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18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...

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18 April 1835

After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in the House of Commons , the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb , a Whig) was formed.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Before 21 October 1714: George Berkeley compiled and published The...

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Before 21 October 1714

George Berkeley compiled and published The Ladies Library, as by a Lady.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Editor Blanchard, Rae, Oxford University Press, 1941.
95 and n1

1956: Golda Meir was appointed Israel's Minister...

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1956

Golda Meir was appointed Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs. She served as Israel's delegate to the United Nations from 1956 to 1966.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
359

Margaret Bryan

MB was a leading educator and populariser of science: a schoolteacher who published three standard scientific textbooks during the early nineteenth century and the final years of the eighteenth. She also created or advised on...
Margaret Bryan Stipple engraving of Margaret Bryan with her two daughters by William Nutter from a painting by Samuel Shelley, used as frontispiece to Bryan's first book, "A Compendious System of Astronomy", 1797. It shows Bryan with a telescope and celestial globe behind her, measuring instruments on a table, and her pen in hand, wearing a dark gown , white shift, and white turban. Her hair is long and curled.

Jan Struther

JS began to write during the 1920s as a contributor of poems and sketches to journals. She also wrote some still-popular hymns, and edited and wrote for children. She hit the jackpot with her Mrs...
Jan Struther Black-and-white photo of Jan Struther, 28 June 1946. Wearing a patterned dress, she is sitting on the grass and looking down at a small, leashed dog beside her.

1832: The weekly Girls' and Boys' Penny Magazine...

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1832

The weekly Girls' and Boys' Penny Magazine began publication in London; it ran for only one year.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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December 1939: The National Service Bill was passed by the...

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December 1939

The National Service Bill was passed by the British parliament, extending the limits of conscription introduced earlier in the year.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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31 October 1986: Guyanan-born Jan Shinebourne published her...

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31 October 1986

Guyanan-born Jan Shinebourne published her first novel, Timepiece.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

16 May-19 May 1890: An exhibition of postal history was held...

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16 May-19 May 1890

An exhibition of postal history was held in Guildhall in celebration of the Jubilee of Penny Postage.
Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.
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Margery Kempe

MK , called the first English autobiographer, wrote (in the earlier fifteenth century) an account of her life-experience as immensely significant to God and to herself. In a sense, though her subject is herself, she...

1873: Miss Robinson operated a temperance canteen...

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1873

Miss Robinson operated a temperance canteen for soldiers on Dartmoor.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
129

January 1880: The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral...

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January 1880

The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began publishing from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...

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Earlier 1855

Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
355, 667
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
147

25 July 1948: Bread rationing (instituted during the Second...

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25 July 1948

Bread rationing (instituted during the Second World War) ended in Britain.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
398

By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...

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By 1767

Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
71, 73, 307, 282

By 16 November 1889: Una Ashworth Taylor released a collection...

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By 16 November 1889

Una Ashworth Taylor released a collection of her short stories entitled Knight Asrael.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3238 (1889): 669

1883: Clement Dukes, the doctor at Rugby, published...

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1883

Clement Dukes , the doctor at Rugby , published the strongly anti-masturbatory The Preservation of Health as it is Affected by Personal Habits.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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26 October 1951: At the general election the postwar reforming...

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26 October 1951

At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill

1816: Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous...

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1816

Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous satirical novel Headlong Hall.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1815): 574

1897: Samuel Butler published The Authoress of...

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1897

Samuel Butler published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a book calculated to offend the entire establishment
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.
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.

By 3 August 1889: Lyrics and Ballads, Margaret Louisa Woods'...

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By 3 August 1889

Lyrics and Ballads, Margaret Louisa Woods ' first volume of poetry, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3223 (1889): 157

30 June 1849: A weekly periodical for women entitled The...

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30 June 1849

A weekly periodical for women entitled The Domestic Journal and Home Miscellany of Instruction and Amusement began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1723: James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...

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1723

James Jurin , Secretary of the Royal Society , published a pioneering work of statistical analysis, A Letter to the Learned Caleb Cotesworth . . . Containing A Comparison Between the Morality of the Natural...

1 August 1905: Isabella Fyvie Mayo (as I. F. M.) and Vladimir...

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1 August 1905

Isabella Fyvie Mayo (as I. F. M.) and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov (or V. Tchertkoef) published a translation of another letter from Tolstoy to the London Times, A Great Iniquity.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

14 March 1878: A Bill to restrain the licence of the Indian...

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14 March 1878

A Bill to restrain the licence of the Indian press was passed at Calcutta.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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