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11 February 1944: Mass-Observation published the results of...

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11 February 1944

Mass-Observation published the results of a survey of 10,000 readers in a report for the National Book Council entitled Books and the Public.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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1831: Members of the female auxiliary were allowed...

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1831

Members of the female auxiliary were allowed to attend Bible Society public meetings.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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February 1972: US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable...

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February 1972

US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable step of visiting Beijing with Henry Kissinger for discussions with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung , restoring relations between China and the USA.
Schell, Orville. “Realpolitik’s finest hour”. Guardian Weekly, 16–22 Mar. 2007, p. 25.
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1828: Thomas Moore published his satirical and...

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1828

Thomas Moore published his satirical and (Irish) nationalist Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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3 October 1906: Britain's new battleship, the Dreadnought,...

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3 October 1906

Britain's new battleship, the Dreadnought, began sea trials.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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December 1913: The Society of Scottish Artists exhibited...

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December 1913

The Society of Scottish Artists exhibited post-Impressionist works by Cézanne , Gauguin , Matisse and Van Gogh , as well as Duncan Grant and John Duncan Fergusson .
Hardie, William. Scottish Painting, 1837 to the Present. Studio Vista, 1990.
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MacMillan, Duncan. Scottish Art, 1460-1990. Mainstream Publishing, 1990.
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1810: The first Factory Act (a response mainly...

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1810

The first Factory Act (a response mainly to conditions of employment of young children) established the principle of the government's right to intervene in working conditions set by employers.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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14 May 1787: The first settlers (perhaps sixty people...

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14 May 1787

The first settlers (perhaps sixty people of European descent and between three and four hundred blacks) arrived from England in Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Crooks, John Joseph. A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. Metro Books, 1972.
foreword, 364
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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1982: The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita,...

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1982

The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita, Sue and Bob Too from Andrea Dunbar .
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.

April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...

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April 2012

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious , which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican 's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is supremeEdmonton Journal, 13 June 2012, p. A21.

1616: Helkiah Crooke in Microcosmographia: A Description...

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1616

Helkiah Crooke in Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man laid out an exhaustive account of the human body, in which he rejected the one-sex model (the original editions spell this Mikrokosmographia).
Smith, Bruce R. “Premodern Sexualities”. PMLA, Vol.
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, No. 3, May 2000, pp. 318-29.
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1882: Henry Varley began his popular Lecture to...

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1882

Henry Varley began his popular Lecture to Men Only tour, which preached chastity.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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27 June 2017: Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion...

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27 June 2017

Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion monthly users.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.

1838: John Claudius Loudon's The Suburban Gardener...

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1838

John Claudius Loudon 's The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion appeared in volume form (after being serialised over two years).
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.

May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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May 1912

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour candidates in constituencies where a Liberal anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Hannah Griffitts

HG was a remarkably forceful and plangent Philadelphia lyric poet. Her life spans the time of the American war of independence. More than two hundred of her surviving poems and a large body of letters...

March 1911: The Idler monthly (launched as a sixpenny...

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March 1911

The Idler monthly (launched as a sixpenny magazine in 1892) ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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8 July 1952: The BBC broadcast its first public transmission...

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8 July 1952

The BBC broadcast its first public transmission of television from Paris, using French equipment.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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7 October 1922: The Prince of Wales broadcast a message to...

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7 October 1922

The Prince of Wales broadcast a message to boy scouts from York House in London.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Kathleen Jamie

KJ is a contemporary poet who has also published remarkable travel writing and edited poetry anthologies. She feels that her Scots nationality has been an advantage to her, enabling her to write and develop independently...
Kathleen Jamie Colour photo of Kathleen Jamie holding a copy of her book The Overhaul at the Costa Book Awards in London, 29 January 2013. Standing and shown in profile, she wears a brown-, red-, and grey-patterned dress.

6 April 1775: Sarah Baskerville asserted in a newspaper...

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6 April 1775

Sarah Baskerville asserted in a newspaper advertisement that she was running the well-known family type foundry with the same care and accuracy that was formerly observed by Mr. Baskerville .
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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Barker, Hannah. “Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 81-100.
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7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...

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7 October 1607

The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton 's answer to Shakespeare 's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

19 July 1821: George IV's coronation was marred for many...

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19 July 1821

George IV 's coronation was marred for many by the exclusion of his estranged wife, Caroline, and her highly visible efforts to participate.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
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24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...

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24 October 1868

With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton , novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God

1856: J. A. Froude published the first volumes...

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1856

J. A. Froude published the first volumes of his influential twelve-volume History of England from the Death of Cardinal Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada; it was completed in 1870.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.