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August 1953: Scientist Gregory Pincus, working for G....

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August 1953

Scientist Gregory Pincus , working for G. D. Searle , patented a compound very similar to synthetic oestrogen (first made in Syntex labs nearly two years before) and set about using it, as Syntex had...

1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...

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1955

Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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October-November 1792: News of the prison massacres in France turned...

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October-November 1792

News of the prison massacres in France turned moderate English opinion against the Revolution.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...

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21 June 1937

The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1870s: During this decade, bills proposing the repeal...

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1870s

During this decade, bills proposing the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts were introduced nearly every year.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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: Karen Horney, after completing one year of...

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Summer 1910

Karen Horney , after completing one year of her medical degree at the University of Berlin , was distressed to discover she was pregnant.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147

22 November 1994: Rosemary West was given ten life sentences...

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22 November 1994

Rosemary West was given ten life sentences for the sex murders of ten young women and girls, who were mostly then buried at her house in Gloucester.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1888: The Ladies' Gallery at the House of Commons...

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1888

The Ladies' Gallery at the House of Commons was closed on account of suffragists repeatedly shouting from it in order to disrupt parliamentary proceedings.
Cesvette, Debbie, and Isobel Grundy. Email about the Ladies’ Gallery in the British House of Commons to Isobel Grundy. 23 June 2004.

1765: Isaac Teale, in The Sable Venus: An Ode,...

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1765

Isaac Teale , in The Sable Venus: An Ode, unselfconsciously combined facts about the slave trade with a mythologised triumph of black Venus, arriving in Jamaica from Africa to the plaudits of colonists.
Bhattacharya, Nandini. “Family Jewels: George Colmans Inkle and Yarico and Connoisseurship”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2001, pp. 207-26.
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1750: The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed...

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1750

The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna .
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1884: The Ladies Lavatory Company was founded this...

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1884

The Ladies Lavatory Company was founded this year and opened its first toilet establishment at Oxford Circus, London.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...

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27 September 1831

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded at a meeting in York.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
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Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
108, 129
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
I: 95
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
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11 March 1791: Pope Pius VI condemned the French Revolution,...

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11 March 1791

Pope Pius VI condemned the French Revolution, in particular the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...

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1885

Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare 's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

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1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25.
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October 1886-January 1887: The Graphic serialised with illustrations...

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October 1886-January 1887

The Graphic serialised with illustrations H. Rider Haggard 's exotic imperialist (and racist and sexist) adventure novel She, which features a hitherto-immortal Queen ruling in the heart of Africa.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Rundell, Katherine. “Fashionable Gore”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 3 Apr. 2014, pp. 33-4.
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1 December 1881: The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance...

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1 December 1881

The Schoolmistress, devoted to the furtherance of female education, began weekly 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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1868: Several prehistoric skeletons were found...

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1868

Several prehistoric skeletons were found in a cave at Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter close to Les Eyzies de Tayac in the Dordogne region, France.
Jones, Steve et al., editors. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Lady Hester Pulter

LHP was a seventeenth-century poet of great skill and subtlety, whose work (transcribed into a handsome manuscript volume) remained unknown until recently because she published none of it. Her writing includes verse emblems and a...

25 April 1913: The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary...

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25 April 1913

The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act) received royal assent; the Act empowered authorities to release hunger-strikers from prison long enough for them to regain their health, after which they were...

24 October 1945: The United Nations officially came into existence...

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24 October 1945

The United Nations officially came into existence with fifty-one member nations.
“History of the United Nations”. The United Nations.

1915: Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published one...

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1915

Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published one of her several novels, The Kaleidoscope.
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.

1856: Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des...

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1856

Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des Hôspitaux de Paris at La Salpêtrière .
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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November 1896: The White Ribbon, a temperance movement monthly,...

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November 1896

The White Ribbon, a temperance movement monthly, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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6 November 1941: In a memorandum on manpower, Winston Churchill...

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6 November 1941

In a memorandum on manpower, Winston Churchill urged that the existing power to channel women into the industrial labour force be used with greater intensity.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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