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7 September 1765
Lloyd's Evening Post reported that the chevalier...

Wilkes was an anti-government popular hero, d'Éon a foreign diplomat known for publicly declaring the superiority of British liberty to French absolutism. Londoners saw the pair as Champions for Liberty, rakes, and duellists. Next year d'Éon criticised in print the influence of women in politics, both as rulers and as favourites of male rulers. His masculine gender had not yet been called in question.

1532
Five years after the death of Niccolò Machiavelli,...

Five years after the death of Niccolò Machiavelli , there was published his treatise on political education (generally known in English as The Prince).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

March 1885
The first issue of the first British anarchist...

This inaugural issue announced itself as a journal of anti-political Socialism, and its mission is to advocate the abolition of state.
According to John Quail , this monthly publication was noted for the immediacy with which foreign events (in France particularly) were portrayed.
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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However, Seymour's good relations with international Anarchist circles were not mirrored in his contacts with existing groups in England. In 1886 Seymour was involved in various disputes with London-based protest organizations, including his printed attack in Anarchist on the expulsion of Theodore Reuss , a German under-cover police agent who had infiltrated the Socialist League as librarian and labour secretary in 1885.
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
This incident further isolated Seymour's publication from English circles.

1830
William Cobbett published his most famous...

This work (which had appeared in parts in 1821-6 in the Political Register) has never been out of print. Cobbett is a paradoxical figure. He had served with the British army for six years in Canada, where he met and married his wife. He had visited France in 1791 to see the revolution at first hand, and later lived for two extended periods in the United States. His History of the Protestant Revolution, which was serialised in cheap instalments, 1824-6, sold 700,000 over that time, and was credited with helping to bring about the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829.

February 1951
The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...

The Bow Group was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party , to carry out and publish research on political issues.
British Book News. British Council.
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23 May 1865
The Kensington Society, a quarterly women's...

The Kensington Society , a quarterly women's discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held its inaugural meeting in London.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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By September 1735
The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...

William Kent 's Temple of British Worthies featured sixteen national heroes, including one woman (Queen Elizabeth ). Further development of the gardens continued for another generation to celebrate British political power. In 1762 the Grecian Temple was renamed the Temple of Concord and Victory, and decorated with a series of medallions commemorating the conquest of Canada.

By 26 March 1771
All London was agog over the chevalier d'Éon's...

In April a newspaper squib pretended he had borne a child to Wilkes ; he was presented as part of the effeminacy in politics which he had earlier famously combated. Now he aggressively asserted his masculinity, while the papers presented it either as an insoluble mystery, or as a fraud comparable to that perpetrated by Mary Toft in 1726.

Early 1975
Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...

The company composed of parallel lesbian and gay-man sections closed in March 1981, following the withdrawal of its Arts Council grant, but it revived in 1983 as a single, mixed-sex group. The level of political commitment remained high. A few years later came an annual grant from the Greater London Council and the award of charitable status in recognition of the company's educational outreach work. Notable productions included Twice Over by Jackie Kay and Kitchen Matters by Bryony Lavery . In 1997 the company finally collapsed owing to its unsolved financial problems, but its archives were deposited at Royal Holloway College .

15 May 1847
The death of Daniel O'Connell (in Genoa in...

The death of Daniel O'Connell (in Genoa in the course of a pilgrimage to Rome for his failing health) left Irish politics in disarray.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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7 December 1683
Months after the execution of William, Lord...

Like Russell, Sidney became a name to conjure with, an icon for those whose political opinions led them to cast themselves as defenders of British liberties against absolutist government.

16 February 1932
The Fianna Fail party under Eamon De Valera...

The name of Fianna Fail , the Irish Republican Party, means Soldiers of Destiny. In 1933 they formed a majority government. Once in office, De Valera set about cutting remaining political ties between Ireland and Britain.

23 July 1910
A march in London was held in support of...

A march in London was held in support of the Conciliation Bill; originally proposed by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , it was eventually taken over by the Women's Social and Political Union .
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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6 February 1914
The United Suffragists was established as...

Its leading spirits were Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence after they were ejected from the Women's Social and Political Union . The announced the new organization on this day in Votes for Women.

1842
The Chartist Council of Birmingham recommended...

There was another effort to form a National Female Charter Association in 1848. Jutta Schwarzkopf remarks, The regularity with which the efforts to unite Chartist women nationally failed can be taken as an indication of the extent to which class issues predominated over those of gender in the political motivation of female Chartists.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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June 1975
Surprisingly, Britain's referendum on joining...

