Having begun as a journalist, AB
remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther..
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett. Knopf, 1974.
186-7
During the first world...
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Vera Brittain
Successive Letters in the series went out to subscribers every fortnight, and they continued to appear until the end of 1946. After the first two months the minimum levelled out at about two thousand. The...
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29 June 1754: In Cabinet the Duke of Newcastle for the...
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29 June 1754
In Cabinet
the Duke of Newcastle
for the first time enunciated the imperial idea as regards North America and the French presence there.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
18
18 January 1762: Spain declared war on Britain, in advance...
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18 January 1762
Spain declared war on Britain, in advance of its secret promise in the Family Compact to do so.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
187-91
23 February 1820: In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of...
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23 February 1820
In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of revolutionaries picked this day to assassinate members of the Cabinet
at a private dinner; the plot failed.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
105
July 1962: In a surprise move later called the night...
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July 1962
In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
replaced a third of his Cabinet
.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.