Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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8 August 1947 : Achille Gaggia patented an improved version...
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8 August 1947
Achille Gaggia
patented an improved version of the espresso coffee machine, using a revolutionary lever-operated piston which gave it a modernistic, high-engineering appearance.
Dean, Adam. “The Founding Fathers of Espresso”. Whole Latte Love.
July 2010: BPP University College of Professional Studies...
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July 2010
BPP University College of Professional Studies
was awarded the status of a university or degree-granting body: only the second private or for-profit organization of this kind in the UK.
Hotson, Howard. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 11, 2 June 2011, p. 19.
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26 November 1607: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear was registered...
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26 November 1607
Shakespeare
's tragedy King Lear was registered with the Stationers' Company
for publication in a quarto edition the following year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
313
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41.
40
13 June 1944: Germany launched V1 or V-1 rockets against...
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13 June 1944
Germany launched V1 or V-1 rockets against England; six people were killed at Bethnal Green. Unlike conventional bombers, rockets attacked by day as well as by night.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
189
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
393
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
562
Hopper, Dennis R., and Karine Hopper. Email about Doodlebugs to Karine Hopper. 1 May 2001.
4 May 1975: Feminists working in Cornell University's...
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4 May 1975
Feminists working in Cornell University
's Human Affairs programme staged a public speak-out on discrimination against women in the workplace; they coined the term sexual harassment to describe objectionable actions ranging from inappropriate to violent.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
279-94
23 August 1960: The satirical review Beyond the Fringe, launched...
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23 August 1960
The satirical review Beyond the Fringe, launched at the Edinburgh Festival, inaugurated a new style of surreal and irreverent topical comedy in Britain.
Bennett, Alan. “What I did in 1999”. London Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 3-8.
3
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 August 2010
1820: David Jones of the Methodist London Missionary...
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
269
25 July 1886: Following the general election of this month,...
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25 July 1886
Following the general election of this month, the Marquess of Salisbury
(Conservative
) formed the British government for a second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
20 November 1938: The 1916 Veterans' Association of Ireland...
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20 November 1938
The 1916 Veterans' Association
of Ireland passed a motion protesting against the growing menace of alien immigration, which targeted Jewish refugees.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
39
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Mary Prince
MP
, whose text was published in 1831 after she came to London from the Caribbean, became well-known as an early nineteenth-century writer of detailed slave autobiography.
JW
, writing in the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, has been acclaimed by some critics and savaged by others for her provocative and outspoken novels, in which she uncompromisingly confronts cultural notions of...
Chartists were tried at Liverpool, York, Bradford, Barnsley and Taunton.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40-1
August 1921: A man was summoned to appear in court for...
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August 1921
A man was summoned to appear in court for the crime of wishing aloud that he could give the king a taste of working life: make him do the same as miners.
Porter, Bernard. “How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism”. London Review of Books, 1 June 2000, pp. 27-8.
27
29 June 1868: A bill introduced in the House of Lords proposed...
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29 June 1868
A bill introduced in the House of Lords
proposed extending the Contagious Diseases Acts to London, and any other borough that chose to follow.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
114
1 September-6 October 1939: Germany invaded Poland, giving the world...
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1 September-6 October 1939
Germany invaded Poland, giving the world its first demonstration of Blitzkrieg or all-out war tactics.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
22-3
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
44-7, 54
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Gollancz, 1985.
31
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
73
1843: Edgar Allan Poe published The Pit and the...
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1843
Edgar Allan Poe
published The Pit and the Pendulum, whose suspense and threatened horror have made it one of his best-known stories.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
30 March 1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed by Austria,...
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30 March 1856
The Treaty of Paris was signed by Austria, Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, bringing an end to the Crimean War.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 210-14
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
69
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
202-3
Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - xlviii.
xlii
December 1952: The last full-scale smog (fog loaded with...
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December 1952
The last full-scale smog (fog loaded with smoke) descended on London; in three days there were 4,000 deaths in excess of normal figures. This was a major contributing factor in the Clean Air Act...
1831-1846: Pope Gregory XVI established a framework...
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1831-1846
Pope Gregory XVI
established a framework for organized Jesuit
activity, formally creating a huge number of vicariates across the world.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
338, 342-3
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Freya Stark
Famous as a twentieth-century explorer and traveller, FS
was also a prominent travel-writer, essayist, autobiographer, letter-writer, geographic historian, photo journalist, and cartographer. Reprints of Stark's texts, along with recent biographies by Molly Izzard
(1993) and...
22-3 January 1879: Early in the Zulu War, British troops met...
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22-3 January 1879
Early in the Zulu War, British troops met with gory triumph and with disaster. Zulus wiped out a regiment at Isandlwana or Isandhlwana; ten miles away a hundred and fifty British soldiers defended a...
28 December 1893: The Woman's Herald ceased publication in...
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28 December 1893
The Woman's Herald ceased publication in London, before resuming in January 1894 as the Woman's Signal.
