Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...
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November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Baroness Williams of Crosby (Shirley Williams)”. Liberal Democrats: People.
15 January 1997: During a visit to Angola, Princess Diana...
National or international item
15 January 1997
During a visit to Angola, Princess Diana
caused a minor political scandal at home by calling for an international ban on landmines, a position seen as out of step with current British government
policy.
“1997: Princess Diana sparks landmines row”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 Jan. 1997.
“The Treaty”. International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
10 April 1998: The Good Friday Agreement, a peace agreement...
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10 April 1998
The Good Friday Agreement, a peace agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and that of Northern Ireland itself, was signed, following complex and lengthy multiparty negotiations.
Good Friday Agreement, 10 April 1998. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/docs/agreement.htm.
Langdon, Julia. “Obituary: Mo Mowlam”. Guardian Weekly, 26 Aug. 2005, p. 28.
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19 December 2001: Under a newly defined practice of internment,...
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19 December 2001
Under a newly defined practice of internment, a dozen foreign nationals, all male, were arrested and held in Britain on suspicion of links to organizations suspected of terrorist activity.
Peirce, Gareth. “Was it like this for the Irish?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 7, 10 Apr. 2008, pp. 3-8. 3, 5, 6
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network. 15 June 2011.
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