Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian, 23 Feb. 1999.
British Army
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Kathleen Nott | |
| Employer | Rosita Forbes | Early in the second world war RFapplied for every kind of job Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell, 1946. 135 |
| Employer | Ford Madox Ford | In 1915 Ford Madox Hueffer joined the British Army
to fight against his father's country. He seems to have been careless whether he lived or died, and he had a narrow escape on the Somme... |
| Employer | Edith Templeton | From 1942 to 1945, ET
worked as a medical coder for the US War Office
in Cheltenham and London. She was attached to the Office of the Surgeon General. She says she adored army life... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Somerville | After nearly five years as a widow, Mary Greig
married her first cousin Dr William Somerville
, a medical doctor in the service of the British Army
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
had two stepsisters and a stepbrother from her father's previous marriage. Her stepbrother died young as a captain in the British Army
before she was born. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 24 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Phyllis Bottome | After her father died in 1913, PB
's estranged fiancé, Ernan Forbes Dennis
, contacted her through her publishers and suggested in a letter of condolence that they should become reacquainted as friends. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 377-8 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer
, Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth. Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 24 |
| politics | Elaine Feinstein | EF
began to learn about politics after the end of the second world war, with the struggles of Jewish displaced persons to get to Palestine, the conflict between the Jewish nationalist |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Phyllis Bottome | The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army
, Navy
, and Air Force
, the Women's Auxiliary Services
, and the lives of ordinary... |
| Travel | Richard Francis Burton | |
Timeline
30 March 1790: An advertisement appeared in The World inviting...
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30 March 1790
An advertisement appeared in The World inviting benevolent persons to subscribe for the benefit of a recent widow of a major in the British Army
, left with Seven Children without any means of support.
Behrendt, Stephen C. “Women without Men: Barbara Hofland and the Economics of Widowhood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 3, Apr. 2005, pp. 481-08. 481
1795: The (male) offspring of racially mixed marriages...
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1795
The (male) offspring of racially mixed marriages were disqualified from all military service in the British Army
except in non-combatant positions.
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08. 389
1857: The Army Sanitary Commission reported the...
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1857
The British ArmyArmy Sanitary Commission
reported the mortality rate among enlisted men to be twice the rate among civilians.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
109
July 1860: The Indian Army was amalgamated with the...
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July 1860
The Indian Army
was amalgamated with the British Army
.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 823
November 1914: The Women's Police Volunteers, formed by...
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November 1914
The Women's Police Volunteers
, formed by Margaret Damer Dawson
, received their first assignment, for the British Army
, a few months after forming.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
28 March 1915: Scotswoman Georgiana Fyfe wrote that she...
National or international item
28 March 1915
Scotswoman Georgiana Fyfe
wrote that she and her group of volunteers had evacuated 1000 from Ypres which is now finally absolutely in ruins.
Storr, Katherine. “Women’s History Month: Miss Georgiana Fyfe”. Women’s History Network Blog, 1 Mar. 2010.
24-29 April 1916: In what became known as the Easter Rising,...
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24-29 April 1916
In what became known as the Easter Rising, the Irish Volunteers
and the Irish Citizen Army
took control of Dublin.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
303
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
613
2 September 1939: The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera,...
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2 September 1939
The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera
, declared that the country would remain neutral in the coming international conflict.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
385
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
40, 65-6
Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
31-2
4-5 July 1967: The Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed its...
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4-5 July 1967
The Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed its third and final reading in the House of Commons
: scheduled for the late-night slot on 4 July, it passed when 101 supporters remained for the final vote...
31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...
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31 July 2007
The British Army
's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.
“Army ending its operation in N[orthern] I[reland]”. BBC News, 31 July 2007.
Mid-March 2009: The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a home for British...
National or international item
Mid-March 2009
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
, a home for British Army
veterans founded by Charles II
in 1682, admitted its two first female pensioners, Dorothy Hughes
and Winifred Phillips
, both in their eighties.
Bates, Stephen. “Changing Chelsea. It only took 300 years”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2009, p. 16.
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