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6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...

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6 June 1904

A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head Press at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare bought in 1597.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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10 October 1868: Actress Ellen Terry began living out of wedlock...

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10 October 1868

Actress Ellen Terry began living out of wedlock with Edward Godwin .
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
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29 August 1833: The Mills and Factories Act, popularly known...

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29 August 1833

The Mills and Factories Act, popularly known as Shaftesbury's Act after Lord Shaftesbury or Althorp's Act after Whig minister Lord Althorp (who in 1834 became Lord Spencer) , gave power to inspectors to enforce the...

1735: The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing...

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1735

The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing previous British acts against witchcraft and replacing them with more moderate treatment, made its way through Parliament . It received royal assent on 24 March 1736.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

July 1837: Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels...

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July 1837

Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels in the Monthly Repository, New Series volume 11: a traditional Sessions of the Poets poem, with Apollo pronouncing on (here) contemporary women writers.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999.
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1947: Anna Freud founded the Hampstead Child-Therapy...

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1947

Anna Freud founded the Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic , which became a major training and research centre in child psychology.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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13 July 1863: The Bakehouse Regulation Act was passed,...

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13 July 1863

The Bakehouse Regulation Act was passed, improving both working and sanitary conditions.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1952: One of Margaret Stanley Wrench's children's...

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1952

One of Margaret Stanley Wrench 's children's book, The Rival Riding Schools, was published with illustrations from F. Furnival .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 December 1903: For their research on the radiation phenomena,...

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10 December 1903

For their research on the radiation phenomena, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Antoine Henri Becquerel .
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

1388: The Statute of Cambridge, popularly known...

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1388

The Statute of Cambridge, popularly known as the Poor Law, was passed, classifying the types of needy and designating responsibility for their care.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

1864: The X-Club, a small group of influential...

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1864

The X-Club , a small group of influential London scientists, was formed.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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Morrell, J. B. “The Patronage of Mid-Victorian Science in the University of Edinburgh”. The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gerard L’Estrange Turner, Noordhoff International, 1976, pp. 53-93.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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1850: By this year, puerperal insanity was a popular...

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1850

By this year, puerperal insanity was a popular diagnosis for post-partum depression.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Smith, Roger. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
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October 1869: Emigration proponent Maria Rye took seventy-five...

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October 1869

Emigration proponent Maria Rye took seventy-five orphaned British girls between the ages of four and twelve to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the Empire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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1947: Dublin-born, Australian-raised novelist Catherine...

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1947

Dublin-born, Australian-raised novelist Catherine Gaskin published With Every Year.
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.

October 1867: Dr Thomas J. Barnardo established his first...

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October 1867

Dr Thomas J. Barnardo established his first home for destitute children at Stepney, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1517: A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge...

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1517

A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge followed within three years.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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Anne Whitehead

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger...

June 1810: The dual-action or pedal harp was invented...

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June 1810

The dual-action or pedal harp was invented by Sébastien Erard : it quickly became a drawing-room success, and is still in use in concert halls.
CBC Arts Report. CBC Radio 2.
“A History of Sebastian Erard, Piano and Harp Maker”. U. K. Piano Page: Piano History.

1877: J. Mortimer Granville contributed five chapters...

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1877

J. Mortimer Granville contributed five chapters to The Borderlands of Insanity, an attempt to categorize insanity and to identify borderland areas of the mind, where deviance and eccentricity lurked.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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18 November 2017: A group of poets and academics calling itself...

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18 November 2017

A group of poets and academics calling itself FIRED! , formed to protest the absence of women from the new Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, held its first event, at an arts centre in Belfast.
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon. Jan. 2018, http://awomanpoetspledge.com/about-us/.

21 February 1965: Malcolm X, controversial African-American...

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21 February 1965

Malcolm X , controversial African-American nationalist, was assassinated as he began a speech to followers at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
“Black nationalist leader shot dead”. BBC News: On This Day, 21 Feb. 1965.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
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February 1913: The Women's Social and Political Union began...

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February 1913

The Women's Social and Political Union began a concerted campaign of destruction of public and private property.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Dorothy L. Sayers

DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...
Dorothy L. Sayers Bronze statue of Dorothy L. Sayers in Witham, England.

Clemence Dane

CD wrote, during the earlier twentieth century, over thirty plays for the stage, radio, and screen, in addition to her journalism and other non-fiction, and fourteen fictional works ranging from girls' school novels to detective...
Clemence Dane Black and white photograph of Clemence Dane, shown from the shoulders up, and posed with her body on an angle and her face turned to face the camera directly. She is wearing a black shirt with a long, dark, beaded necklace, and she has short, dark hair.

March-June 1670: The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of...

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March-June 1670

The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis probably written by Mary Roper , dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza , was beautifully transcribed for presentation.
Millman, Jill Seal. “’The Sacred Historie’: Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2, A Royalist Verse Paraphrase of Genesis by a Woman, c. 1670”. Leviathan to Licensing Act (1650-1737): Theatre, Print and their Contexts Conference, Loughborough, 15 Sept. 2004.