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August 1938: Theodore Thomas MacDonald founded the publishing...

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August 1938

Theodore Thomas MacDonald founded the publishing firm T. T. MacDonald at Ludgate House, 110 Fleet Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...

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1704

A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...

1849: M. Jolly-Bellin of Paris accidentally invented...

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1849

M. Jolly-Bellin of Paris accidentally invented dry-cleaning.
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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: The Anglican Community of St John the Baptist...

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Ascension day 1851

The Anglican Community of St John the Baptist was established in Clewer, near Windsor.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
304, 308

May 1877: G. W. Hunt composed the famous Jingo Song...

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May 1877

G. W. Hunt composed the famous Jingo Song (We don't want to fight, / But, by jingo, if we do!).
Russell, Dave. Popular Music in England, 1840-1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press, 1987.
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April 1860: Mazzini's supporters instigated revolt among...

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April 1860

Mazzini 's supporters instigated revolt among nationalists in Sicily.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1974: The manufacturer of the Dalkon Shield, an...

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1974

The manufacturer of the Dalkon Shield, an intra-uterine device first introduced in 1971, admitted that it could cause septic spontaneous abortions in mid-pregnancy.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1868: The Globe Theatre or Royal Globe Theatre,...

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1868

The Globe Theatre or Royal Globe Theatre, with a narrow frontage on Newcastle Street, London, opened its doors.
“The Royal Globe Theatre, Newcastle Street, London”. arthurlloyd.co.uk.

By 18 July 1846: Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin...

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By 18 July 1846

Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin Robert Haydon (who had killed himself in June this year) appeared in print. It put forward influential new theories of art education, state patronage, and industrial design.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
977 (1846): 737

30 July 1855: An amendment to the Public Libraries Act...

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30 July 1855

An amendment to the Public Libraries Act gave libraries the power to provide schools of science and art.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

Susan Miles

SM (who began publishing under her birth name of Ursula Roberts) was a poet and novelist of the earlier twentieth century, who also published a suffrage pamphlet, an admiring biography of her Christian-socialist husband, and...

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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June 1968: Machinists at the Ford plant at Dagenham...

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June 1968

Machinists at the Ford plant at Dagenham in Essex went on strike for equal pay: a strike which was important in the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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3 April 1867: Isaac Baker Brown was expelled from the Obstetrical...

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3 April 1867

Isaac Baker Brown was expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London for failing to obtain patients' consent for performing clitoridectomies.
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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23 April 1918: The Irish Trades Union Congress organized...

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23 April 1918

The Irish Trades Union Congress organized a one-day strike against conscription; women involved protested the Conscription Act and pledged not to take jobs vacated by men who had been forced into military service.
Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2026, 10 vols.
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Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism. Pluto, 1983.
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1819: A Royal Navy squadron became active off West...

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1819

A Royal Navy squadron became active off West Africa, fighting the continuance of the slave trade, which had been abolished on 1 May 1807.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii, 309

1958: The Anglican bishops, meeting at the Lambeth...

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1958

The Anglican bishops, meeting at the Lambeth Conference, voted to accept the use of contraceptives for family planning purposes.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
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5 July 1758: The Universal Chronicle complained of the...

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5 July 1758

The Universal Chronicle complained of the inappropriateness, in the heart of London, of a market (Smithfield) for live cattle, tortured as they generally are, and made mad.
Woodruff, James F. “Two More Johnson Pieces in the Universal Chronicle?”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 59-70.
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15 June 1215: King John signed the Magna Carta or Great...

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15 June 1215

King John signed the Magna Carta or Great Charter at Runnymede (near Egham, Surrey) at the behest of powerful barons.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Gillingham, John. “The Early Middle Ages (1066-1290)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 104-65.
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By about 1850: Stethoscopes, thermometers, and pulse watches...

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By about 1850

Stethoscopes, thermometers, and pulse watches were in use in the UK.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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11 February 1939: Austrian physicists Lisa Meitner and Otto...

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11 February 1939

Austrian physicists Lisa Meitner and Otto Frisch , her nephew, published a paper in Nature describing nuclear fission and coining the term.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Rayner-Canham, Marlene F., and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. A Devotion to their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity. McGill-Queens University Press, 1997.
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10 May 1871: The Treaty of Frankfurt ended the Franco-Prussian...

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10 May 1871

The Treaty of Frankfurt ended the Franco-Prussian War, and decreed that France should cede Alsace and eastern Lorraine to Germany.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
236, 257

April 2005: Béa González, Spanish-born Canadian novelist,...

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April 2005

Béa González , Spanish-born Canadian novelist, published her second novel, the magic-realist The Mapmaker's Opera, set in late nineteenth-century Spain and Mexico. Her first was The Bitter Taste of Time, 1998.
Canton, Jeffrey. “Reviews. The Mapmaker’s Opera by Béa Gonzalez”. Quill and Quire, Apr. 2005.
“Playwrights. Victor Kazan”. doollee.com.

Mary Chandler

MC , writing in the earlier eighteenth century, became famous for a single poem, the A Description of Bath, whose chief interest is the way it functions as part of a local tourist economy...
Mary Chandler Colour photograph of a fountain in the Grand Pump Room in Bath, offering the curative Bath waters which provided Mary Chandler's livelihood and were the central subject of her poem.

1879: Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler,...

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1879

Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler , sister of poet Alice Meynell , fought unsuccessfully to become the first woman elected as a Royal Academy member.
Casteras, Susan P., and Linda H. Peterson. A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors. Yale Center for British Art, 1994.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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