During her student days IM
attracted innumerable admirers, women as well as men: at times it seemed that everyone was in love with her. They included the first of two men whom she loved deeply...
Publishing
Mary Collier
She wrote in response to Duck's The Thresher's Labour, 1730, incensed to find a male poet of her own class sneering at women as inferior workers and frivolous gossips and time-wasters. Having written, she...
Timeline
17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...
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17 February 1958
CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
, was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
1963: E. P. Thompson published his influential...
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1963
E. P. Thompson
published his influential history The Making of the English Working Class.
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Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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Texts
Collier, Mary et al. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson et al., Merlin, 1989.
Thompson, Edward Palmer. Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. Allen Lane, 1975.