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25 November 1902: The Central Midwives' Board was constituted...

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25 November 1902

The Central Midwives' Board was constituted by an order in council.
Leap, Nicky, and Billie Hunter. The Midwife’s Tale: An Oral History from Handywoman to Professional Midwife. Scarlet Press, 1993.
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Rivers, John. Dame Rosalind Paget, 1855-1948: A Short Account of Her Life and Work. Midwives Chronicle, 1981.
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1892: The Institute of Chemistry in Britain first...

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1892

The Institute of Chemistry in Britain first offered professional recognition to women.
Albinski, Nan Bowman. Women’s Utopias in British and American Fiction. Routledge, 1988.
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By 1838: Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing...

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By 1838

Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing passengers to and from railway stations than actually transporting passengers over long distances.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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18 December 1902: Balfour's Education Act was passed; it dissolved...

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18 December 1902

Balfour 's Education Act was passed; it dissolved the School Boards and replaced them with Local Education Authorities , which were empowered to provide secondary education.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
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Martin, Christopher. A Short History of English Schools, 1750-1965. Wayland, 1979.
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Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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8 March 1707: The last of George Farquhar's six comedies,...

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8 March 1707

The last of George Farquhar 's six comedies, The Beaux' Stratagem, opened at the Haymarket .
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

1919: The Liberator, a Black US journal, first...

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1919

The Liberator, a Black US journal, first published If We Must Die, a poem of furious defiance by Claude McKay , an immigrant from Jamaica.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
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2 November 1899: Eugene Sandow defeated the English strongman...

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2 November 1899

Eugene Sandow defeated the English strongman Samson in a competition judged by the marquess of Queensberry and the very young Lord de Clifford at the Royal Aquarium.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

January 1873: Women were recruited for compositors' jobs...

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January 1873

Women were recruited for compositors' jobs during the Scottish printers' strike which had begun 15 November 1872.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
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March 1967: In one of the earliest such large-scale disasters,...

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March 1967

In one of the earliest such large-scale disasters, the oil tanker Torrey Canyon split on rocks off Land's End in Cornwall, spilling its entire cargo of oil.
Wesley, Mary, and Kim Sayer. Part of the Scenery. Bantam, 2001.
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By 13 February 1875: Mark Pattison published his best known work,...

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By 13 February 1875

Mark Pattison published his best known work, Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thonemann, Peter. “Wall of Ice”. London Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 23-4.
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Frances Arabella Rowden

FAR , a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
Frances Arabella Rowden Frontispiece of Frances Arabella Rowden's "A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities", 1820.

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.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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6 September 2007: Madeleine L'Engle, an American children's...

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6 September 2007

Madeleine L'Engle , an American children's author best-known for her novel A Wrinkle in Time (1962), died in Litchfield, Connecticut, at the age of eighty-eight.
Martin, Douglas. “Madeleine L’Engle, Writer of Children’s Classics, Is Dead at 88”. New York Times: Books, 8 Sept. 2007.

Alicia D'Anvers

ADA is a remarkably skilled and hard-hitting verse satirist of the late Restoration period, who writes about international politics and about the misogynist, ingrown, self-satisfied culture of the university to whose press her father was...

21 September 1745: Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with...

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21 September 1745

Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with guns but with the claymore or great sword) inflicted their only, bloody defeat on government forces at the battle of Prestonpans in East Lothian.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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13 May 1842: Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was...

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13 May 1842

Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born at 8 Bolwell Terrace, Lambeth Walk, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

9 December 1948: The Genocide Convention was approved by the...

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9 December 1948

The Genocide Convention was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations , taking the simple form of a call to all states to prevent and to punish genocide.
“United Nations Landmarks in Human Rights”. United Nations.
Holmes, Stephen. “Looking away”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 3-8.
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1979: Lynn Conway (a transgendered US computer...

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1979

Lynn Conway (a transgendered US computer scientist, a woman born as a male) radically simplified microchip design, permitting huge advances in engineering.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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1990: The proportion of the British student-age...

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1990

The proportion of the British student-age population in higher education rose above 20% for the first time.
Ainley, Patrick. Degrees of Difference: Higher Education in the 1990s. Laurence and Wishart, 1994.
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After April 1763: Martin Madan published An Account of the...

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After April 1763

Martin Madan published An Account of the Triumphant Death of F. S. a Converted Prostitute, who had supposedly died recently at the age of twenty-six.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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By 1859: Aniline dyes (discovered three years before)...

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By 1859

Aniline dyes (discovered three years before) were introduced in manufacturing; clothing brightened considerably.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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1821: A visitor to Southern Africa, where white...

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A visitor to Southern Africa, where white settlers were engaged in seizing land, wrote that they talk of shooting Bushmen with the same feelings as if the poor creatures were wild beasts.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...

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31 July 2007

The British Army 's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.
“Army ending its operation in N[orthern] I[reland]”. BBC News, 31 July 2007.

1977: Three legal cases in the USA created legal...

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1977

Three legal cases in the USA created legal precedent for women to sue their employers on grounds of sexual harassment, under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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Late 1940: During heavy bombing of London by Hitler's...

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Late 1940

During heavy bombing of London by Hitler 's airforce, film-maker Sydney Box reported anti-semitism in the British Air Ministry , who wanted someone to make a propaganda film but won't do business with Jews.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974.
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