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23 March 1603: The English conquest of Ireland was completed...

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23 March 1603

The English conquest of Ireland was completed when Hugh O'Neill submitted to the English forces there; he would not have done this had he known of the imminent death of Queen Elizabeth .
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.

1937: The Reader's Union was established....

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1937

The Reader's Union was established.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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3 November 1869: Clara A. Swain, pioneering medical missionary,...

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3 November 1869

Clara A. Swain , pioneering medical missionary, set sail from New York for Bareilly in India.
Hoskins, Mrs Robert. Clara A. Swain, M.D. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society/Methodist Episcopal Church, 1912, http://University of Waterloo Library.
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9 December 2006-17 July 2007: The National Portrait Gallery in London mounted...

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9 December 2006-17 July 2007

The National Portrait Gallery in London mounted an exhibition of photographs of women writers, mostly novelists, from 1920 to 1960.
“Women writers through the lens”. Mslexia, No. 33, Apr. 2007, p. 7.
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July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Fenton

EF is known for her single, posthumously published travel book, selected from the journals she kept during her voyages from the British Isles to India and from there to Mauritius and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)...

1788: The Philanthropic Society was founded (to...

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1788

The Philanthropic Society was founded (to reform criminal children).
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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: Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary...

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Spring 1859

Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary arguments for human antiquity appeared, scant months before Darwin 's Origin of Species was published.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Nina Bawden

Writing in and beyond the second half of the twentieth century, NB produced more than forty novels: twenty-three for adults and twenty children. Not all can be noticed here. She said that she often did...
Nina Bawden Photo of Nina Bawden in front of a row of small houses with stone facades, wearing a blue coat and a black hat, 1974.

1715: Sybilla Masters, visiting England from America,...

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1715

Sybilla Masters , visiting England from America, applied for a patent for some undisclosed invention or process.
MacLeod, Christine. Inventing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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1882: Edith Shove graduated from the University...

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1882

Edith Shove graduated from the University of London, becoming the first female doctor educated in Britain.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...

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About 1411

The University of St Andrews was founded by Henry Wardlaw , Bishop of St Andrews, Scotland.
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
III: 302
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
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Some sources note that this founding could have taken place as early as 1410.

28 November 1918: Wilhelm II of Germany, the Kaiser, who had...

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28 November 1918

Wilhelm II of Germany, the Kaiser, who had fled to Holland, abdicated following the Berlin Revolution of 9 November 1918.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Norah Lofts

Throughout her long and prolific career, NL published meticulously researched her popular historical novels, short stories, historical biographies, crime and mystery novels, children's books, magazine pieces, and non-fictional works about history and superstitions.. Lofts varies...
Norah Lofts Black-and-white photo of Norah Lofts sitting at a desk for a book signing. Behind her are stacks of bookstore shelves. She has cat-eye glasses and wears a floral dress. People are gathered around her holding her books out to be signed.

1941: Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day...

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1941

Defence Regulations allowed a £5 per day fine to be levied on anyone refusing to comply with a government work-order; severe fines and prison terms were imposed on conscientious objectors and pacifists.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1887: Elizabeth A. Sharp published, as Mrs William...

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1887

Elizabeth A. Sharp published, as Mrs William Sharp, Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch, and Irish Women.
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.
Sharp, Elizabeth A., editor. Women Poets of the Victorian Era. Walter Scott, 1889.
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1928: Artist Pearl Binder held a one-person exhibition...

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1928

Artist Pearl Binder held a one-person exhibition at the Moffat Gallery in London.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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As early as 1885: Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission...

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As early as 1885

Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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11 February 1888: The UK gained a protectorate over Matabeleland...

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11 February 1888

The UK gained a protectorate over Matabeleland and Mashonaland (Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe) by treaty with Chief Lobengula.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 587
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1896: Margaret Louisa Woods published Wild Justice:...

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1896

Margaret Louisa Woods published Wild Justice: A Dramatic Poem.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1892: Women were first allowed to become members...

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1892

Women were first allowed to become members of the Congregational Union Assembly .
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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Harriet Smythies

HS launched a forty-five-year career in 1835 with a romantic, historical, narrative poem. Her later poems, all of substantial length, deal with contemporary public events. She set her name to these (after the first) but...

Edith Templeton

The fiction of ET , novelist, short-story writer, and travel writer, acquired a high reputation for its force and distinctive style and tone, and notoriety for a degree of sexual explicitness rare in serious women...
Edith Templeton Black-and-white photo of Edith Templeton and V S Pritchett smoking cigarettes as they chat at a party celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Book Society, Knightsbridge, London, 1946.

4 May 1970: Members of the Ohio National Guard opened...

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4 May 1970

Members of the OhioNational Guard opened fire on students of Kent State University demonstrating peacefully against the Vietnam War (specifically, against Nixon 's sending ground troops to Cambodia). Four students (two of each...

By June 1893: Sir Charles Hallé founded the Royal Manchester...

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By June 1893

Sir Charles Hallé founded the Royal Manchester College of Music.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2025.
7: 290; 8: 119