Britain had already been since 1 January 1973 a member of the European Economic Community . The referendum proved positive after the No camp, which united most of the traditional working-class power groups in national politics, had felt so confident that it was they who pressed for the referendum.

1 July 1890
An anonymous letter-writer told international...

Michel (1830-1905), illegitimate daughter of a maidservant and the owner of a chateau, joined the Association for Women's Rights in 1869, but gave most of her career to the dismantling of mainstream political power structures. She was a prolific writer, even during years in prison in France, and in exile in French colonies and in London.

14 August 1912
Three English suffragettes jailed for the...

Three English suffragettes jailed for the Asquith incident in Dublin started a hunger strike, demanding recognition as political prisoners; four Irish suffragettes joined the hunger strike next day.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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14 June 2017
A fire started at a little after midnight...

Many Kensington and Chelsea properties are valued in the millions, with owners commanding fortunes in old or new money. Grenfell Tower was a microcosm of multicultural London, housing many (legal) immigrants from distant and war-torn countries. Most residents loved their flats; many enjoyed living in a socio-economically mixed area. Dozens of social workers for the borough were present at the unfolding nightmare, arranging emergency accommodation, co-operating with charity organizations, and dispensing council cash and donated supplies. Kensington and Chelsea council had a better record than most in London of providing social housing and treating its tenants with humanity and competence. Yet after the fire, rumours of council heartlessness and inefficiency were soon accepted as truth. After extensive investigation, journalist Andrew O'Hagan revealed some demonstrable facts: naked, unprincipled greed in the industrial complex, inadequacy in cash-starved systems for regulation and rescue, indifference of central government to anything without political consequence, and a public quick to scapegoat and demonize actual front-line community workers on flimsy grounds of alleged class bias. The personal and national trauma of the fire was immeasurable, lasting, and also complicated; ground contamination is proving as damaging in the long run as air pollution.

7 December 1891
The Women's Gazette and Weekly News: A Journal...

The Women's Gazette and Weekly News: A Journal Devoted to the Social and Political Position of Women, and the Official Organ of the Women's Liberal Federation, ceased publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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14 July 1833
John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...

Proponents minimized the secular and political aspects of the Church of England, and traced it back through the succession (not significantly broken by the Reformation) linking today's clergy directly to the apostles chosen by Christ, that is by God. In practical terms, Anglo-Catholic clergy influenced by the movement strongly emphasized ritual, church building, and decoration. This new religious aestheticism, in addition to the appreciation it offered women's accomplishments such as embroidery, was attractive to many women for its interest in founding religious communities, including sisterhoods.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.

1 April 1941
With the Second World War more than eighteen...

She titled her play from a German patriotic song which, since it celebrates the Rhine as a German river, was also a war-song. Her protagonist, Kurt Muller, is a German resistant to the Nazi regime, who faces almost certain death in his own country and has settled in the USA with his American wife and children. After the past catches up with him, Kurt chooses to return and continue the fight against fascism, leaving his family, including his mother-in-law, facing unfamiliar issues of political responsibility. Hellman also worked on the script for the film of her play, released in 1943.

9 May 1945
The island of Jersey was liberated from Nazi...

The last Resistance members to be liberated from imprisonment as political detainees (on 8 May) were the lesbian couple and stepsisters Claude Cahun (Jewish photographer, cross-dresser and performer, born Lucy Schwob) and her partner and collaborator Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe). The pair had lived since 1937 on Jersey, where they were viewed as harmless eccentrics, and where from late 1940 they had conducted a subversion campaign of quite startling temerity and panache.
Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, 13 Dec. 2007, pp. 10-16.
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They distributed faked broadsheets signed Der Soldat Ohne Namen or the unnamed soldier (purportedly a disaffected Nazi officer) and forged coins inscribed Nieder Mit Krieg (down with war).
Gammel, Irene. “You Are a God”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2018, pp. 18-19.
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Arrested in July 1944, tried on 16 November, they made two failed attempts at joint suicide, took a defiant attitude at their trial, and even managed to continue their resistance work from prison.

By July 1794
William Godwin published his best-known novel,...

This novel is generally known by its subtitle. The title had been used in 1758 for an analysis of international politics, published anonymously by Lord Egmont .

June 1967
Woman's Outlook, which combined general interest,...

Woman's Outlook, which combined general interest, home hints, and socialist-feminist political articles, ceased publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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