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10 June 1942: After the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia,...

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10 June 1942

After the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , every male at the mining village of Lidice was shot, and women and children deported.
Mackworth, Cecily. Czechoslovakia Fights Back. Lindsay Drummond, 1942.
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Mary Carpenter

MC , one of the founders of the Ragged Schools movement, was indefatigable in giving papers and publishing articles about her favourite topics: the use of education as a force for positive change, especially in...
Mary Carpenter Sepia photo of Mary Carpenter. She wears her grey hair in curls, under a head-band and cap with ear flaps. She has a dark, buttoned bodice with paler sleeves and white collar with a pendant in the centre.

December 1945: The Committee on the Juvenile Employment...

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December 1945

The Committee on the Juvenile Employment Service (chaired by Sir Godfrey Ince ) recommended that juvenile employment service should be established to assist boys and girls in their passage from school into the working world.
Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.
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Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.
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1985: Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006) published an autobiography,...

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1985

Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006) published an autobiography, Call Me Woman, which uses the harsh events of her own life to show how the South African system of apartheid bore on women in particular.
“Lost voices”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, Jan. 2007, p. 51.
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1291: Christian-held Acre was besieged and recaptured...

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1291

Christian-held Acre was besieged and recaptured by Islamic forces, ending the last of the crusades.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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August 1863: Rosa Mulholland's story Mrs. Archie appeared...

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August 1863

Rosa Mulholland 's story Mrs. Archie appeared in the Cornhill Magazine.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

26 September 1991: Elaine Showalter published Sister's Choice:...

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26 September 1991

Elaine Showalter published Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing , complement or sequel to her book of British women's literary history, A Literature of Their Own, 1977.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Margaret Catchpole

MC was a late eighteenth-century labouring-class woman whose extraordinary experience as a transported felon propelled her (through the influence of Elizabeth Cobbold , her employer and an active woman writer) to express herself in letters...
Margaret Catchpole Watercolour of Margaret Catchpole by Richard Cobbold, done to accompany his much-fictionalised life of her, 1845 ( a quarter-century after her death). She has long, loose, dark hair and is dressed in blue.

18 September 1714: George I landed in England to claim the ...

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18 September 1714

George I landed in England to claim the throne.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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In the 1860s: Young middle-class women began to use cosmetics,...

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In the 1860s

Young middle-class women began to use cosmetics, albeit sparingly.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Ann Martin Taylor

Having borne and educated a remarkable family of precocious authors, AMT followed her daughters Ann and Jane and her son Isaac into print in 1814, and produced a series of conduct books and a volume...
Ann Martin Taylor Black and white photograph of a drawing of Ann Martin Taylor, seated in a chair that is upholstered with flowers, wearing a simple, long, dark dress with a high collar and wide sleeves. She is wearing a white bonnet that is tied in a bow at her chin and a pair of small wire spectacles. Signed underneath the drawing are the words: affectionately yours, Ann Gilbert.

29 June 1871: The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour...

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29 June 1871

The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour unions but denied workers the right to picket.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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8 January 1897: The magazine Country Life began publication...

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8 January 1897

The magazine Country Life began publication (titled at first Country Life Illustrated).
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.

1912: The Hoover vacuum cleaner (a carpet-cleaning...

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1912

The Hoover vacuum cleaner (a carpet-cleaning machine whose US patent was sold in 1908) was introduced in Britain.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Pennington, Hugh. “Then came the Hoover”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2006, pp. 15-16.
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1838: The Poor Law annual report noted links between...

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1838

The Poor Law annual report noted links between pauper ill health and the abominable housing conditions available to them.
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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1934: France established the fortified Maginot...

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1934

France established the fortified Maginot Line along its northern border from Belgium to Switzerland. It was named after André Maginot , former French Minister of War.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
8: 206

1 November 1863: The British Workwoman: Out and At Home, an...

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1 November 1863

The British Workwoman: Out and At Home, an illustrated improving magazine, began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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24 June 1856: The Legislative Council of Canada was made...

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24 June 1856

The Legislative Council of Canada was made elective.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 469
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1888: A Fair Emigrant, a novel by Rosa Mulholland,...

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1888

A Fair Emigrant, a novel by Rosa Mulholland , was published in London. It was followed by an American edition the next year.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1794: In his General View of the County of Westmorland,...

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1794

In his General View of the County of Westmorland, Andrew Pringle reported that although generally horse work was men's work, in Westmorland women often drove teams of three or four harnessed to ploughs or...

1890: The year following Irish nationalist Ellen...

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1890

The year following Irish nationalist Ellen O'Leary 's death from breast cancer on 15 October 1889, her Lays of Country, Home and Friends (many of them political) were collected and published.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1696: The Bank of England, two years after its...

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1696

The Bank of England , two years after its founding, began limiting its issue of (handwritten) paper bank notes to values of over fifty pounds.
Boggan, Steven. “Paper Chase”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, pp. Weekend 21 - 6.
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Ruth Rendell

RR established herself as a leading crime novelist of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To the intricacies of plot characteristic of the genre, she adds a capacity to scare her readers, and a sophisticated focus...
Ruth Rendell Colour photograph of Ruth Rendell, seated at a table with a microphone and a glass of water. She is wearing a fawn jacket, white shirt, and brown trousers. Her is short and blonde.

23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 December 2009

1685: The parish of St James's in Westminster was...

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1685

The parish of St James's in Westminster was created by partitioning St Martin in the Fields: an early example of the westward spread of desirable residential London districts.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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