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Easter Saturday 1605: Luisa de Carvajal, a Roman Catholic nun of...

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Easter Saturday 1605

Luisa de Carvajal , a Roman Catholic nun of noble Spanish family, landed at Dover as a missionary or activist at the behest of English Jesuits . While in London she wrote revealing letters about the city.
Alberge, Dalya. “It’s dirty and lawless. The food’s terrible—London circa 1605”. Times online, 23 Sept. 2008.

January 1961: In the month of taking office, President...

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January 1961

In the month of taking office, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy set up a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) to report on the position of women in the United States.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
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Anne Evans: Biography

AE was a witty poet and skilled composer of dance songs in the mid to late nineteenth century; she also wrote letters and epigrams. She is known for one posthumously published collection of verses and...

November 1676: A book-auction was held in London which is...

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November 1676

A book-auction was held in London which is reckoned to have been the first modern-method auction in England.
Wall, Cynthia. “The English Auction: Narratives of Dismantlings”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-25.
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January 1870: The Bankruptcy Act ended the use of imprisonment...

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January 1870

The Bankruptcy Act ended the use of imprisonment as punishment for debt.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
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11 April 1884: Charles Reade, novelist and playwright, died...

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11 April 1884

Charles Reade , novelist and playwright, died at 3 Blomfield Villas, Shepherd's Bush, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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5 October 1947: The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)...

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5 October 1947

The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau ) was founded at the Warsaw Conference and established in Belgrade.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
253
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 231

1690-1720: During these 30 years almost 50% of defendants...

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1690-1720

During these 30 years almost 50% of defendants before the criminal courts in London were women.
Beattie, John M. “’Hard-pressed to make ends meet’: Women and Crime in Augustan London”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 103-15.
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November 1917: The average working week for female munitions...

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November 1917

The average working week for female munitions workers was fifty-two to fifty-four hours, with one to four hours overtime.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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September 1868: Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella...

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September 1868

Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella II was subsequently ousted, and the revolutionary party favoured a constitutional government headed by a new sovereign.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

17 September 1961: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)...

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17 September 1961

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) suffered particularly large-scale arrests of its supporters.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...

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23 August 1939

The BBC 's London Calling was first broadcast.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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July 1874: The Senate of the University of London announced...

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July 1874

The Senate of the University of London announced that it would allow women into the classroom but would not grant them degrees.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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By February 1752: James Harris (friend of Sarah Fielding and...

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By February 1752

James Harris (friend of Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier ) published Hermes: or, A Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
6: 129

27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...

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27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .
Fissel, Mark Charles. The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Hibbard, Caroline. Charles I and the Popish Plot. University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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30 July 1935: Penguin Books issued its first ten titles:...

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30 July 1935

Penguin Books issued its first ten titles: sixpenny paperbacks with a characteristic penguin logo.
Penguin UK: About Us: Company History. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/history.html.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 395
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
113
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
308 and n12
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
380

P. L. Travers

PLT , poet, editor, essayist, critic, travel writer, and novelist, who was born in Australia but wrote mostly in England, is best known for her Mary Poppins books, generally classified as for children. All her...
P. L. Travers Black and white photograph of P. L. Travers playing the part of Titania in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", c. 1924. She perches on a log wearing a sleeveless tunic, with vine-leaves in her unruly curls, and flowers scattered around.

Ezra Pound

EP , American poet, critic, editor, translator, and key figure in the literary modernist movement, lived in London from 1908 to 1921, in Paris from 1921 to 1924, and then in Italy until the end...

20-21 May 1927: In the Spirit of St Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh...

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20-21 May 1927

In the Spirit of St Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, New York, to Le Bourget airfield at Paris.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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By 4 October 1851: Chemistry professor William Gregory published...

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By 4 October 1851

Chemistry professor William Gregory published an extended analysis of mesmerism entitled Letters to a Candid Inquirer on Animal Magnetism.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
208, 210
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1249 (1851): 1037

January 1881: The Personal Rights Journal began monthly...

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January 1881

The Personal Rights Journal began monthly publication in England.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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31 March 1912: On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly...

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31 March 1912

On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly protested the exclusion of women's franchise from the Home Rule bill.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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1945: The Royal Society decided to open its membership...

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1945

The Royal Society decided to open its membership to women, and admitted crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (a pacifist during World War II) as its first female Fellow.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1540: Henry VIII amalgamated the companies of surgeons...

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1540

Henry VIII amalgamated the companies of surgeons and barbers as the Company of Barber-Surgeons .
“History of the College”. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

1668: Martha Taylor attracted attention for fasting:...

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1668

Martha Taylor attracted attention for fasting: the first published account, largely in her own words, presented her abstinence as holy; an account for the Royal Society attacked both this text and Taylor herself.
Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
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