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1981: The Black Cultural Archives, focused on the histories of African and Caribbean people in the United Kingdom, was founded by Len Garrison and colleagues.

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1981

The Black Cultural Archives , focused on the histories of African and Caribbean people in the United Kingdom, was founded by Len Garrison and colleagues.
“About”. Black Cultural Archives, https://blackculturalarchives.org/about.

1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...

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1886

Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Alicia D'Anvers

ADA is a remarkably skilled and hard-hitting verse satirist of the late Restoration period, who writes about international politics and about the misogynist, ingrown, self-satisfied culture of the university to whose press her father was...

By 14 October 1865: George Meredith published the three-volume...

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By 14 October 1865

George Meredith published the three-volume novel Rhoda Fleming.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

October 1891: William Robertson Nicoll developed The Bookman...

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October 1891

William Robertson Nicoll developed The Bookman as a popular London monthly of informal literary discussion and essays.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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.

March 1815: Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba,...

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March 1815

Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba, and marched northwards through France, gathering an army for a further military showdown with the nations of Europe.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

November 1940: Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping...

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November 1940

Three out of every five Londoners were sleeping in homes threatened or damaged by bombing; yet a census this month showed that 60 per cent did not leave home for shelter when air-raid sirens sounded...

27 August 1971: Bahrain became independent from Britain....

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27 August 1971

Bahrain became independent from Britain.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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8 September 1705: On this day, according to Defoe's True Relation...

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8 September 1705

On this day, according to Defoe 's True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (published next year), the phantom of a young woman who had just died paid a call on a friend.
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, 1822 - 1894, George Routledge, 1889.
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December 1951: John Villiers Sankey began producing, on...

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December 1951

John Villiers Sankey began producing, on a hand press housed in his bedroom, a little magazine called The Window, which he also edited.
Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

9 October 1962: Uganda became independent within the Com...

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9 October 1962

Uganda became independent within the Commonwealth.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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21 July 1945: Just before the general election, Marie Belloc...

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21 July 1945

Just before the general election, Marie Belloc Lowndes reported that empty houses in London were being requisitioned because of the housing shortage caused by bombing.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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1860: Albert Niemann isolated the drug cocaine...

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1860

Albert Niemann isolated the drug cocaine from the leaves of the coca bush.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
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1913: In London, the Malthusian League published...

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1913

In London, the Malthusian League published a pamphlet, Hygienic Methods of Family Limitation, for distribution among the working classes: it advocated withdrawal, douching and condoms as birth control methods.
Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...

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From 1662

The King's Library (now part of the British Library ) and Cambridge University Library enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian on 11...

July 1800: A new Combination Act, modifying that of...

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July 1800

A new Combination Act, modifying that of 12 July 1799, outlawed trade unions and strikes.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
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Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
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Very early 1136: The Welsh Princess Gwenllian, likely author...

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Very early 1136

The Welsh Princess Gwenllian , likely author of Four Branches of the Mabinogi, died.
Breeze, Andrew. The Origins of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Gracewing, 2009.
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Lloyd, John Edward. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, Volume 2. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1967.
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Pierce, Thomas Jones. “GWENLLIAN”. Welsh Biography Online.

20 January 1672: Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript...

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20 January 1672

Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript book of poetry and prose which was acquired by Yale University in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
May, James E. “Scribleriana Transferred: Recent Listings and Acquisition”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
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1932: The White Cross Society published a Christian...

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1932

The White Cross Society published a Christian manual offering instructions on mutual orgasm.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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21 January 1859: Henry Hallam, historian and father of Arthur...

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21 January 1859

Henry Hallam , historian and father of Arthur Henry Hallam , died.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1904: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the...

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1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
“RADA: A Brief History”. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

2 May 1814: A committee charged with investigating abuses...

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2 May 1814

A committee charged with investigating abuses at Bedlam made a visit of inspection and found inmates treated like vermin.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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1 January 1890: Edward Arnold founded his own publishing...

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1 January 1890

Edward Arnold founded his own publishing house in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Anna Maria Hall

AMH was an extremely prolific writer whose literary career spanned the pre- and later Victorian periods. She wrote many stories, nine novels, some children's literature, three plays, a pamphlet, and a travel book. She also...
Anna Maria Hall Black and white print of a portrait of Anna Maria Hall painted by Henry Thomas Ryall in the 1830s. She sits in a chair looking down and to the left, wearing a dark dress with a V neck, with flowers at her bosom and a crucifix hanging below. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in short ringlets adorned with a large rose. She has a watch on her right wrist and holds a book in both hands. National Gallery of Wales.

5 December 1941: Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary,...

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5 December 1941

Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary, and Romania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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