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1797: Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility,...

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1797

Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility, the idea that educated women might appropriately vote.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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6 June 1778: The Carlisle Peace Commission, bearing Lord...

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6 June 1778

The Carlisle Peace Commission , bearing Lord North 's proposals for conciliation with America, arrived in Philadelphia.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
112-3

1960: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...

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1960

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pregnant Women , later the Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services (AIMS), was founded in Britain to campaign for the right to have a baby free...

By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...

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By late 1996

Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot when her novel Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
Shulman, Nicola. “Some Consolations of the Single State”. Times Literary Supplement, 1 Nov. 1996, p. 26.
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1873: A puerperal fevel epidemic broke out in ...

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1873

A puerperal fevel epidemic broke out in Edinburgh.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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1881-1908: Benjamin Tucker published Liberty, an anarchist...

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1881-1908

Benjamin Tucker published Liberty, an anarchist American periodical edited in Boston, Massachusetts.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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: William Jaggard published The Passionate...

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Summer 1599

William Jaggard published The Passionate Pilgrime, a pirated miscellany including poetry by Marlowe , Shakespeare , and others; the title-page ascription to Shakespeare is unjustified.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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1902: A Conference of Jewish Women was held to...

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1902

A Conference of Jewish Women was held to discuss the philanthropic work that Jewish women were doing in their communities.
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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15 March 1936: Frederic Warburg bought Martin Secker's bankrupt...

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15 March 1936

Frederic Warburg bought Martin Secker 's bankrupt publishing house and founded Martin Secker and Warburg Limited ; Secker remained in charge of production until 1938.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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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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1844-1847: This was the period of Railway Mania....

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1844-1847

This was the period of Railway Mania.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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June 1882: The Journal of Women's Education Union ceased...

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June 1882

The Journal of Women's Education Union ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...

By November 2008: The final, posthumous work of Canadian writer...

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By November 2008

The final, posthumous work of Canadian writer Jane Rule appeared: Loving the Difficult, a volume of essays dating from a period of over thirty years.
Schuster, Marilyn R. “Of Love and Loss”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 6, Nov.–Dec. 2008, pp. 27-8.
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By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...

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By September 1735

The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
Zeitz, Lisa M. “Constructing the Past, Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 201-13.
204, 205

30 June 1914: Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter...

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30 June 1914

Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter that South African law regarding Asiatics would be justly enforced.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 715
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
892

January 1796: The Royal Edinburgh Volunteers held a high-society...

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January 1796

The Royal Edinburgh Volunteers held a high-society ball to raise money for the wives, widows, and children of soldiers
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
155, 161

Emily Shirreff

ES lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These...

1830: The T. H. Lacy publishing firm of London...

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1830

The T. H. Lacy publishing firm of London was founded by actor Thomas Hailes Lacy .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 138

1957: Britain's White Paper on Defence proposed...

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1957

Britain's White Paper on Defence proposed that compulsory military service be ended by 1962; it also emphasized reliance on nuclear deterrence and strategic reserves.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
3: 726
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...

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After 5 March 1971

Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...

July 1984: The Warnock Report, published in London,...

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July 1984

The Warnock Report, published in London, addressed issues in new reproductive technologies (NRT) after the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown , in July 1978.
Franklin, Sarah, and Jeanette et al Edwards. “Making Representations: the Parliamentary Debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act”. Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception, Manchester University Press, 1993, pp. 96-131.
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Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.
48, 51
Bennett, Catherine. “Why Warnock’s law no longer delivers”. The Guardian, 25 July 2002, p. G2 5.
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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.

4 January 1645: The official Directory for Public Worship,...

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4 January 1645

The official Directory for Public Worship, doing away with every feast or fast of the Church of England except Sunday, was published on this day, though it was not distributed until August.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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1 August 1771: Richard Arkwright and David Thornley joined...

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1 August 1771

Richard Arkwright and David Thornley joined forces with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need to rent land on which to set up a factory by the River Derwent at Cromford in Derbyshire, so that Arkwright's...

1920: Dr Hugh Crichton-Miller established the Tavistock...

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1920

Dr Hugh Crichton-Miller established the Tavistock Clinic in Tavistock Square, London, to provide psychological treatment to the general population and to further research into the prevention and treatment of mental illness.
“The Tavistock Clinic Courses and Professional Training”. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

November 2012: The Church of England caused national consternation...

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November 2012

The Church of England caused national consternation when its Synod narrowly voted down the opening of its episcopate in Britain to its first women bishops.
Wintour, Patrick, and Lizzy Davies. “Bishop vote sets state against church”. Guardian Weekly, 30 Nov. 2012, p. 16.