CL
performed this difficult task under pressure of financial need. Her husband
helped by compiling the index. When she had finished the work she appealed to Andrew Millar
for support: Alexander spent three weeks hiding...
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23 January 1720: The Lord Chancellor (the Duke of Newcastle)...
Building item
23 January 1720
The Lord Chancellor (the Duke of Newcastle
) closed Drury Lane Theatre
for several days because of a dispute with its licensee, Steele
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 547
31 December 1729: Mary Unknown, a political pamphleteer also...
Women writers item
31 December 1729
Mary Unknown
, a political pamphleteer also writing as Thom Tell Truth
, was interrogated before Walpole
and Newcastle
about her authorship of a libel entitled A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the North.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
12-13
16 March 1754: The Duke of Newcastle became Prime Minister...
National or international item
16 March 1754
The Duke of Newcastle
became Prime Minister after a long career of managing the Whig party machine.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
271
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
113
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
29 June 1754: In Cabinet the Duke of Newcastle for the...
National or international item
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
16 November 1756: Upon the resignation of the Duke of Newcastle,...
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16 November 1756
Upon the resignation of the Duke of Newcastle
, the Duke of Devonshire
, a Whig, briefly became Prime Minister. He was in turn replaced by Newcastle in July of the following year as the...
6 April 1757: William Pitt was dismissed from office as...
National or international item
6 April 1757
William Pitt
was dismissed from office as Secretary of State.
Black, Jeremy. Pitt the Elder. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
138, 141-3
Brown, Peter Douglas. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the Great Commoner. Allen and Unwin, 1978.
144
29 June 1757: The Duke of Newcastle formed his second government,...
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29 June 1757
The Duke of Newcastle
formed his second government, this time a Whig coalition with William Pitt
.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
18, 43ff
1758: The Tory writer John Shebbeare was sentenced...
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1758
The Tory writer John Shebbeare
was sentenced to stand in the pillory for writing Letters to the People of England, a scathing attack on the Newcastle
government.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
33
November 1762: At the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London,...
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November 1762
At the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, Pitt
was vociferously welcomed, while Bute
, who was thought to be too soft in the peace negotiations, was nearly mauled by the crowd.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.