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7 September 1819: In the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre,...

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7 September 1819

In the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, a bitter cartoon was printed by George Cruikshank , entitled A Strong Proof of the Flourishing State of the Country.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Probably by mid-1647: Matthew Hopkins published in London A Discovery...

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Probably by mid-1647

Matthew Hopkins published in LondonA Discovery of Witches in . . . Norfolk.
Earle, Peter. “English Society”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 23-47.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
388

December 1854: The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began...

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December 1854

The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began rapidly to decline when Henry Colburn 's control ceased.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 169, 302

1969: Patrick Steptoe reported on the success of...

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1969

Patrick Steptoe reported on the success of laparoscopic sterilization, a procedure using a telescope-like instrument called a laparoscope.
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
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By September 1955: Baby and Child Care, by the US physician...

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By September 1955

Baby and Child Care, by the US physician Benjamin Spock , was published in the UK by Bodley Head : among its middle-class readership it inaugurated a new era of child-centred parenting.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1237-8

Ann Batten Cristall

ABC 's single book of poems is a remarkable text of women's Romanticism.

October 1873: Emily Davies and Elizabeth Garrett, the first...

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October 1873

Emily Davies and Elizabeth Garrett , the first women elected to the London School Board , resigned.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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October 1846: The Westminster Review changed its name to...

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October 1846

The Westminster Review changed its name to the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 544

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.
Wees, William C. Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde. University of Toronto Press, 1972.
19, 162-79, 213-27

4 July 1828: The House of Lords affirmed Lord Eldon's...

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4 July 1828

The House of Lords affirmed Lord Eldon 's epoch-making decision which awarded custody of three children whose mother was dead to the mother's sisters instead of to the father.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 183-209

6 October 1923: Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at the Mount...

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6 October 1923

Edwin Hubble , an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Laboratory in California, first photographed the galaxy Andromeda, and discovered a variable star which enabled measurement of the distance between Andromeda and Earth.
Cowen, Ron. “Galaxy Hunters”. National Geographic, Vol.
203
, No. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 2-29.
11, 16

10 December 1951: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft from Great Britain...

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10 December 1951

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft from Great Britain and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton of Ireland were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the artifical acceleration of atomic particles.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

After 25 May 1895: Following the conviction of Oscar Wilde,...

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After 25 May 1895

Following the conviction of Oscar Wilde , Edward Carpenter 's publisher broke his contract to publish Love's Coming of Age, after discovering that Carpenter had privately printed a pamphlet entitled Homogenic Love.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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December 1953: Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy,...

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December 1953

Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy, published in Chicago. The first issue featured a previously unpublished nude photo of Marilyn Monroe .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Mary Palmer

MP wrote, in the earlier part of the eighteenth century, some lively dialogues which may be the earliest literary writing to use the local dialect of Devon. They remained unpublished for nearly a hundred...
Mary Palmer Title-page of Mary Palmer's "A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect", probably written in the mid eighteenth century and published in 1837.

1961: Janet Frame's novel Faces in the Water was...

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1961

Janet Frame 's novel Faces in the Water was published in New Zealand and the USA. British publication followed early the next year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1948: Joan Sutherland published The High Hills,...

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1948

Joan Sutherland published The High Hills, a novel that figures Nazi anti-Semitism in the background.
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.

Mid 1860s: The high incidence of venereal disease in...

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Mid 1860s

The high incidence of venereal disease in Britain is evidenced by the fact that it accounted for one in three of all cases of illness among soldiers.
Kennedy, Meegan. “Syphilis and the Hysterical Female: the limits of realism in Sarah Grands The Heavenly TwinsWomens Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 259-80.
260

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.
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1972: Worldwide sales of the Volkswagen Beetle...

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1972

Worldwide sales of the Volkswagen Beetle topped the sales of the most popular car to this date, the Model-T Ford.
Evans, Richard J. “Autoerotische”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 17, 12 Sept. 2013, pp. 35-7.
35

October 1620: Francis Bacon published his influential Novum...

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October 1620

Francis Bacon published his influential Novum Organum, a Latin work of science and scientific theory; it formed the second part of his Instauratio Magna.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
238
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/.

1893: The Exeter Technical and University Extension...

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1893

The Exeter Technical and University Extension College was founded.
Clapp, Brian W. The University of Exeter: A History. University of Exeter, 1982.
4-7, 15, 18-20, 27, 34, 63, 116, 204, 253
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Second, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
127, 164
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
252-3

From 1920: The Ministry of Education instituted a scheme...

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From 1920

The Ministry of Education instituted a scheme of state studentships: grants for university education based on the student's results in Higher School Certificate (including special scholarship papers).
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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11 November 1918: At 11 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh...

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11 November 1918

At 11 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month), the Armistice, signed at Compiègne, went into effect, officially ending World War I.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
230
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Hogarth Press, 1979.
325, 328

3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...

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3 December 1751

Christopher Smart , as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act Horace Walpole called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 276-7, 313