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21 February 1931: The Nation and Athenæum (formerly the famous...

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21 February 1931

The Nation and Athenæum (formerly the famous Victorian journal The Athenæum) finally ceased publication.
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.

1932: The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career...

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1932

The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career with a study of metaphysics and Alfred North Whitehead in her work Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism which is particularly useful for its elucidation of terminology.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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1884: The Conjoint Board of Examiners was established...

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1884

The Conjoint Board of Examiners was established to ensure physicians' proficiency in obstetrics, medicine, and surgery; this debarred the partly-qualified from entering the profession.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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26 July 1931: A religious sect called the Bible Students,...

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26 July 1931

A religious sect called the Bible Students, founded about 1872 by Charles Taze Russell , changed their name to Jehovah's Witnesses .
Penton, M. James. Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
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Enid Blyton

EB was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy...

1826: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced a permanent...

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1826

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced a permanent positive image on pewter coated with bitumen of Judea; he called the process heliography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
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20 February 1909: F. T. Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism,...

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20 February 1909

F. T. Marinetti 's Founding Manifesto of Futurism, declaring the Futurists' intent to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, was published on the front page of Le Figaro,
Fisher, Mark. “Objections to the Object”. Times Literary Supplement, 22 Mar. 2002, pp. 13-14.
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1968: An English translation of Rabelais and His...

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1968

An English translation of Rabelais and His World (the doctoral dissertation of Mikhail Bakhtin , which had been rejected by the examiners in 1946) was published in the USA by MIT Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1926: Reading University received its charter;...

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1926

Reading University received its charter; it had existed until a couple of years previously as Reading College.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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“About the University of Reading”. The University of Reading.

17 February 1772: Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for...

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17 February 1772

Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for fourteen years of sole rights to a medicine, called Velno's Vegetable Syrup, which was alleged to cure venereal disease.
McAllister, Marie E. “John Burrows and the Vegetable Wars”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 85-102.
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April 1759: London publishers launched an expensive campaign...

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April 1759

London publishers launched an expensive campaign to curb pirated reprints from Dublin, Edinburgh, and English provincial centres.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82.
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17 May 1916: The Summer Time Act received royal assent:...

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17 May 1916

The Summer Time Act received royal assent: a wartime measure to make official time in Britain move one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or GMT, for the summer months only (in the first instance...

9 January 1799: A bill bringing in the first graduated income...

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9 January 1799

A bill bringing in the first graduated income tax resulted from William Pitt 's demand in December 1798 for increased taxation to fund the war with France.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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5 March 1856: Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by f...

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5 March 1856

Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire.
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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25 March 1901: Sarah Angelina Acland, pioneer of colour...

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25 March 1901

Sarah Angelina Acland , pioneer of colour photography, showed her first exhibition of completed slides to a meeting of the Oxford Camera Club . She used the new Sanger-Shepherd process, which dated from October 1899...

1900: Bertha Thomas published her last novel, The...

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1900

Bertha Thomas published her last novel, The Son of the House. Her last book, a volume of stories, came twelve years later.
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1886: The Conference of Typographical Societies...

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1886

The Conference of Typographical Societies moved to recommend women's admission to typographical unions provided that they were paid equal wages.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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15 February 1685: James II went publicly to Mass for the first...

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15 February 1685

James II went publicly to Mass for the first time since succeeding to the throne.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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29 December 1621: The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively...

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29 December 1621

The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively written by Thomas Dekker , John Ford , William Rowley and others, had its first specifically recorded performance, among the Court's Christmas entertainments; it had reached the...

1918: Guests of the Heart, a short collection of...

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1918

Guests of the Heart, a short collection of essays and speeches, was published by Peggy Webling .
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1971: Sexual discrimination in hiring practices...

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1971

Sexual discrimination in hiring practices was outlawed in the USA.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1894: Women gained admission to the Medico-Psychological...

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1894

Women gained admission to the Medico-Psychological Association .
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1870: The National Association for the Promotion...

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1870

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Purity was founded to ensure purity as the law of individual and social life.
Hunt, Alan. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Hunt, Alan. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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“Guide to Sources: Archives, Libraries and Museums”. Genesis: Developing Access to Women’s History Sources in the British Isles.

1866: Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded...

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1866

Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded the Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society to provide a serious course of lectures for women.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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