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14 May 1885: Americans Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph...

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14 May 1885

Americans Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell dated their preface to A Canterbury Pilgrimage (written by her, illustrated by him) about a three-day journey by tandem tricycle from London to Canterbury loosely following the footsteps...

November 1896: The Lady's Realm began publication in London;...

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November 1896

The Lady's Realm began publication in London; while much concerned with fashion, it also published contemporary fiction.
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.

24 December 1881: The British government declared the Irish...

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24 December 1881

The British government declared the IrishLadies' Land League an illegal organization.
Smith, Janet. “Helen Taylor’s Anti-imperial Feminism: Ireland and the Land League question”. Women’s History, Vol.
2
, No. 4, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, pp. 19-24.
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20 February 1896: The first films in Britain to charge admission...

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20 February 1896

The first films in Britain to charge admission were shown at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, for three weeks from this day.
Betts, Ernest. The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Naomi Royde-Smith

NRS 'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies...

1910: Lucy Walford's autobiography, Recollections...

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1910

Lucy Walford 's autobiography, Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, appeared.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

22 August 1485: King Richard III was killed at the battle...

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22 August 1485

King Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field; Henry Bolingbroke seized the throne of England and reigned as Henry VII .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 77

Late 1822: Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing...

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Late 1822

Charles Knight founded his eponymous publishing firm in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 164

By February 1996: A London edition appeared of John Boswell's...

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By February 1996

A London edition appeared of John Boswell 's The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe (published in the USA two years earlier).
Davidson, James. “Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs”. London Review of Books, 2 June 2005, pp. 13-18.
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26 January 1832: The New Strand Theatre opened in London as...

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26 January 1832

The New Strand Theatre opened in London as a subscription theatre; it operated for five years without any kind of licence, then re-opened on 25 April 1836 as fully legitimate.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Catherine Fanshawe

CF wrote mostly in the early nineteenth century, though she began before the end of the old century. She composed private poems and letters (of which only a tiny proportion survive); sophisticated, high-spirited, sharp-tongued parodies...

By 4 April 1903: Victoria, Lady Welby, published her most...

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By 4 April 1903

Victoria, Lady Welby , published her most philosophically important work, What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
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Warnock, Mary, Baroness, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
64 (3 April 1903): 106

1986: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished...

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1986

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council or GLC (then headed by socialist maverick Ken Livingstone ), leaving London as the world's largest city with no central metropolitan authority.
White, Michael et al. “Livingstone win a humiliation for Blair”. Guardian Weekly, 11–17 May 2000, p. 7.
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Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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27 November 1765: In the case of Entick V. Carrington, Lord...

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27 November 1765

In the case of Entick V. Carrington, Lord Camden denied the right of servants of the crown to enter a private house in search of seditious papers.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
35 (1765): 537

1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...

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1967

The BBC began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
360

31 December 1991: The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a political...

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31 December 1991

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a political entity, dissolving into Russia and a number of independent republics.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
476

15 June 1916: A small international group of artists at...

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15 June 1916

A small international group of artists at Zurich in Switzerland (where many of them were sitting out the First World War) began this summer to call their indignant, iconoclastic work Dada or Dadaism. On this...

May 1870: Leeds Prison in England was still employing...

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May 1870

Leeds Prison in England was still employing stocks to discipline female prisoners.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1937: Passenger ferry service began between Dover...

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1937

Passenger ferry service began between Dover in England, and Dunkirk in France.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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14 April 1865: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United...

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14 April 1865

Abraham Lincoln , President of the United States, was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth , at Ford's Theatre, Washington.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
2: 95
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
14 April 2010

1887: The Anatomical Society of Great Britain was...

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1887

The Anatomical Society of Great Britain was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
411

Tillie Olsen

TO , one of the leading lights of the twentieth-century feminist movement in the USA, prided herself on being a proletarian writer. She published very few books: a short-story volume, a novel, a book...
Tillie Olsen Photograph of Tillie Olsen, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a black turtleneck and a necklace of small red, blue, and white beads. Her hair is short, grey, and sticking straight up from her head.

1935: Oxford University opened its Bachelor of...

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1935

Oxford University opened its Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity degrees to women.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
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10 December 1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, founders...

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10 December 1976

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan , founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement , were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

1904: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the...

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1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
“RADA: A Brief History”. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).