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1850

The Boy's Book of Sports and Games. Containing Rules and Directions for the Practice of the Principal Recreative Amusements of Youth. By Uncle Charles (London, 1850)

1850

The Domestic Economist and Advisor in Every Branch of the Family Establishment, (London, 1850)

1850

Bowler Hat designed

1851

Women's Suffrage Petition presented to the House of Lords

1852

The Head of the Family. A Novel (London, 1852)

1853

A Schoolmaster's Difficulties Abroad and At Home (London, 1853)

Front cover of Every Family's Book of Amusements.

1853

Every Family's Book of Amusements. Comprising an Ample Collection of Games of Skill and Chance, as also of Intellectual & Athletic Amusements: Amongst others, Cards, Chess Draughts, Billiards, Legerdemain, Riddles, Cricket, Archery, &c. with all the rules & necessary Instructions for Playing each Game (London, 1853)

1853

Social and Political Morality by William Lovett (London, 1853)

1854

A Series of Calisthenic and Hygienic Exercises By R. S. Thomson (London, 1854)

1854

The Angel in the House: Book 1, The Betrothal, by Coventry Patmore (London, 1854)

1854

The Family Treasury, Volume 1 (London, 1854)

1854

Pubs in England were forced to close at midnight on Saturday

1855

A Hand Book of Domestic Medicine Popularly Arranged by an Eminent Physician (London, 1855)

1855

Advice to Young Ladies on their Duties and Conduct in Life by T. S. Arthur (London, 1855)

1855

How to Choose a Wife, by H. W. H. **** (London, 1855)

1855

Advice to Young Men on their Duties and Conduct in Life by T. S. Arthur (London, 1855)

1856

The Angel in the House: Book 2, The Espousals, by Coventry Patmore (London, 1856)

1856

The Book of Rugby School. Its History and its Daily Life (London, 1856)

1857

Prostitution, Considered in its Moral, Social and Sanitary Aspects in London and Other Large Cities. Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of its attendant Evils, by William Acton (London, 1857)

Front cover of The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs In Youth, in Adult Age and in Advanced Life.

1857

The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs In Youth, in Adult Age and in Advanced Life. Considered in their physiological, social, and psychological relations (London, 1857)

1857

Divorce & Matrimonial Causes Act

1859

The Draper and Clothier Volume 1

1859

The Family Manual and Servants' Guide Containing upwards of 1000 new and improved receipts. 9th Edition (London, 1859)

1859

Society for Promoting the Employment of Women founded

Front cover of How to Shine in Society.

1860

How to Shine in Society, The Art of Conversation (Glasgow, 1860)

1860

Our Tour of Wales by Frederica Rouse-Boughton, 1860

1860

The Mother's Thorough Resource-Book:Comprising Self-Discipline of the Experiant Mother; General Management during Infancy & Childhood (London 1860)

1861

Etiquette for All or Rules of Conduct (Glasgow, 1861)

1861

Social Science: Being Selections from John Cassell's Prize Essays by Working Men and Women. With Notes (London, 1861)

Front cover of The Complete Works of William Hogarth.

1861

The Complete Works of William Hogarth In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Superb Engravings on Steel, from the Original Pictures (London, 1861)

1861

The Lady's Guide to the Ordering of her Household, and the Economy of the Dinner Table. By a Lady (London, 1861)

1861

True Manhood: Its Nature, Foundation, and Development. A Book for Young Men, by William Landels (London, 1861)

1862

A Mother's Lessons on Kindness to Animals (London, 1862)

1862

Female Education and How it Would be Affected by University Examinations: A paper read at the Social Science Congress (London, 1862)

1862

The Laws of Football, As Played at Rugby School (Rugby, 1862)

1864

The Children's Wrong. A Book for Christian Parents (London, 1864)

Front cover of The Gentleman’s Manual of Modern Etiquette.

1864

The Gentleman’s Manual of Modern Etiquette (London, 1864)

1864

1st Contagious Diseases Act

1864

Right to vote in local elections to single women ratepayers

1864

The Subjection of Women, an essay by John Stuart Mill, is published

1864

First women's college (Girton) at Cambridge founded

1865

Penitentiaries and Reformatories (Edinburgh, 1865)

1865

Elizabeth Garrett is certified by the Society of Apothecaries as a physician

1866

Mother's Shawl. A Story for Children (London, 1866)

Front cover of Essays on a Liberal Education.

