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1867: A new Vaccination Act brought in one of the...

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1867

A new Vaccination Act brought in one of the most coercive public health laws to date. It was followed by further, similar legislation in 1871.
Scott, Anne L. “Physical Purity Feminism and State Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century England”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
8
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 625-53.
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1961: The Electrical Trades Union was expelled...

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1961

The Electrical Trades Union was expelled from the both the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labour Party amid allegations of malpractice and ballot-rigging on the part of its Communist leadership.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
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Akwaeke Emezi became the first non-binary author to be longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

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4 March 2019

Akwaeke Emezi became the first non-binary author to be longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, for their novel Freshwater.
“Announcing the Women’s Prize 2019 Longlist”. Women’s Prize for Fiction, https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-womens-prize-for-fiction-2019-longlist.
“2019 Prize”. Women’s Prize for Fiction, https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2019-prize.
 

June 1940: Lord Beaverbrook appealed for scrap metal;...

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June 1940

Lord Beaverbrook appealed for scrap metal; women were encouraged to show their patriotism by donating their pots, kettles, pram wheels, and other metal household objects.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology, 149
Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
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Briggs, Susan. Keep Smiling Through. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
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25 June 1857: Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du...

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25 June 1857

Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du mal, dedicating it to Théophile Gautier .
Culler, Jonathan, and Charles Baudelaire. “Introduction”. The Flowers of Evil, translated by. James McGowan and James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
25 June 2008

19 December 1852: George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen,...

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19 December 1852

George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen , a Peelite, became Prime Minister of a Liberal-Peelite coalition government .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1889: Herminie Cadolle opened Maison Cadolle, a...

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1889

Herminie Cadolle opened Maison Cadolle , a Paris lingerie shop from which she sold what is often credited as the first modern bra.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...

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4 November 1924

Stanley Baldwin (Conservative ) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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May 1920: The Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (formerly...

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May 1920

The Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (formerly the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ) was disbanded.
Crosthwait, Elizabeth. “The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1914-1918”. Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words: Women’s History and Women’s Work, edited by Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover, Tiptree, 1986.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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From about 1899 to 1904: The Women's Co-operative Guild focussed on...

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From about 1899 to 1904

The Women's Co-operative Guild focussed on extending the principles of co-operation to the poor.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
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1924: Helen Hamilton this year published both her...

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1924

Helen Hamilton this year published both her first poetry collection, entitled Hope and Other Poems, and also (through Blackwell ) Great Meddow: Studies of Village Life.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

June 1770: Russia (under Catherine the Great) demonstrated...

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June 1770

Russia (under Catherine the Great ) demonstrated its new power by crushing Turkey in a naval victory.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
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22 October 1934: King George V opened the new Cambridge University...

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22 October 1934

King George V opened the new Cambridge University Library designed by Sir Giles Scott .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1892: The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee...

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1892

The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee to investigate the work of midwives throughout the country.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Witz, Anne. “Patriarchal Relations and Patterns of Sex Segregation in the Medical Division of Labour”. Gender Segregation at Work, edited by Sylvia Walby, Open University Press, 1988, pp. 74-90.
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6 April-28 September 1924: Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant...

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6 April-28 September 1924

Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant Erik Nelson made the two first successful flights around the world.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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14 February 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran declared...

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14 February 1989

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran declared a fatwa or death sentence against Salman Rushdie on account of the allegedly blasphemous treatment of the prophet Mohammed in his novel The Satanic Verses.
“1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Dec. 1990.

December 2009: The closing of the Edinburgh publishing firm...

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December 2009

The closing of the Edinburgh publishing firm of Chambers was a milestone in the replacement of printed reference books by electronic sources.
Wilcockson, Nigel. “’Tis all in Pieces”. The Author, Vol.
121
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2010, pp. 15-16.
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October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...

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October 1907

Votes for Women, the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union , began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
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1953: Mary Raleigh Richardson published her autobiography,...

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1953

Mary Raleigh Richardson published her autobiography, Laugh a Defiance, which relates her experiences as a suffragist.
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.

December 1860: Following on the heels of the successful...

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December 1860

Following on the heels of the successful Cornhill Magazine, publisher John Maxwell created Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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By 1834: Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used...

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By 1834

Amalgam, a mercury alloy, was being used as a material for filling teeth.
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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1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...

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1844

The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers 's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace .
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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Yeo, Richard. Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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Hill, Rosemary. “Snakes and Leeches”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 1, 4 Jan. 2018, pp. 23-5.
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29 November 2010: Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina...

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29 November 2010

Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina died at the age of seventy-three.
“Bella Akhmadulina”. Edmonton Journal, 2 Jan. 2011, p. E7.

1896: William Heise's The Kiss featured the cinema's...

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1896

William Heise 's The Kiss featured the cinema's first on-film kiss: the participants were May Irwin and John C. Rice .
Frémaux, Thierry. “Film censor as cinephile”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Dec. 2001, p. 30.
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Joan Aiken

JA was a popular and successful later twentieth-century writer of short stories and longer fictions for children, most of which are fantasies or have strong supernatural or mystery elements. She also wrote adult novels (both...
Joan Aiken Black and white photo of Joan Aiken. She stands in front of iron railings like a park fence, with trees behind it. She wears a turtleneck, blazer, and necklace, and has a stern or serious look.