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28 November 1734: The Daily Courant launched the first attack...

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28 November 1734

The Daily Courant launched the first attack on Joshua Ward for his dubious patent medicine, Ward's drop.
Wilson, Philip K. “Exposing the Secret Disease: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis in Daniel Turner’s London”. The Secret Malady, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 68-84.
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1828: The phrenologist George Combe issued his...

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1828

The phrenologist George Combe issued his Constitution of Man, a guide to phrenology which also argued that the physical brain was the key to human disposition and identity.
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
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28 October 1818: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, novelist and playwright,...

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28 October 1818

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev , novelist and playwright, was born in Orël, Russia.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Katharine Evans

KE was a Quaker minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers , published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...

February 1916: Woman's Opinion ended weekly publication...

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February 1916

Woman's Opinion ended weekly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1865: The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded...

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1865

The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded for the purpose of producing accurate, modern surveys of the Holy Land, following the English, Protestant sense of personal belonging to that part of the world.
Birch, Dinah. “Land of Pure Delight”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 24-5.
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7 September 1908: English theatre patron Annie Horniman founded...

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7 September 1908

English theatre patron Annie Horniman founded the Manchester Repertory Company , which began its first season at the renovated Gaiety Theatre , Manchester.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
397
Stevenson, John, 1946 -. British Society, 1914-45. Penguin, 1984.
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1890: An Order in Council instituted mandatory...

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1890

An Order in Council instituted mandatory retirement of all Civil Servants at sixty-five, and gave Department Heads the discretionary authority to ask an employee to retire after sixty.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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1959: Patricia Moyes published her detective novel...

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1959

Patricia Moyes published her detective novel Dead Men Don't Ski, which introduced the series detective character Henry Tibbett.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1871: The North British Review ceased publicat...

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1871

The North British Review ceased publication.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 664

1953: Maurice Girodias established Olympia Press...

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1953

Maurice Girodias established Olympia Press and Ophelia Press .
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
305, 307

Kathleen Jamie

KJ is a contemporary poet who has also published remarkable travel writing and edited poetry anthologies. She feels that her Scots nationality has been an advantage to her, enabling her to write and develop independently...
Kathleen Jamie Colour photo of Kathleen Jamie holding a copy of her book The Overhaul at the Costa Book Awards in London, 29 January 2013. Standing and shown in profile, she wears a brown-, red-, and grey-patterned dress.

1923: Norman Douglas published Together a memoir...

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1923

Norman Douglas published Together a memoir about his unusual childhood at Thüringen, Vorarlberg, Austria.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Katherine Chidley

KC was the first woman to take up her pen in the political and religious crisis of the mid seventeenth century. Her pamphlets urge parliament to replace Anglicanism not by Presbyterianism but by Independency ...

By 1750: Scotland had five newspapers, printed in...

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By 1750

Scotland had five newspapers, printed in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; meanwhile English newspaper sales totalled about 7.3 million.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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1911: At an international congress held in Paris,...

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1911

At an international congress held in Paris, international time zones each of fifteen degrees longitude were agreed on for the world.
Daston, Lorraine. “Language of Power”. London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2001, p. 3, 6.
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1850: Oxford established Honours examination schools...

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1850

Oxford established Honours examination schools in mathematics and science, ending the academic monopoly of the classics.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
X: 952

Earlier 1767: John Trusler founded the Literary Society...

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Earlier 1767

John Trusler founded the Literary Society (designed to make up for the slight attention paid to literature by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce) and the accompanying Literary Press .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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11 July 1784: Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal reported how...

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11 July 1784

Sarah Farley 's Bristol Journal reported how a lawyer had advised a lower-class man whose wife had left him that he should publicly sell her to her lover.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
213-14 and n129

1893: The Exeter Technical and University Extension...

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1893

The Exeter Technical and University Extension College was founded.
Clapp, Brian W. The University of Exeter: A History. University of Exeter, 1982.
4-7, 15, 18-20, 27, 34, 63, 116, 204, 253
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Second, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
127, 164
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
252-3

February 1907: A case of sedition was brought to trial in...

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February 1907

A case of sedition was brought to trial in the Punjab, in which the proprietor and editor of the Punjabi were convicted of inciting hatred against the government and the European community.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 834

1862: The first traffic islands designed as pedestrian...

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1862

The first traffic islands designed as pedestrian safety zones were built in Liverpool.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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12 June 1701: Important constitutional principles were...

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12 June 1701

Important constitutional principles were laid down in the Settlement Act or Act of Settlement. This formalised the outcome of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 (dashing the hopes of Jacobites), and placed the monarch in a...

: The Female School of Design was abruptly...

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Summer 1848

The Female School of Design was abruptly moved to 330 The Strand, near Drury Lane.
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
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3 September 1981: The Convention on the Elimination of All...

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3 September 1981

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1979, came into force.
“Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.