1867

Essays on a Liberal Education. Edited by Rev. F. W. Farrar (London, 1867)

1867

Queensbury Rules of Boxing published

1868

Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports and Amusements Edited by Edmund Routledge (London, 1868)

1868

Nursery Fun for Everyone; or Games for Little Children (London, 1868)

1869

Athletics', Saturday Review, pp413-414, Vol.27, 1869

1869

Girton College, Cambridge, is founded under the name of the College for Women at Benslow House. Established in Hitchin, the college was one of England's first residential colleges for women

1870

Athletic Sports and University Studies', Fraser's Magazine Vol.2, 1870, by Leslie Stephen

Front cover of Marriage and Home.

1870

Marriage and Home (London, 1870)

1870

First Married Women’s Property Act

1870

Education Act. Divided the country into 2500 school districts and allowed school boards to be elected by rate payers.

1871

The Young Man from Home, by John Angell James. A New Edition (London, 1871). First published 1838

1871

Newnham College, Cambridge founded

1872

A Father’s Advice to a Son in a Letter (London, 1872)

1872

English Midwives Their History and Prospects (London, 1872)

1872

The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society, Volume 1, No.s 1-8 and Volume 11, No. 30, 1872

1873

A Handbook for Wives and Mothers of the Working Classes (London, 1873)

1873

The Fathers' Meeting. Half-an-hour's Reading for Working Men (London, 1873)

Front cover of At Home by a Mistress and Mother.

1874

At Home by a Mistress and Mother (London, 1874)

1874

First Medical School opened for Women in London

1874

University College, London, granted women taking courses at the college the right to earn a certificate based upon examination

1874

The rules of golf and lawn tennis were regulated

1875

Health and Home by A Quiet Woman (London, 1875)

1876

Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen (London, 1876)

Front cover of The Gentleman's Art of Dressing with Economy.

1876

The Gentleman's Art of Dressing with Economy (London, 1876)

1877

Parliament removed restrictions on registration under the Medical Act due to sex, and as a result Edith Shove applied to take examinations for a medical degree at the University of London; her application was granted in 1877

1877

A Day of My Life: Everyday Experiences at Eton (London, 1877)

1877

Cookery. Containing Useful Instructions and Economical Recipes for the Practical Housekeeper (London, 1877)

1877

Courtship as it is, and as it Ought to be by a Careful Observer of the First; and a Practical Experimentalist in the latter (Otley, 1877)

1878

Domestic Economy for the use of Schools, in the Form of Question and Answer, with a few Recipes for Plain Cooking. 8th Edition (Glasgow, 1878)

1878

Manliness and Culture, by John Brookes. 3rd Edition (London, 1878)

1878

The Angel in the House: Books 3 & 4, Faithful Forever and Victories of Love, by Coventry Patmore (London, 1878).Faithful Forever was first published in 1860 and Victories of Love was first published in 1863

Front cover of How to Behave or Etiquette of Society.

1879

How to Behave or Etiquette of Society (London, 1879)

1879

Nursery Ballads (London, 1879)

1879

The Manliness of Christ, by Thomas Hughes, Q.C. (London, 1879)

1879

Working Men and Women. By a Working Man (London, 1879)

1879

Somerville College, a women's college founded as Somerville Hall, is established in Oxford. Lady Margaret's Hall founded.

1880

Athletics in Public Schools', the Nineteenth Century Vol.7, 1880, by Edward Lyttleton

1880

Elementary Education Act. Education free and compulsory from the ages of 5-10

Front cover of Girls and Their Ways.

1881

Girls and Their Ways, by one who knows them a Book for and About Girls (London, 1881)

1882

Married Women's Property Act

1883

My Grandfather's Pocket-Book by Henry John Wale (London, 1883)

1883

The Home: In its Relation to Man and to Society, by James Baldwin Brown. Second Edition (London, 1883)

1884

Facts for Men on Moral Purity and Health, Being Plain Words to Young Men Upon an Avoided Subject; Safeguards Against Immorality, & Facts that Men Ought to Know, by Alfred S. Dyer (London, 1884)

1885

A Lecture to Young Men on the Preservation of Health and the Personal Purity of Life, by a Graduate (London, 1885)

1885

Motherhood; or, Conferences for Our Lady's and St. Philip's Girls (London, 1885)

Front cover of Our Duty in the Matter of Social Purity.

