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Late October 2003: The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers...

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Late October 2003

The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers to nominate women who had published their first poetry volume in the last ten years, in order to pick a Top Ten list.
Taylor, Debbie. “Class of 2004”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, Jan. 2004, pp. 18-19.
Gwyneth Lewis. http://www.gwynethlewis.com.

June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...

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June 1762

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion...

20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...

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20 February 1874

Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone 's Liberal government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

1820: William Buckland's excavation of Goat Hole...

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1820

William Buckland 's excavation of Goat Hole cave near Paviland on the Welsh coast uncovered both animal bones and a human skeleton, dubbed the Red Lady of Paviland because of the red ochre stains on...

1890: Charles Albert Watts, with other writers...

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1890

Charles Albert Watts , with other writers and intellectuals, created the Propaganda Press Committee , which aimed to make freethinking ideas accessible through cheap editions of Rationalist texts.
Royle, Edward. “Secularists and Rationalists, 1800-1940”. A History of Religion in Britain, edited by Sheridan Gilley and William J. Sheils, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 406-22.
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29 January 1848: Insurgency in Sicily resulted in the declaration...

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29 January 1848

Insurgency in Sicily resulted in the declaration of Sicily's independence and the granting on this date, by Ferdinand II of Naples, of a constitution.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
183-184

1844: There was a public scandal over the British...

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1844

There was a public scandal over the British government's secret interception of the correspondence of Giuseppe Mazzini , then living in England as a political exile from Italy.
Porter, Bernard. “Boarder or Day Boy?”. London Review of Books, 15 July 1999, pp. 13-15.
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1849: Socialist Robert Owen published The Revolution...

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1849

Socialist Robert Owen published The Revolution in Mind and Practice of the Human Race.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
727

William Godwin

1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...

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1913

Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
254
Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Why Have So Few Women Written on Shakespeare?”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Conference, London, 28 June 2002.

Harriett Mozley

HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She...

May 1916: The US magazine Good Housekeeping began publication...

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May 1916

The US magazine Good Housekeeping began publication in New York by International Magazine Co. ; the English Good Housekeeping was launched in March 1922.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
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.

12 January 1895: The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...

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12 January 1895

The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor House in London by Octavia Hill , Hardwicke Rawnsley , and Robert Hunter (who had been working towards its opening for nearly a year).
“The National Trust”. The National Trust: for ever, for everyone.

By 8 February 1946: Ann Petry published her first novel, The...

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By 8 February 1946

Ann Petry published her first novel, The Street. It sold a million and a half copies, more than any previous novel by an African-American woman.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Wall, Cheryl. “People’s Culture”. WRB, Vol.
31
, No. 2, Mar.–Apr. 2014, pp. 10-12.
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November 1940: Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping...

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November 1940

Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping in homes threatened or damaged by bombing; yet a census this month showed that 60 per cent did not leave home for shelter when air-raid sirens sounded...

24 April 1982: At Barnard College in New York the ninth...

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24 April 1982

At Barnard College in New York the ninth annual The Scholar and the Feminist Conference proposed as theme Towards a Politics of Sexuality. This polarized registrants and critics into opposing factions of pro- and...

1855: The United Kingdom and Belgium signed a copyright...

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1855

The United Kingdom and Belgium signed a copyright agreement.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
162

6 April-July 1994: Genocidal violence in the African country...

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6 April-July 1994

Genocidal violence in the African country of Rwanda left a million people dead after the president's plane was shot down, precipitating attack by one tribal group, the Hutus, against another, the Tutsis.
“Genocide in Rwanda”. Embassy of Rwanda UK.
Enloe, Cynthia. “Crucial reporting”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxi
, No. 5, Feb. 2004, pp. 21-3.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 April 2012

10 January 1900: The first train reached Khartoum from Ca...

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10 January 1900

The first train reached Khartoum from Cairo.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 590

June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...

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June 1966

AnthropologistMary Douglas published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. Routledge, 2002.
2, xvi-xviii
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
80-3
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translator Roudiez, Leon S., Columbia University Press, 1982.
65-6
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967

Sarah Josepha Hale

SJH , nineteenth-century American woman of letters and one of that country's earliest female professional journalists, wrote or edited about fifty books. These include fiction, household advice, works for children (she is the author of...
Sarah Josepha Hale Half-length painting of Sarah Josepha Hale by James Reid Lambdin, c. 1831. She stands at a slight turn against an outdoor nighttime scene, wearing a black dress that sits low on her shoulders, with white at the neckline. Her dark hair, pulled back, hangs in ringlets around her face.

1973: Erin Pizzey of the Chiswick women's refuge...

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1973

Erin Pizzey of the Chiswick women's refuge was the presiding spirit behind the first Women's Aid (WA) National Conference, held in London.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Wilkie Collins

Best remembered for his sensational fiction of the 1860s, WC was, in the course of his forty-year writing career, the author of many ingeniously-plotted novels, as well as a writer of plays (some in collaboration...
Wilkie Collins Caricature of Wilkie Collins, with oversized head and hat and skinny legs. He is putting up a poster for The Woman in White and his jacket pocket is stuffed with posters.

Eliza Mary Hamilton

Eliza Mary Hamilton , an Anglo-Irish writer, published a single collection of poetry. She also contributed several sonnets and poems to the Irish periodicals of the pre- and early Victorian period.

1918: The Women in Industry Committee, chaired...

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1918

The Women in Industry Committee , chaired by Hon. Mr Justice James Richard Atkis , recommended not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for equally efficient
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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work.
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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