacDonald ; the WLL provided campaign support for Labour candidates but was not offically connected to the Labour Party until 1908.
Hannam, June. “Women and Politics”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, University College London Press, 1995, pp. 217-45.
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Collette, Christine. For Labour and For Women: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918. Manchester University Press, 1989.
Graves, Pamela M. Labour Women: Women in British Working-Class Politics, 1918-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

19 February 1945: 30,000 US Marines landed in Iwo Jima....

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19 February 1945

30,000 US Marines landed in Iwo Jima.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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13 March 1781: Astronomer William Herschel discovered the...

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13 March 1781

Astronomer William Herschel discovered the existence of the planet Uranus: he had already discovered several previously unknown comets, as his sister Caroline did soon afterwards.
Radford, Tim. “Light fantastic at the end of the universe”. Guardian Weekly, 1 Mar. 2000, p. 19.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Georgette Heyer

GH was prolific in historical, mostly Regency, romances. She also wrote modern novels (which, however, she later suppressed as unsatisfactory to her), essays, and short stories, and published eleven detective novels written in collaboration with...
Georgette Heyer Black-and-white close-up photo of Georgette Heyer. Looking down, she wears a beaded necklace and her hair is bobbed.

1859: On the death of his father, Ferdinand II,...

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1859

On the death of his father, Ferdinand II , Francis II succeeded him as King of Sicily.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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21 May 1868: Sabine Baring-Gould's first novel, Through...

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21 May 1868

Sabine Baring-Gould 's first novel, Through Flood and Flame, was published: it describes his marriage to a mill girl.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1993: The annual Turner Prize for art went to Rachel...

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1993

The annual Turner Prize for art went to Rachel Whiteread for her model of the space enclosed by the walls of a house.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1760: The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de...

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1760

The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de Saussure , natural scientist, visited Chamonix and offered a reward for the first successful ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc.
Nardin, Jane. “A Meeting on the Mer de Glace: Frankenstein and the history of Alpine mountaineering”. Womens Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 441-9.
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1911: Jane Brownlow wrote the Women's Local Government...

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1911

Jane Brownlow wrote the Women's Local Government Society handbook, Women's Work in Local Government.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
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