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1909: Liberal government introduced a child allowance...

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1909

Liberal government introduced a child allowance (£10 for each child) for income tax payers with children under 16.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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7 May 1915: The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a...

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7 May 1915

The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
167, 186
Reynolds, David. “Too Proud to Fight”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 29-31.
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By about 1650: Slave-holding plantations were established...

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By about 1650

Slave-holding plantations were established in the north as well as the south of the future USA: at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York.
Wilford, John Noble. “Digging Up Secrets of Northern Slaves”. Edmonton Journal, 12 Sept. 1999, p. B4.
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1927: The design of bicycles for women changed...

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1927

The design of bicycles for women changed as a response to changes in women's clothing: from voluminous skirts to split skirts or slacks.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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1889: The English charitable landscape featured...

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1889

The English charitable landscape featured no fewer than 45 separate visiting charities for the blind.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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23 April 1979: Blair Peach, a London teacher, suffered a...

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23 April 1979

Blair Peach , a London teacher, suffered a fractured skull when he was hit on the head by a police officer as he was leaving an anti-National Front demonstration at Southall. He died...

17 July 1791: People were shot while demonstrating in the...

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17 July 1791

People were shot while demonstrating in theChamp de Mars in Paris; this became known as the Massacre of the Champ de Mars.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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15 August 1951: Architect Basil Spence won a competition...

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15 August 1951

Architect Basil Spence won a competition to design a renewed Coventry Cathedral.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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3 January 1994: The World Health Organization reported that...

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3 January 1994

The World Health Organization reported that there were more than one million AIDS cases around the world.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Dorothy L. Sayers

DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...
Dorothy L. Sayers Bronze statue of Dorothy L. Sayers in Witham, England.

1891: Dr Peter Charles Remondino promoted circumcision...

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1891

Dr Peter Charles Remondino promoted circumcision in his History of Circumcision as a preventitive against excessive and wasteful masturbation.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Routledge, 1995.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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March 1919: The General Nursing Council for England and...

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March 1919

The General Nursing Council for England and Wales was established to maintain a registry of nurses, who could declare themselves Registered Nurses.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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1849: Thomas Grainger designed the first train...

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1849

Thomas Grainger designed the first train ferry; he used it to transport rail cars across the Firth of Forth.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Charlotte Maria Tucker

Charlotte Maria Tucker was a phenomenally prolific and popular novelist, writer of tracts and short stories, and poet for children and adults. Most of her works have a religious and didactic intent. She is reported...
Charlotte Maria Tucker Black and white photograph of Charlotte Maria Tucker by William Notman, Toronto, 1875. She sits in an upholstered chair beside a small table draped with a tablecloth and bearing a book and an ornate Greek-motif jar (probably photographer's props). She wears a long, dark, broad-skirted dress and a simple dark buttoned jacket with white lace collar apparently joined to white lace around a dark cap. Her hair is arranged to shoulder length.

1944: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in...

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1944

Laurence Olivier directed and starred in the film Henry V, making the most of the English patriotic feeling in Shakespeare 's original play.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...

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10 June 1854

Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
Beaver, Patrick. The Crystal Palace 1851-1936: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise. Hugh Evelyn, 1970.
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1820s: Bazaars (specially arranged sales, largely...

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1820s

Bazaars (specially arranged sales, largely of fancy goods) were beginning to become a popular way to raise funds for charity.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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May 1912

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour candidates in constituencies where a Liberal anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...

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Late 1951

Winston Churchill 's Conservative government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.
Roberts, Clayton, and David Roberts. A History of England: 1688 to the Present. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
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Mount, Ferdinand. “The Doctrine of Unripe Time”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006, pp. 28-30.
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From 1848: Between this year and October 1996 (when...

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From 1848

Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...

Charlotte Yonge

CY was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She...
Charlotte Yonge Black and white reproduction of an albumen print of Charlotte Yonge's head by the Rev. Duke Yonge, 1858? The image is oval; the sitter is seen in profile facing left. She is wearing a small, light cap, a pale ribbon around her neck fastened with a brooch (perhaps a cameo), and embroidery around her collar. National Portrait Gallery.

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.

From about 1817: The Australian Aborigines were subjected...

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From about 1817

The Australian Aborigines were subjected to brutal and rapid near-extermination.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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1955: This year Margaret Stanley Wrench published...

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1955

This year Margaret Stanley Wrench published both How Much for a Pony? (another children's story) and Harlequin's Revenge and Other Plays for Puppets.
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.

1869: US physician George Henry Taylor patented...

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1869

US physician George Henry Taylor patented a steam-powered Manipulator for vibration and massage treatment of female disorders and other complaints.
Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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