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1885: The Lady: A Journal for Gentlewomen, issued...

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1885

The Lady: A Journal for Gentlewomen, issued weekly, began publishing in London.
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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19 August 1775: Exactly three months after the battle of...

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19 August 1775

Exactly three months after the battle of Lexington, bluestocking Frances Boscawen , still eaten up with anxiety for her only surviving son, demanded rhetorically whether the colonies would, when destroyed, yield either taxes or traffic?
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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1167: Oxford University was founded....

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1167

Oxford University was founded.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
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1850: Scottish doctor Robert Knox in The Races...

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1850

Scottish doctor Robert Knox in The Races of Men posited racial difference as the foundation of human conflict; a second edition followed in 1862.
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Kaplan, Cora, and Dinah Mulock Craik. “Introduction”. Olive; and, The Half-Caste, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xxv.
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Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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1290: King Edward I expelled all remaining Jews...

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1290

King Edward I expelled all remaining Jews from England. According to Michelene Wandor 's The Music of the Prophets, they were to be gone by All Saints' Day, November the first.
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
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Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications, 2006.
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3 June 1956: A bookstore assistant at City Lights of San...

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3 June 1956

A bookstore assistant at City Lights of San Francisco was arrested for selling a copy of Howl, a small-size verse pamphlet by the young beat poet Allen Ginsberg .
Campbell, James, 1951 -. “To save America”. The Guardian, 2 June 2007, p. Review 22.
Review 22
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 October 2009, 25 March 2011

July 1757: Lloyd's Evening Post, established by Thomas...

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July 1757

Lloyd's Evening Post, established by Thomas Kinnersley , joined those London newspapers selected by publishers for book advertising.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
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, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
155, 157, 160

16 June 1922: The Irish Free State held a General Election....

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16 June 1922

The Irish Free State held a General Election. A large majority of Sinn Féin candidates were in favour of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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1778: The House of Commons barred women from attending...

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1778

The House of Commons barred women from attending debates to listen from the gallery, as they had often done until then.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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June 1820: William Pickering established his own bookshop...

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June 1820

William Pickering established his own bookshop and publishing firm at 31 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; he specialized in the antiquarian book trade.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 246

1946: Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum was taken...

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1946

Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum was taken into special relation with the University of London .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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1567: George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles...

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1567

George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham), a translation of Ovid 's Heroides.
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Lyne, Raphael. A Case for Isabella Whitney: Aeneas and Isabella Homepage. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/aeneas/attrib.htm.

1926: Marie Rambert founded the Ballet Rambert,...

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1926

Marie Rambert founded the Ballet Rambert , Britain's oldest ballet company.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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20 November 1926: The Commonwealth became the new name of the...

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20 November 1926

The Commonwealth became the new name of the former British Empire.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

1877: The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland...

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1877

The Elizabeth Stone who published as Sutherland Menzies issued under her pseudonym a two history books this year in the CollinsSchool Series.
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1980: Carolyn Merchant published a major feminist...

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1980

Carolyn Merchant published a major feminist statement about science:
Hacking, Ian. “Almost Zero”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 29-30.
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution.
Hacking, Ian. “Almost Zero”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 29-30.
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1841: Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail...

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1841

Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov completed The Demon before his death in a duel in July of this year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1874: The Yorkshire College of Science was founded;...

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1874

The Yorkshire College of Science was founded; it became the University of Leeds in 1904.
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
198, 249
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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25 May 1720: The printer Catherine Clifton, questioned...

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25 May 1720

The printer Catherine Clifton , questioned by government authorities about printing a Jacobite ballad, said she had it by barter with one Ann a Ballad Singer, whose last name she did not know.
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
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23 January 1875: Charles Kingsley, clergyman and novelist,...

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23 January 1875

Charles Kingsley , clergyman and novelist, husband of Fanny Kingsley and father of Mary St Leger Kingsley (who later wrote as Lucas Malet ), died at Eversley, Hampshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1857: Ellen Ranyard's employment of Bible-Women...

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1857

Ellen Ranyard 's employment of Bible-Women in charitable work was the first instance of paid social work.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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3 November 1882: The Scottish National Demonstration of Women...

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3 November 1882

The Scottish National Demonstration of Women was held.
King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
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7 August 1866: The Sanitary Act was passed....

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7 August 1866

The Sanitary Act was passed.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
199, 201
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

26 May 1868: A Ladies Conference of the National Temperance...

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26 May 1868

A Ladies Conference of the National Temperance League was held in London.
Hall, Anna Maria, and National Temperance League. “Introduction”. Woman’s Work in the Temperance Reformation, W. Tweedie, 1868.
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October 1870: Elizabeth Garrett was asked to stand for...

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October 1870

Elizabeth Garrett was asked to stand for the London School Board elections in the local area of Marylebone.
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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