Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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George Bradshaw
May Day 1930: A women's march sponsored by the National...
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May Day 1930
A women's march sponsored by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement
was held in conjunction with the National Hunger March; they culminated in a mass rally in Hyde Park, London, on this date.
Bruley, Sue. “A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 40-53.
42, 43
16 May 1911: King George V unveiled the Queen Victoria...
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16 May 1911
King George V
unveiled the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, and knighted its designer, Thomas Brock
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
345
May 1885: John Callcott Horsley, Rector of the Royal...
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May 1885
John Callcott Horsley
, Rector of the Royal Academy
, first stated his objection to the use of nude female models in a letter to The Times which he signed a British Matron.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
60-61
1921: This year's Education Act raised the legal...
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1921
This year's Education Act raised the legal school-leaving age in Britain from twelve to fourteen.
Pedersen, Susan. “A Girl’s Right to Have Fun”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 36-7.
36
July 1800: A new Combination Act, modifying that of...
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July 1800
A new Combination Act, modifying that of 12 July 1799, outlawed trade unions and strikes.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
764-5
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
58
1 December 1759: John Hawkesworth in turn adapted Thomas Southerne's...
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.
47, 48, 53-5, 57, 59
1 September 1925: The Charleston dance appeared in England...
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1 September 1925
The Charleston dance appeared in England.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
1859: Frances Margaret Taylor (as the Authoress...
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1859
Frances Margaret Taylor
(as the Authoress of Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses) published her historical novel Tyborne, and 'who went thither in the days of Queen Elizabeth'.
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.
Dickens, Mary Angela. Mother Magdalen Taylor. Catholic Truth Society, 1928.
1688: The Occasional Conformity Act axed the recently-granted...
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1688
The Occasional Conformity Act axed the recently-granted rights of Dissenters; this process was continued by the Schism Act, 1714.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
123
29 March 1747: The poet Mark Akenside launched his periodical...
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29 March 1747
The poet Mark Akenside
launched his periodical The Museum, which ran until the following year.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
61
February 1892: An illustrated sixpenny monthly entitled...
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February 1892
An illustrated sixpenny monthly entitled the Idler began publication; it ran until March 1911.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
316-17
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Probably 1911: Ernst Mach published The History and Root...
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Probably 1911
Ernst Mach
published The History and Root of the Principle of Conservation of Energy.
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.
October 1794: The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a...
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October 1794
The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a fiercely anti-slavery poem by someone calling herself Clorinda: An Elegy to the Island of Jamaica.
Snell, Susan. Poetry by Women in the Freemasons’ Magazine, vols 1 - 11, 1793 - 1798. 16 Sept. 2016.
1982: Mary Douglas pioneered anthropological work...
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1982
Mary Douglas
pioneered anthropological work on environmentalism and risk analysis in her book Risk and Culture, written in collaboration with political scientist Aaron Wildavsky
.
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
144, 300, 302
30 August 1841: The Whig government under Melbourne fell...
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30 August 1841
The Whig government under Melbourne
fell on the issue of Corn Laws (which they failed to get through parliament) and, following an election next month, the Tory Sir Robert Peel
became Prime Minister.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
199
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...
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 February 1993: A bomb was planted at the World Trade Center,...
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26 February 1993
A bomb was planted at the World Trade Center, tallest building in New York; Islamic terrorism was suspected.
Hardy, Roger. “How China Colluded with the West in the Rise of Osama Bin Laden”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 26-7.
27
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
514
14 May 1787: The first settlers (perhaps sixty people...
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14 May 1787
The first settlers (perhaps sixty people of European descent and between three and four hundred blacks) arrived from England in Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Crooks, John Joseph. A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. Metro Books, 1972.
foreword, 364
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
108
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Lady Mary Walker
Writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, LMW
was a didactic novelist who cared for social issues and for personal morality, privileging the discussion of such issues and the communication of information over...
