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1854: A Royal Commission recommended that Oxford...

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1854

A Royal Commission recommended that Oxford and Cambridge should include significantly more science in their programmes of study.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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20 March 1930: Under the Poor Law Act (1930), the old Poor...

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20 March 1930

Under the Poor Law Act (1930), the old Poor Law system became one of Public Assistance.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1930): 93-181
Raynes, Harold E. Social Security in Britain: A History. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1957.
209-210

4 March 1817: As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political...

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4 March 1817

As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political dissatisfaction) the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended as part of a package of anti-radical legislation.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
108
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
249

26 January 1950: India was inaugurated as a republic....

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26 January 1950

India was inaugurated as a republic.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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1870: In Germany, Dr Gustave Jaeger published Health...

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1870

In Germany, Dr Gustave Jaeger published Health Culture, extolling the healthful properties of woollen clothing.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
184, 7

13 May 1886: The National Association for the Repeal of...

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13 May 1886

The National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts held its last meeting. It considered its work completed following the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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11 May 1950: The play by the Romanian-French dramatist...

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11 May 1950

The play by the Romanian-French dramatist Eugene Ionesco which was later translated as The Bald Soprano (occasionally as The Bald Prima Donna) opened in Paris. For many later literary historians this signalled the...

1869: Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild sponsored the...

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1869

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild sponsored the building of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children in Southwark Bridge Road.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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1940: Rosalind Wade published another of the more...

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1940

Rosalind Wade published another of the more than thirty novels under her own name, Fairweather Faith.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1680: Mrs Frankland founded a school in Manchester...

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1680

Mrs Frankland founded a school in Manchester for the daughters of Dissenters.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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By 1895: 875 women served on Boards of Guardians....

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By 1895

875 women served on Boards of Guardians.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
284

February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
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Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.

1942: Following a police raid on the Plymouth premises...

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1942

Following a police raid on the Plymouth premises of Economy Educator Services Ltd , a destruction order for ten book titles was issued under the Act of 1857.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Toru Dutt

The writings of TD (who was born in Bengal, India, where her family originated) reveal the powerful influences both of Bengali culture and of a British colonial education. Writing for only a brief period...
Toru Dutt Black and white photograph of Toru Dutt, 1921. She stands holding a chair back in front of what looks like a wooden dresser, turned to her right but looking straight at the camera. She wears a heavy ruffled gown; her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back.

: Liberal Protestants defeated conservative...

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Summer 1847

Liberal Protestants defeated conservative Catholics in a civil war in Switzerland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
118, 302, 308
Sheehan, James J. “The German States and the European Revolution”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 246-79.
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1893: Clara Collet was appointed to the Board of...

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1893

Clara Collet was appointed to the Board of Trade .
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly review New Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
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.

1882: A fire at Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. destroyed...

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1882

A fire at Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. destroyed large numbers of books, their published stock.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998, pp. 5-13.
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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...

1667: The Quakers established Monthly Meetings...

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1667

The Quakers established Monthly Meetings to direct the business and lives of their members.
Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
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Lloyd, Arnold. Quaker Social History 1669-1738. Longman’s, Green, 1950.
109-11

1810: The independence struggles of the Spanish...

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1810

The independence struggles of the Spanish empire in South America began in what is now Bolivia (which secured its independence by a battle of 9 December 1824).
Collier, Simon. “Old Iron-Arse”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 30-1.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

4 December 1884: Prolific and highly regarded British composer...

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4 December 1884

Prolific and highly regarded British composer Alice Mary Meadows White (née Smith) died in London.
Williamson, Rosemary. “Smith, [White; Meadows White], Alice Mary”. Grove Music Online.
Graham-Jones, Ian. “Symphonies by Alice Mary Smith”. Embellishments: A Newsletter about Recent Researches, Vol.
22
, A-R Editions, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004.

By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...

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By November 1754

David Hume published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2 (1756): 385-404
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
24 (1754): 533; 29 (1759): 133
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1 January 1914: Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalg...

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1 January 1914

Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 689
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
877

1877: The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls...

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1877

The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls began publication in London, to give them good and pleasant things to think of.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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