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By 12 May 1877: The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch...

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By 12 May 1877

The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch cartoon on this date) was established as an alternative exhibition arena to the Royal Academy shows. It lasted until 1891.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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15 February 1942: Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese...

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15 February 1942

Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese forces.
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Ali, Tariq. “Bitter Chill of Winter”. London Review of Books, 19 Apr. 2001, pp. 18-27.
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By December 1753: Two anonymous works were published which...

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By December 1753

Two anonymous works were published which testified to the popularity of Richard Glover 's tragedy about Boadicea .
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Anne Ridler

AR was a twentieth-century poet and verse playwright whose work has been called metaphysical. She also edited and wrote introductions and commentary for literary works by others, produced translations of opera libretti, and left...

1834-1848: The number of advertisements placed in newspapers...

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1834-1848

The number of advertisements placed in newspapers between these years rose from 1,112,305 to 1,902,322.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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End of 1910: The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League...

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End of 1910

The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League and the Men's Committee for Opposing Female Suffrage amalgamated to form the National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage .
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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1930: Talcott Parsons published the first English...

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1930

Talcott Parsons published the first English translation of Max Weber 's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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.

Harriet Smythies

HS launched a forty-five-year career in 1835 with a romantic, historical, narrative poem. Her later poems, all of substantial length, deal with contemporary public events. She set her name to these (after the first) but...

1900: Agnes Shakespear or Shakespeare Higginson,...

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1900

Agnes Shakespear or Shakespeare Higginson , later Skrine, published (as Moira O'Neill) her Songs of the Glens of Antrim.
O Lochlainn, Colm. “Anglo-Irish Song-writers since Moore”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland Publications, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1950, pp. 1-22.
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1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .
Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.
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1906: The coachman in the family of Winifred Knox...

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1906

The coachman in the family of Winifred Knox (later Peck) pronounced on the subject of cars: Them things won't last; just a fad they are; won't last!
Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber, 1955.
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1933: The Anglican Group for the Ordination of...

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1933

The Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry of the Church was formed by three women at Midhurst in Sussex: Mollie Batten , Ruth Batten , and Margaret Roxburgh .
Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
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1937: Stella Browne testified before a parliamentary...

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1937

Stella Browne testified before a parliamentary committee on abortion (which was then illegal), as a matter of public duty, about her knowledge in my own person that abortion was not necessarily fatal or injurious to...

6 December 1989: Fourteen women, mostly engineering students,...

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6 December 1989

Fourteen women, mostly engineering students, were shot dead at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal by a man who left a suicide note that contained several references to feminists who had ruined his life.
Maser, Peter. “The Man Who Killed 14 Women: Loved War, Shy with Girls”. Edmonton Journal, 8 Dec. 1989, p. A1.
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May 1862: Mrs Daniel Jones demonstrated at the 1862...

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May 1862

Mrs Daniel Jones demonstrated at the 1862 Exhibition a miniature Albion Press and a prayer which she had printed in forty-six languages.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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November 1802: Thomas Holcroft's "A Tale of Mystery", produced...

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November 1802

Thomas Holcroft 's "A Tale of Mystery", produced at Covent Garden , formally introduced melodrama to the English stage.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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1948: This year almost 23,000 people died of tuberculosis...

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1948

This year almost 23,000 people died of tuberculosis in Britain; of the further 27,000 who died of bronchitis, 20,000 of pneumonia, and 7,000 of other respiratory infections, many no doubt had TB too.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago, 1983.
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August 1874: The National Union of Working Women was founded...

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August 1874

The National Union of Working Women was founded in Bristol.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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1982: Tim Waterstone launched a new UK bookshop...

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1982

Tim Waterstone launched a new UK bookshop chain called Waterstone's , with the aim of offering a larger range of titles than his competitors.
Kean, Danuta. “The end of the affair”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2005–28 Feb. 2006, pp. 145-7.
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Emmuska, Baroness Orczy

EBO , a best-selling novelist of the early twentieth century, is best-known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, her romance of aristocrats during the French Revolution. This was a play before it was a novel...
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy Black and white photograph of Baroness Emmuska Orczy, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a V-necked dress pinned with a brooch, with a gauzy fichu in the V and a larger brooch pinned in the middle. She is wearing pearl earrings and two strands of pearl necklace; her hair is dark, short, and curly.

1855: Western Australia refused to accept any more...

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1855

Western Australia refused to accept any more transported female criminals.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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1991: Norplant, an implanted and reversible form...

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1991

Norplant, an implanted and reversible form of birth control, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the US.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1853: David Richmond, after a tour of America,...

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1853

David Richmond , after a tour of America, founded the first Spiritualist church in England, at Keighley in Yorkshire.
Hamilton-Parker, Craig. “Spiritualism: The History of Spiritualism”. Psychics and Mediums Network.

1905: The offset technique for the lithographic...

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1905

The offset technique for the lithographic press was introduced by Caspar Hermann a German lithographer working in Niles, Ohio.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1823: Elizabeth Scott issued an anthology, Specimens...

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1823

Elizabeth Scott issued an anthology, Specimens of British Poetry, whose representation of women poets is unusually good.
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.