Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Elizabeth Ham
Though almost forgotten, EH
is remarkable as an autobiographer and even more remarkable as a the author of a single novel. Writing and publishing in the earlier nineteenth century, she also produced a grammar textbook...
Gordon, Eleanor. Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914. Clarendon, 1991, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
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1834: Mazzini and several hundred supporters planned...
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1834
Mazzini
and several hundred supporters planned an invasion of Savoy to overthrow the King of Piedmont.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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By 17 November 1675: John Dryden's heroic tragedy Aureng-Zebe...
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By 17 November 1675
John Dryden
's heroic tragedy Aureng-Zebe had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
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16 March 1904: Sir Charles McLaren introduced a motion in...
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16 March 1904
Sir Charles McLaren introduced a motion in the House of Commons That the disabilities of women in respect to the Parliamentary Franchise ought to be removed by legislation,
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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which passed by a majority of...
29 May 1585: Westminster, a small settlement near London...
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29 May 1585
Westminster, a small settlement near London with an Abbey, acquired a civic structure under the Statute of Westminster.
Barker, Felix. “Westminster 1585”. History Today, Vol.
35
, No. 6, June 1985, pp. 8-15.
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13 June 1734: A new parliament was called for this date...
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13 June 1734
A new parliament was called for this date following elections at which the opposition's aim was to shake the security of Sir Robert Walpole
's mandate.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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1715: The Society of Ancient Britons (that is,...
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1715
The Society of Ancient Britons
(that is, of people of Welsh descent) was founded among the flourishing Welsh community of London—the beginning of a movement of antiquarian nationalism.
Shippey, Tom. “Bardism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 13, 9 July 2009, pp. 27-9.
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“Iolo’s People. The London-Welsh Societies”. Iolo Morganwg.
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Elizabeth Heyrick
Though, as a woman, she worked behind the scenes (not in parliament but through print and private direct action) EH
of Leicester was a major, under-recognised figure in the campaign for the abolition of the...
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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Marie de Sévigné
MS
, who lived and wrote in seventeenth-century France, is widely regarded as one of the world's great letter-writers. The standard scholarly edition contains 1,372 letters.
The Bank of England
first began issuing, on instructions from the Treasury
, bank notes in a ten-shilling denomination (worth, that is, half of a pound).
Boggan, Steven. “Paper Chase”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, pp. Weekend 21 - 6.
Weekend 22
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Emily Shirreff
ES
lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These...
1830: Railways began carrying letters for the Post...
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1830
Railways began carrying letters for the Post Office
.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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1985: The first woman World Snooker Champion, seventeen-year-old...
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1985
The first woman World Snooker Champion, seventeen-year-old Alison Fisher
, won her first championship.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
20 September 1889: Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses...
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
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Rivers, John. Dame Rosalind Paget, 1855-1948: A Short Account of Her Life and Work. Midwives Chronicle, 1981.
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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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20 July 1871: British Columbia entered the Dominion of...
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20 July 1871
British Columbia entered the Dominion of Canada.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1650: Parliament passed an Adultery Act, which...
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1650
Parliament passed an Adultery Act, which reflected Puritan views of the sanctity of marriage by making adultery a punishable offence.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Ann Jebb
During the last quarter of the eighteenth century AJ
was an intellectual journalist and controversialist, publishing on both theological and political topics. Most of her printed writing is epistolary, and she also wrote letters then...
20 August 1831: Nat Turner began a slave rebellion in Southampton...
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20 August 1831
Nat Turner
began a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in which 60 whites were killed; afterwards, 55 enslaved blacks were executed and some 200 others murdered by white mobs.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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Early 1882: The sale of the Regent's Park Zoo's elephant...
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Early 1882
The sale of the Regent's Park Zoo
's elephant Jumbo to P.T. Barnum's circus gave rise to a loud protest in the newspapers.
Jones, Robert W. “‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to Our Clime’: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic”. Journal of Victorian Culture, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-26.
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3 March 1943: 173 people suffocated in an air-raid shelter...
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3 March 1943
173 people suffocated in an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green in London, after one person fell and others in turn fell over them.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. “Nuthouse Al”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, p. 12.
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Mrs Showes
This obscure author, whose full name remains unknown, published at least four works at and just beyond the end of the eighteenth century. All her work, novels and shorter tales, either makes the claim to...
1 July 1948: The British Labour government's Town and...
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1 July 1948
The BritishLabour
government's Town and Country Planning Act 1947, which introduced a system of planning for urban and industrial development, came into effect.
Jowit, Juliette. “Planning and placemaking: The act that built Britain”. The Observer, 27 May 2007, p. Special Report 1.
Special Report 1
Clark, Keith C. “The British Government’s Town and Country Planning Act: A Study in Conflicting Liberalisms”. Political Science Quarterly, Vol.
66
, No. 1, Mar. 1951, pp. 87-103.
87-103
April 1915: The Altruist ended publication in London...
