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1895: The Yiddisher Express was founded at Leeds...

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1895

The Yiddisher Express was founded at Leeds in Yorkshire.
Lipman, Vivian David. Social History of Jews in England, 1850-1950. Watts, 1954.
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6-16 July 1995: The massacre and mass-grave burial of 7,000...

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6-16 July 1995

The massacre and mass-grave burial of 7,000 Muslims by Serbs at Srebrenica in a United Nationssafe area called into question the UN's ability to keep the peace or to mitigate war.
Guardian Weekly.
21 September 1997: 28

November 1913: Thirty guests in a London restaurant paid...

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November 1913

Thirty guests in a London restaurant paid to hear the Italian Futurist Marinetti recite, with various kinds of onomatopoeic noises and crashes in free verse.
Laity, Paul. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 40-1.
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1889: The Student Christian Movement (still active...

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1889

The Student Christian Movement (still active in the twenty-first century with its centre now in Birmingham, and called on its website the oldest student Christian Network in the UK) was founded. Its initial...

July 1659: A women's petition to parliament was headed...

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July 1659

A women's petition to parliament was headed by the names of Margaret Fell and her daughters and signed with 7,000 names.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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1615: The list of pupils attending grammar school...

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1615

The list of pupils attending grammar school at Rivington near Bolton, Lancashire, included one girl, Alice Shaw, this year, and others in the following two years.
Kay, Margaret Martha Ashton, and Ernest John Bonner. The History of Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School. Manchester University Press, 1931.
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30 November 1829: Douglas Jerrold's play Thomas à Becket was...

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30 November 1829

Douglas Jerrold 's play Thomas à Becket was performed at the Surrey Theatre .
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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1880s: The Party of Individual Liberty was founded...

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1880s

The Party of Individual Liberty was founded by Auberon Herbert .
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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17 August 1857: The Industrial Schools Act was passed....

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17 August 1857

The Industrial Schools Act was passed.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books, 1972.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1860: The Society for the Relief of Distress was...

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1860

The Society for the Relief of Distress was founded in London.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
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Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1782: The Society for Distributing Religious Tracts...

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1782

The Society for Distributing Religious Tracts among the Poor was founded.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
295

1800: The London book trade flourished at the turn...

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1800

The London book trade flourished at the turn of the century: England had about 390 circulating libraries; about 6,500 titles were issued annually, over 150 of them fiction.
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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Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1887: The Midwives' Institute developed a library...

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1887

The Midwives' Institute developed a library and the first midwifery journal.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1691: Gerard Langbaine published An Account of...

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1691

Gerard Langbaine published An Account of the English Dramatick Poets.
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.

28 March 1918: Conscription riots occurred in Quebec....

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28 March 1918

Conscription riots occurred in Quebec.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 502-3
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1924: Helen Hamilton this year published both her...

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1924

Helen Hamilton this year published both her first poetry collection, entitled Hope and Other Poems, and also (through Blackwell ) Great Meddow: Studies of Village Life.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1963: The University of East Anglia was founded...

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1963

The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
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By 28 June 1884: Ida Ashworth Taylor (the middle one of three...

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By 28 June 1884

Ida Ashworth Taylor (the middle one of three novelist sisters born at East Sheen in Surrey) published her first work: Venus' Doves, a romance.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2957 (1884): 820
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.

1829: Louis Braille, then a twenty-year-old blind...

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1829

Louis Braille , then a twenty-year-old blind instructor at the Institution Royale pour les Jeunes Aveugles in Paris, perfected his system of reading by feeling 63 different combinations of six raised dots.
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 347-8
Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
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Jane Cave

JC , eighteenth-century poet, has not received the critical attention merited by her literary ability. She is remarkable for the number of provincial centres in which she published. Having married an exciseman, she lived a...
Jane Cave Black and white oval print of Jane Cave in semi-profile, frontispiece to her first book, "Poems on Various Subjects: Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious", Winchester, 1783. She is wearing an elaborate bonnet and, and a quill pen in her hand rests on a book in a surely impossible position for writing. The oval has a brick surround with decoration top and bottom, and her name in capitals: "Miss Jane Cave".

3 November 2004: George W. Bush was re-elected President of...

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3 November 2004

George W. Bush was re-elected President of the United States.
Borger, Julian. “And now . . . four more years”. theguardian.com, 4 Nov. 2004.

1887: The weekly magazine Family Friend ceased...

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1887

The weekly magazine Family Friend ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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14 March 1773: Louise d'Epinay composed, in a letter to...

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14 March 1773

Louise d'Epinay composed, in a letter to Ferdinando Galiani , a riposte to Essai sur le charactère, les moeurs, et l'esprit des femmes by Antoine Leonard Thomas , which had appeared in early January 1772...