Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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6 September 1952: Forty countries subscribed to the protocols...
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6 September 1952
Forty countries subscribed to the protocols of the Universal Copyright Convention (held under the auspices of UNESCO
) in Geneva, Switzerland).
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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“Legal Instruments. Universal Copyright Convention, with Appendix Declaration relating to Articles XVII and Resolution concerning Article XI 1952”. UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
1826: Twenty years after the Fourdrinier brothers...
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1826
Twenty years after the Fourdrinier brothers took a patent for their papermaking machine, John Marshall
invented the dandy-roll: a device used in papermaking machines whose machine-made paper would appear handmade.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Dover Publications, 1978.
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28 May 1754: Seeds were sown for the Seven Years' War...
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28 May 1754
Seeds were sown for the Seven Years' War when a small force of Americans (both British and native) allegedly made an unprovoked attack on a conciliatory French force on the banks of the Ohio River.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Jane Lead
JL
was a seventeenth-century mystic and visionary, a diarist, and a pamphleteer. All her literary roles were aspects of her dominant calling, that of religious leader and Heavenly Spy. Her later works used the...
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Katherine Mansfield
KM
's life was short and much of her writing experimental or oriented towards earning. Though contemporary reviewers sometimes condescended to her youth, gender, and magazine publication, she is now seen as one of our...
1 February 1893: Thomas Edison opened the world's first film...
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1 February 1893
Thomas Edison
opened the world's first film studio in West Orange, New Jersey; the film strips were not designed for projection onto a screen but for individual viewers to watch, "peep-show" style, through a...
1875: Leading housing reform organizations served...
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1875
Leading housing reform organizations served less than two thousand households in London.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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1946: Carol Reed directed the film adaptation of...
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1946
Carol Reed
directed the film adaptation of the novel by F. L. Green
entitled Odd Man Out.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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: Mexico expropriated the British Mexican Eagle...
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Spring 1938
Mexico expropriated the British Mexican Eagle Oil Company
, and in the subsequent first class crisis
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(17 April 1974): 16
broke off relations with Britain.
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
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Susanna Moodie
SM
is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote...
From 1789: John Howlett, a prominent former supporter...
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From 1789
John Howlett
, a prominent former supporter of the enclosure of common land, changed his tune and argued against the practice in Arthur Young
's Annals of Agriculture.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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1859: The first pharmaceuticals factory opened...
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1859
The first pharmaceuticals factory opened in St Helens, Merseyside
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
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28 September 1707: The Privy Council turned down a scheme by...
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28 September 1707
The Privy Council
turned down a scheme by entrepreneurs including John Breholt
for ending piracy by disaffected and allegedly very wealthy British seamen off the island of Madagascar.
Baer, Joel H. “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”. Eighteenth- Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 49-62.
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May Laffan
Although she is relatively unknown today, ML
's journal attack on the convent education system, her four novels, one novella, and four short stories about late nineteenth-century Ireland (most published anonymously) were controversial and well-known...
1843: Scottish surgeon James Braid's Neurypnology;...
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1843
Scottish surgeon James Braid
's Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep discussed hypnotism (a renaming of phenomena hitherto known as mesmerism) and its potential benefits.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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By mid-October 1930: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published...
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By mid-October 1930
W. C. Sellar
and R. J. Yeatman
published 1066 and All That, which was subtitled A memorable history of England: comprising, all the parts you can remember.
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.
23 July 1855: The Friendly Societies Act issued licenses...
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23 July 1855
The Friendly Societies Act issued licenses and created a system of regulation for these organizations.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1703: A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled...
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1703
A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled The Ladies' Catechism was published.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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1875: The Psychological Society of Great Britain...
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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April 1866: Prussia signed a treaty with the fairly new...
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April 1866
Prussia signed a treaty with the fairly new unified state of Italy, which agreed to join with any attack by Prussia, within three months of its signing, on Austria (which still held wide territories on...
1819: William Carey's and Joshua Marshman's Baptist...
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1819
William Carey
's and Joshua Marshman
's Baptist mission in Serampore near Calcutta, India, opened a college for local youth.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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February 1814: Severe cold weather gave an opportunity for...
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February 1814
Severe cold weather gave an opportunity for the first frost fair in London since 1788: from Blackfriars Bridge a double line of stalls set up on the ice did a roaring trade.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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By January 1786: Charles Wilkins' translation from Sanskrit...
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By January 1786
Charles Wilkins
' translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagvat Gita was published at the particular desire of Warren Hastings
and by the authority of the court of directors of the East India Company
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 1
1836: The monthly Magazine of Domestic Economy...
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1836
The monthly Magazine of Domestic Economy began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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3 November 2004: George W. Bush was re-elected President of...
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3 November 2004
George W. Bush
was re-elected President of the United States.
Borger, Julian. “And now . . . four more years”. theguardian.com, 4 Nov. 2004.
