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1899: Free milk for poor mothers was funded and...

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1899

Free milk for poor mothers was funded and organised for the first time in Britain.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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1863: Turnham's Music Hall opened in Edgware Road,...

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1863

Turnham's Music Hall opened in Edgware Road, London; it was renamed The Metropolitan Music Hall the following year.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.
513

26 February 1731: Elizabeth Rayner, having had her pamphlet...

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26 February 1731

Elizabeth Rayner , having had her pamphlet shop at Charing Cross raided for libels, challenged the raiders in a newspaper advertisement to prove their legal authority, or she would take legal redress.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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1909: Dorothy Levitt published The Woman and the...

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1909

Dorothy Levitt published The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Want to Motor.
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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Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Dorian Gerhold. The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990. Macmillan, 1993.
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3 June 1769: Captain James Cook, engaged in circumnavigating...

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3 June 1769

Captain James Cook , engaged in circumnavigating the world, was in Tahiti with his scientist companions to observe the transit of Venus: the passage of the planet across the disc of the sun. In...

4 December 1961: As announced at the beginning of this year,...

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4 December 1961

As announced at the beginning of this year, the contraceptive pill became available on the National Health Service .
Bowes, Claire. Email to the Women’s Library about a fiftieth anniversary BBC program. 17 Nov. 2011.

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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November-December 1906: Mediation in the Book WarRSC: link to other...

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November-December 1906

Mediation in the Book War (of the Times Book Club against the Net Book Agreement) was attempted unsuccessfully by an unofficial committee composed of several eminent authors.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...

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1495

In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola destroyed texts by Ovid , Dante , Boccaccio and others.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.
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18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...

By December 2008: The city of Paris offered a rent-free artist's...

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By December 2008

The city of Paris offered a rent-free artist's studio to Taslima Nasrin or Nasreen , a Pakistani/Bangladeshi author exiled by the denunciation and threats that greeted her novel Lajja (Shame) in 1993.
Chrisafis, Angelique. “Paris opens door to author fleeing Islamist threats”. Guardian Weekly, 9 Jan. 2009, p. 7.
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Late Spring-Summer 1838: Meetings were held throughout Britain to...

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Late Spring-Summer 1838

Meetings were held throughout Britain to present the Charter and to elect delegates to the planned Chartist National Convention.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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1696: Five years after the death of Richard Baxter,...

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1696

Five years after the death of Richard Baxter , Puritan clergyman, his autobiography, Reliquiae Baxterianae, was published.
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.

1726-7: Only eight per cent of the plays staged at...

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1726-7

Only eight per cent of the plays staged at Drury Lane this season dated from as recently as the last twenty years; this, obviously, was bad news for practising playwrights.
Hume, Robert D. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737. Clarendon, 1988.
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Eleanor Tatlock

ET is an earnestly religious poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, with some humour and some feminist consciousness. She writes narrative poems, hymns, odes, and fables.

1886: Charlotte Mason, founder of the Parents Educational...

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1886

Charlotte Mason , founder of the Parents Educational National Union , published her influential Home Education: A Course of Lectures to Ladies with Kegan Paul .
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.
Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
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3 March 1851: John Ruskin published The Foundations, the...

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3 March 1851

John Ruskin published The Foundations, the first volume of his influential study of architecture and culture entitled The Stones of Venice.
Smart, James P. A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin. Editor Wise, Thomas J., Vol.
2 vols.
, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1964.
II: 47-58
Shepherd, Richard Herne. The Bibliography of Ruskin. E. Stock, 1881.
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1947: A performance of Ponchielli's La Giocanda...

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1947

A performance of Ponchielli 's La Giocanda introduced the singer Maria Callas to the world.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Judith Man

JM became a translator at eighteen, and published her work soon afterwards, in 1640.

23 November 1670: Molière's classic comedy about the nouveau...

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23 November 1670

Molière 's classic comedy about the nouveau riche, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, had its premiere in Paris.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 November 2015

27 February 1854: Napoleon III and the British government jointly...

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27 February 1854

Napoleon III and the British government jointly sent an ultimatum to Russia requiring the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Danubian Principalities.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1880-1886: Social reformer and purity activist Ellice...

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1880-1886

Social reformer and purity activist Ellice Hopkins operated a working-men's mission in a custom-built hall at Barnwell, near Cambridge.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1972: Look Now, a monthly fashion magazine directed...

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1972

Look Now, a monthly fashion magazine directed at women aged 15 to 29, began publication from Stamford Street, London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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22 May 1903: The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership...

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22 May 1903

The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership in New Zealand's legislative and executive councils.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 942

1911: The Social Democratic Federation merged with...

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1911

The Social Democratic Federation merged with other activist groups to form the British Socialist Party (not to be confused with the Labour Party , which had been in being for a decade).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hicks, Hyndman