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September 1991: John Bird and Gordon Roddick launched The...

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September 1991

John Bird and Gordon Roddick launched The Big Issue, as a British magazine to be sold in the streets by homeless people who would thereby earn a living, on the model of Street News...

Elizabeth Hincks:

EH , a Quaker widow about whose life nothing is known, wrote and published a single long poem in 1671.

9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...

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9 March 1949

A National Theatre Act was passed by the British Parliament , which allowed the Treasury to contribute towards national theatre costs.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.

By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

Margaret Minifie

MM was a minor eighteenth-century sentimental novelist. Her literary career was bound up with that of her sister, and the account reflected in standard reference books has rendered her nearly invisible by assimilating a number...

1957: The film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring...

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1957

The film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness , directed by David Lean , and dealing with British prisoners of war in Asia, was released.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
413
Pickard, Roy. The Oscar Movies from A to Z. Frederick Muller, 1977.
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1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...

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1702-1704

The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon , was posthumously published.
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.

11 February 1970: Radical students at Warwick University occupied...

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11 February 1970

Radical students at Warwick University occupied the Registry and discovered political files kept by the Vice-Chancellor on individuals which were used for passing information to security staff at industrial plants in Coventry.
Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
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22 July 1946: Members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (Military-National...

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22 July 1946

Members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (Military-National Organization in Hebrew) blew up British General Headquarters in the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, killing ninety-one people.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
396
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Irgun Zvai Leumi

1881: The spiritualist newspaper Light was founded;...

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1881

The spiritualist newspaper Light was founded; it lasted more than a century.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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1920: The first women magistrates were appoint...

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1920

The first women magistrates were appointed.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
141

7 May 1849: The Royal Academy exhibition (held on the...

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7 May 1849

The Royal Academy exhibition (held on the first Monday in May) featured the first Pre-Raphaelite works by William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais .
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
280
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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8 March 1910: Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first...

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8 March 1910

Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman pilot when she received her brevet de pilote d'aéroplane.
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. Aviation: An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
158, 246

April-December 1860: Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Gryll...

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April-December 1860

Thomas Love Peacock 's satirical novel Gryll Grange was serialised in Fraser's magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

15 June 1996: A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping...

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15 June 1996

A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, injuring about two hundred people.
“Huge Explosion Rocks Central Manchester”. BBC News: On this Day, 15 June 1996.

1785: Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton)...

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1785

Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton ) published with Joseph JohnsonEssays Historical and Moral, which expresses feminist and reforming sentiments.
Robinson, Shareen. Revolutionary Novels. University of New South Wales, 2000.
145

1889: Herminie Cadolle opened Maison Cadolle, a...

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1889

Herminie Cadolle opened Maison Cadolle , a Paris lingerie shop from which she sold what is often credited as the first modern bra.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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1846: Heinrich Völter purchased Keller 's patent...

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1846

Heinrich Völter purchased Keller 's patent for a pulp machine.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
145, 148

1855: Poster advertisements were made subject to...

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1855

Poster advertisements were made subject to advertising duty.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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10 March 1812 to September 1818: Byron published the first two cantos of his...

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10 March 1812 to September 1818

Byron published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: ix, xiii, xv
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 March 2010

6 March 1957: The Gold Coast became the first British colony...

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6 March 1957

The Gold Coast became the first British colony to achieve independent statehood, under the name of Ghana.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
256, 258
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
654
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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14 November 1666: Samuel Pepys recorded a pretty experiment,6:...

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14 November 1666

Samuel Pepys recorded a pretty experiment,
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
6: 60
apparently the first-ever blood transfusion and first-ever vivisection: a dog had its own blood pumped out while the blood of another dog was pumped into it.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
6: 60-1

October 1974: The first women students were admitted to...

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October 1974

The first women students were admitted to formerly all-male colleges of Oxford University: Brasenose , Hertford , St Catherine's , Jesus , and Wadham .
Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
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Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
374
Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.
viii
, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15.
210

12 October 1874: The College for Working Women was established...

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12 October 1874

The College for Working Women was established in Fitzroy Street in London.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
46-51
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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11 February 1858: At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old...

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11 February 1858

At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous , saw a vision which others identified as the Virgin Mary.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
279
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
268
Bell, David A. “Who mended Pierre’s leg?”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 30-1.
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