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: Shakespeare probably completed the story...

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Winter 1598-9

Shakespeare probably completed the story of his two Henry IV history plays by writing Henry V, in which the charismatic but formerly undisciplined prince makes good as national military hero.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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1792: Mary Birket or Birkett, an Irish Quaker in...

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1792

Mary Birket or Birkett , an Irish Quaker in her late teens who was resident in England, published at Dublin in two parts A Poem on the African Slave Trade. Addressed to her Own Sex.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
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1965: Ted Nelson first used the term hypertext...

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1965

Ted Nelson first used the term hypertext to refer to nonsequentially navigable information systems.
Moschovitis, Christos et al. History of the Internet. ABC-CLIO, 1999.
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1808: The Catholic Board was established in England...

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1808

The Catholic Board was established in England with the purpose of replying to printed material that opposed or criticized the institution of Roman Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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1882: Edith Shove graduated from the University...

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1882

Edith Shove graduated from the University of London, becoming the first female doctor educated in Britain.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1868: Several prehistoric skeletons were found...

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1868

Several prehistoric skeletons were found in a cave at Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter close to Les Eyzies de Tayac in the Dordogne region, France.
Jones, Steve et al., editors. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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1 November 1915: The Women's International League (British...

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1 November 1915

The Women's International League (British Section) was founded at a conference held at Westminster.
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
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Liddington, Jill. “The Women’s Peace Crusade: The History of a Forgotten Campaign”. Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb, edited by Dorothy, 1923 - 2011 Thompson, Virago, 1983, pp. 180 - 98, 244.
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Violet Fane

Writing under her pseudonym of VF , Mary Montgomerie Singleton (later Mary Montgomerie Currie) produced during the later nineteenth and very early twentieth century five collections of poetry, a verse novel, a drama, three prose...

3-30 April 1735: Sir John Barnard's bill for regulating the...

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3-30 April 1735

Sir John Barnard 's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons , but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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November 1968: At a Thanksgiving meeting of the Women's...

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November 1968

At a Thanksgiving meeting of the Women's Liberation Conference in Chicago, USA, Anne Koedt read a paper entitled The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
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1882: Midwifery became a compulsory component of...

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1882

Midwifery became a compulsory component of the medical curriculum; however, the regulation was not strictly adhered to for more than two decades.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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December 1922: Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her...

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December 1922

Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her post as a health visitor with Edmonton District Council , London, for telling mothers where to get birth control knowledge.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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1907: Florence Warden published her mystery The...

Women writers item

1907

Florence Warden published her mystery The Man with the Amber Eyes.
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.

22 October 1837: Henry David Thoreau, aged twenty, began keeping...

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22 October 1837

Henry David Thoreau , aged twenty, began keeping a diary. In twenty-five years it extended to forty-seven volumes.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
22 October 2008

14 May 1948: The UK terminated its mandate in Palestine,...

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14 May 1948

The UK terminated its mandate in Palestine, and Israel proclaimed itself an independent state. The following day, armies from five Arab states (Transjordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria) invaded Palestine.
Goldschmidt, Arthur, Jr. A Concise History of the Middle East. Third Edition, Revised and Updated, Westview, 1988.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Ovendale, Ritchie. The Longman Companion to the Middle East since 1914. Longman, 1992.
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Mrs Martin:

MM was a novelist of the revolutionary period, with reformist if not radical leanings, who consistently, intelligently tests and comments on the conventions of the genre. She is not primarily, as said in some reference...

1821: A visitor to Southern Africa, where white...

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1821

A visitor to Southern Africa, where white settlers were engaged in seizing land, wrote that they talk of shooting Bushmen with the same feelings as if the poor creatures were wild beasts.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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1886: Henry Allbutt published The Wife's Handbook,...

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1886

Henry Allbutt published The Wife's Handbook, which included a chapter on birth control.
Porter, John F., editor. The Control of Human Fertility. 2nd ed., Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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John Porter has the date of publication as 1885 rather than 1886. I have given Peter Fryer's 1886...

1384: John Wycliffe completed the first English...

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1384

John Wycliffe completed the first English translation of the Bible, and circulated it widely in manuscript.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

18 May 1827: Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder,...

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18 May 1827

Maria Marten was murdered by William Corder , near Ipswich, an event later dubbed the Red Barn Murder.
Slater, Montagu. “Introduction”. Maria Marten; or, The Murder in the Red Barn: A Victorian Melodrama, Heinemann, 1971, p. vii - xiii.
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Burton, Brian J. The Murder of Maria Marten; or, The Red Barn. C. Cambridge, 1964.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1949: The University College of North Staffordshire...

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1949

The University College of North Staffordshire was founded.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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Sybille Bedford

SB was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford's own family or circle, and which evoke...

1892: Temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton...

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1892

Temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd (1847-1897) founded the Pioneer Club in London to bring together like-minded women and provide them with a social outlet other than marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1731: John Lockman issued The Religious Ceremonies...

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1731

John Lockman issued The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Several Nations of the Known World, his translation from a French original published the same year.
Potter, Tiffany. “The Taxonomy of Relative Femininity in Representations of North American Indian Women”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 25 Oct. 2002.
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.

Joan Whitrow

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...