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1852: The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased,...

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1852

The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased, and converted to provide 700-800 places for women sentenced to penal servitude.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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1914: Una Ashworth Taylor released her critical...

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1914

Una Ashworth Taylor released her critical study of Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1849: William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) coined...

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1849

William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) coined the term thermodynamics in an account of Sadi Carnot 's earlier theory of heat.
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.
319

21 December 1879: Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (who later...

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21 December 1879

Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (who later changed his name to Josef Stalin ) was born in Gori, Georgia (at that time part of Russia).
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

August 1975: Enid Nemy's New York Times story entitled...

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August 1975

Enid Nemy 's New York Times story entitled Women Begin to Speak Out Against Sexual Harassment at Work was syndicated across the USA, popularizing and legitimating the term coined three months before by Cornell

1692: Nahum Tate published A Present for the Ladies:...

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1692

Nahum Tate published A Present for the Ladies: Being a Historical Vindication of the Female Sex.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
101n38
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.

1514: The presence of people who claimed to be,...

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1514

The presence of people who claimed to be, and/or were called by authorities Egyptians (later known as Gypsies or Gipsies, now as Roma) was first recorded in England.
Mayall, David. “Egyptians and Vagabonds: Representations of the Gypsy in Early Modern Official and Rogue Literature”. Immigrants and Minorities, Vol.
16
, No. 3, Frank Cass, Nov. 1997, pp. 55-82.
57
Netzloff, Mark. “’Counterfeit Egyptians’ and Imagined Borders: Jonson’s the Gypsies Metamorphosed”. English Literary History, Vol.
68
, No. 4, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1 Dec. 2001–28 Feb. 2002, pp. 763-93.
773

1873: The Plymouth Ladies' Committee, a Contagious...

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1873

The PlymouthLadies' Committee , a Contagious Diseases Acts repeal group, published Caroline Nicholson 's What I Saw at the Royal Albert Hospital.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
165

1760: The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de...

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1760

The year he was twenty, Horace Benedict de Saussure , natural scientist, visited Chamonix and offered a reward for the first successful ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc.
Nardin, Jane. “A Meeting on the Mer de Glace: Frankenstein and the history of Alpine mountaineering”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 441-9.
443

21 August 1911: The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was...

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21 August 1911

The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation was founded by Louie Bennett and Helen Chenevix to link smaller suffrage organisations operating across Ireland.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
42-3
Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2026, 10 vols.
8: 383
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
25-7

22 November 1976: The Sexual Offences Amendment Act attempted...

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22 November 1976

The Sexual Offences Amendment Act attempted to make it less daunting for victims to report rape and give evidence, by granting anonymity to women reporting rape and restricting questioning into their sexual past during the...

Ray Strachey

Though RS published three novels between 1907 and 1927 (and a volume of history in collaboration with her husband ), most of her writing is non-fictional and reflects her deep commitment to women's suffrage, women's...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
239
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
379

Elizabeth Carter

EC was renowned during a long span of the later eighteenth century as a scholar and translator from several languages and the most seriously learned among the Bluestockings. Her English version of Epictetus was...
Elizabeth Carter Portrait of Elizabeth Carter as Minerva, the Greek goddess of wisdom, by John Fayram in probably the late 1730s. She wears gilded metal armour over a white loose shirt and under a blue sash, and a helmet with feathery plume. She is holding in one hand a round shield, in the other a book bound in red, with gilt decoration, which (as Edward Cave revealed in writing her praise) is a copy of Plato. National Portrait Gallery.

1914: The weekly magazine Hearth and Home was absorbed...

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1914

The weekly magazine Hearth and Home was absorbed by Vanity Fair.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217

Margaret Calderwood

MC , living and writing in the eighteenth century, is remembered for her travel journal (which grew out of letters to her daughter). As a Scotswoman she reports on the foreign country of England as...
Margaret Calderwood Painting of Margaret Calderwood, she is wearing a low cut brown dress and has a blue scarf over her left arm. The background is also a shade of brown, and her hair is black.

By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

1918: Oswald Spengler published the first volume...

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1918

Oswald Spengler published the first volume of Der Untergang des Abendlandes, one of his several influential works; the second volume followed in 1922.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

By late Ocrober 1982: The Gay Men's Press of London published Alan...

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By late Ocrober 1982

The Gay Men's Press of London published Alan Bray 's scholarly, ground-breaking study Homosexuality in Renaissance England.
Davidson, James. “Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs”. London Review of Books, 2 June 2005, pp. 13-18.
13-15
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4152 (29 (October 1982): 1187

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.
364

1884: Clergyman Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta...

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1884

Clergyman Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta founded Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street in the London slum of Whitechapel, the first settlement house designed as a centre of help for the local poor, run...

By 1975: The popularity of autobiographies and novels...

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By 1975

The popularity of autobiographies and novels like Maxine Hong Kingston 's Woman Warrior and Rita Mae Brown 's Rubyfruit Jungle had opened a large and growing reading market for coming-of-age works by women writers from...

30 January 1972: Pakistan withdrew from the Commonwealth....

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30 January 1972

Pakistan withdrew from the Commonwealth.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
264

1863: Publisher Alexander Macmillan moved the publishing...

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1863

Publisher Alexander Macmillan moved the publishing firm founded by his late brother Daniel from Cambridge to London (where he had opened a branch in 1858).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
8: 188

1 January 1753: According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning,...

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1 January 1753

According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning , a maidservant, was abducted, after which she was imprisoned for days.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
23 (1752): 107-9