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6 January 1883: Alice Acland, in the Women's Corner column...

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6 January 1883

Alice Acland , in the Women's Corner column of the Co-operative News, criticised women's limited role in the Co-operative Movement.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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1823-1825: Two thousand three hundred Irish families...

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1823-1825

Two thousand three hundred Irish families were relocated to Canada; their passage was the most major such scheme yet funded by the state.
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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Hester Shaw

HS , a wealthy London businesswoman (midwife and moneylender) in the mid-sixteenth century, published either two or three pamphlets attacking the minister of her church: not on religious grounds but in a quarrel over property.

Elizabeth Freke

The early-eighteenth-century remembrances of EF were edited in 1913 as a diary, but are regarded by their latest editor as a heterogenous group of two commonplace-books and other papers, together making up a life-story dominated...

1 April 1974: New, enlarged local authorities were created...

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1 April 1974

New, enlarged local authorities were created in England and Wales, in a complete re-organization of local government.
Ray, Sheila G. The Blyton Phenomenon. Andre Deutsch, 1982.
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1965: Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied...

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1965

Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied an introdction for Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By December 1919: Peggy Webling published Verses to Men, a...

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By December 1919

Peggy Webling published Verses to Men, a collection of her poetry.
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
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1967: Dress designer and interior decorator Laura...

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1967

Dress designer and interior decorator Laura Ashley opened her first London shop, in Kensington.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1892: Of the fifty-four prisons in Britain holding...

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1892

Of the fifty-four prisons in Britain holding female convicts, twenty-nine accepted the services of lady visitors.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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29 July 1771: The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus...

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29 July 1771

The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus in Uppsala to offer him biological specimens from New York State.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1930: Talcott Parsons published the first English...

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1930

Talcott Parsons published the first English translation of Max Weber 's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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.

1888: J. A. Froude published his influential and...

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1888

J. A. Froude published his influential and imperialist The English in the West Indies.
Edwards, Paul. “Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. The Black Presence in English Literature, edited by David Dabydeen and David Dabydeen, Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 50-67.
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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.
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.

11 May 1699: The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious...

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11 May 1699

The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious misogynist wedding sermon at Sherborne in Dorset.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
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November 1938: The Movement for the Care of Children from...

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November 1938

The Movement for the Care of Children from Germany was formed in Britain in response to the murder of Jews at Kristallnacht; Kindertransport ships carried child refugees from Germany.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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1789: Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the...

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1789

Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the Plants, as the second part of his scientific poem The Botanic Garden.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

13 March 1895: Arthur Wing Pinero's New Woman play The Notorious...

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13 March 1895

Arthur Wing Pinero 's New Woman play The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith opened at the Garrick Theatre in London.
Chothia, Jean, editor. The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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April 1789: The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward's...

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April 1789

The Gentleman's Magazine published Anna Seward 's selection of living celebrated Female Poets.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 292

June 1853: The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated...

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June 1853

The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated Assault Upon Women and Children made wife assault punishable by up to six months imprisonment or a £20 fine.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
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, 1878, pp. 55-87.
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1912: Karen Horney worked at Privat-Heil-und-Pflegeanstalt...

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1912

Karen Horney worked at Privat-Heil-und-Pflegeanstalt hur Weibliche Giesteskranke (Private Health and Care Institution / Mental Hospital for Women).
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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June 1897: Composer Edward Elgar's first London success...

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June 1897

Composer Edward Elgar 's first London success occurred with his Imperial March, composed for Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
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Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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April 1900: Doves Press was founded at Hammersmith by...

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April 1900

Doves Press was founded at Hammersmith by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker ; with the Kelmscott Press , it made a major contribution to the revival of fine printing.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Later May 1924: The Workers' Birth Control Group was formed....

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Later May 1924

The Workers' Birth Control Group was formed. The group's formation was intended to bring birth control supporters in the Labour and Co-operative ranks together.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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1881: The first practical unicycle was produced...

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1881

The first practical unicycle was produced in England.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1916: August Strindberg's play The Ghost Sonata,...

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1916

August Strindberg 's play The Ghost Sonata, written in Swedish in 1907, appeared posthumously in English.
Magill, Frank N., editor. Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series. Salem Press, 1986, 6 vols.
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From 1933: The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain...

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From 1933

The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain began; by 1939 about 56,000 people, including more than ten thousand children, had arrived from old and new German territories including Czechoslovakia.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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