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June 1872: The Girls' Public Day School Company was...

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June 1872

The Girls' Public Day School Company was founded in London by the National Union (Women's Education Union) to establish schools for girls.
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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4 September 1939: The day after war was declared, the first...

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4 September 1939

The day after war was declared, the first two hundred Citizens Advice Bureaux opened their doors, established by the National Council of Social Service so that those who needed financial advice could get practical support.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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“About Us. CAB History”. Citizens Advice Bureau.

15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...

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15 February 1816

Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons : he wanted to compel the British Museum to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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12 May 1910: The American National Association for the...

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12 May 1910

The AmericanNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its second annual conference and formally adopted its name.
“A Century of Racial Segregation, 1849-1950”. The Library of Congress: Exhibitions.

1838: The first Travelling Post Office (night trains...

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1838

The first Travelling Post Office (night trains on which mail was sorted in transit) was introduced between London and Liverpool.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Webster, Ben. “Last post sounds end of the line for night mail”. Times, 16 June 2001, p. 3.
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Maggie Gee

MG 's novels are deeply marked by the various threats that dominated the late twentieth century: nuclear damage, global warming, urban disintegration. They often centre on the particular difficulties and dilemmas of women's lives and...
Maggie Gee Head-to-toe colour photo portrait of Maggie Gee at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 9 October 2010. She is wearing a black and red outfit, complete with red-laced shoes, a red coat, and red rings on her fingers. The photo is taken outside.

January 1793: Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy...

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January 1793

Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy of the actress Sarah Siddons , who had been infected with syphilis by her husband.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
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1932: The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career...

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1932

The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career with a study of metaphysics and Alfred North Whitehead in her work Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism which is particularly useful for its elucidation of terminology.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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September 1964: Liverpool city council provided a grant for...

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September 1964

Liverpool city council provided a grant for the founding of the Everyman Theatre , which became a centre for popular culture and radical play-writing.
Hickling, Alfred. “’You could be watching an exciting new musical while sitting on a bag of cement’”. The Guardian, 8 Sept. 2004, pp. G16 - G17.
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1851: The Anglican Evangelical Church Missionary...

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1851

The Anglican Evangelical Church Missionary Society moved into Palestine.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Elizabeth Teft

ET was a poet of the earlier eighteenth century whose work suggests considerable independence of mind. Many of her poems are social or occasional; some are political.

1624: Thomas Heywood published Gynaikeion: or,...

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1624

Thomas Heywood published Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History concerninge Women (on the title-page the first word is printed in Greek letters).
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 11

Between December 1981 and summer 1985: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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Between December 1981 and summer 1985

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked the advance of AIDS in that country, from 152 cases in late 1981 to over 12,000 cases in mid 1985.
Crewe, Tom. “Here was a plague”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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630: Saint Eanswida founded a convent for women...

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630

Saint Eanswida founded a convent for women at Folkestone in Kent.
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
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1872: The Society of Female Artists changed its...

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1872

The Society of Female Artists changed its name to Society of Lady Artists.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...

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5 April 1843

John Ruskin , as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

January 1807-June 1809: John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld's brother)...

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January 1807-June 1809

John Aikin (Anna Letitia Barbauld 's brother) ran a Dissenting periodical, The Athenæum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

23 March 1895: A weekly magazine entitled Home Chat began...

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23 March 1895

A weekly magazine entitled Home Chat began publication, one of those called by Mary Gawthorpespecialized offerings for women, edited by men. . . . all small, dainty in their appeal.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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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.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
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1882: The Wife Beaters Act decreed the offence...

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1882

The Wife Beaters Act decreed the offence of wife-beating to be punishable by public flogging, as well as exhibition in a pillory.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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1988: Peepal Tree published the novel The Last...

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1988

Peepal Tree published the novel The Last English Plantation by Jan Shinebourne .
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1939: Oxford University Press published the first...

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1939

Oxford University Press published the first edition of Theodore Besterman 's A World Bibliography of Bibliographies.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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25 April 2013: A bill to end succession to the crown based...

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25 April 2013

A bill to end succession to the crown based on male primogeniture was passed by the British parliament.
“Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law”. BBC News UK, 25 Apr. 2013.

1869: Debt ceased to be a crime in England....

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1869

Debt ceased to be a crime in England.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...

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27 May 1682

Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II , arrived in England.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Sarah Butler

SB (if she existed) was an obscure Irish writer who died in the early eighteenth century, before the publication of her collections of national history under the guise of fiction or romance. Someone of this...
Sarah Butler Title-page of Sarah Butler's "Irish Tales", published anonymously by Edmund Curll in 1716