1885

Our Duty in the Matter of Social Purity, An Address to Young Men, Delivered by the Rev. Richard A. Armstrong (London, 1885)

1885

Criminal Law Ammendment Act

1886

Homework and how to do it: An Easy Reading Book For Girls Classes (Dublin, 1886)

1886

How to Manage House and Servants and to Make the Most of your Means, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton (London, 1886)

1886

The Wife's Handbook How a Woman should order herself during Pregnancy, in the Lying In Room, and After Delivery. With hints on the management of the baby. By H. Arthur Allbutt. Third Edition (London, 1886)

1886

Repeal of Contagious Diseases Acts

1887

Our Morality and the Moral Question: Chiefly from the Medical Side by Lionel S. Beale (London, 1887)

1887

The Causes and Preservation of Immorality in Schools by Edward Lyttelton (London, 1887)

1887

The Lady's World. An Illustrated Magazine of Fashion and Society. The Lady's World was renamed The Woman's World in Nov 1887

Front cover of Woman's World.

1887 - 1890

Woman's World. An Illustrated Magazine of Fashion and Society. The Woman's World was published Nov 1887-Oct 1890, formerly The Lady's World

1888

A Secret Book for Men (London, 1888)

1888

The Anatomie of the Bodie of Man (London, 1888). First Published in 1548

1889

Beauty and How to Keep It, by a Professional Beauty (London, 1889)

1889

The Evolution of Sex By Professor Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson. With 104 Illustrations (London, 1889)

1890 - 1891

Beauty and Fashion: The Illustrated Journal for Women Volume 1, No.s 1-3, November and December 1890

1890

Eton and the Empire: An Address Delivered at Eton College (London, 1890)

Front cover of The Compleat English Gentleman.

1890

The Compleat English Gentleman, by Daniel Defoe. Containing Useful Observances on the General Neglect of Education of English Gentlemen with the Reasons and Remedies; The Apparent Difference Between a Well Born and a Well Bred Gentleman; Instructions how Gentlemen may Recover the Defficiency of their Latin and be Men of Learning Tho’ Without the Pedantry of the Schools. Introduction, notes and index by Karl D. Bulbring (London, 1890). The original manuscript was written by Defoe in 1728

1891

Beauty and Fashion An Illustrated Journal for Women, Volume 1, 1890-1891 (London, 1891)

1891

The Free Education Act. State payment of school fees up to ten shillings per week.

1892

Fashionable London, an Illustrated Journal for Ladies, April, 1892

1892

Mothers and Sons or Problems in the Home Training of Boys by Rev. The Hon. E. Lyttelton (London, 1892)

1893

Beauty and Hygiene for Women and Girls (London, 1893)

Front cover of Mother's Union Journal.

1893 - 1896

Mother's Union Journal, 1893-1896

1893

Rugby Rhymes, Rough and Ready, 1893

1893

The Etiquette of Good Society, edited and revised by Lady Colin Campbell (London, 1893)

1893

The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib (London, 1893)

1893

Women vote for the first time in New Zealand

1893

St Hilda's College, Oxford, founded as an all-women's college by Dorothea Beale

Front cover of Ladies in the Field.

1894

Ladies in the Field. Sketches of Sport, edited by The Lady Greville (London, 1894)

1894

The Domestic Drill, or The Maids of Mrs Platt (London, 1894)

1895

The Ladies' Physician A Guide for Women in their Treatment of their Ailments by a London Physician (London, 1895)

1896

Family Budgets: Being the Income and Expenses of Twenty-Eight British households. 1891-1894 (London, 1896)

1896

Girlhood and Wifehood Practical and Counsel and Advice (London, 1896)

1897

Every Girl's Book of Sport, Occupation and Pastime, Mrs Mary Whiteley (London, 1897)

1898

The Culture of Manhood, by Silas K. Hocking (London, 1898)

1898

The Ladies' Home (London, 1898)Volume 1, No's 1 & 2, 1898. The Ladies' Home was founded in 1883

Front cover of Boys of the Empire.

1900 - 1901

Boys of the Empire, A Magazine for British Boys All over the World 1900-1901. Boys of the Empire was published between 1888 and 1906

1900

Complete Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen. A Guide to the Rules and Observances of Good Society (London, 1900)

1900

Training of the Young in Laws of Sex, by Rev. The Hon. E. Lyttelton (London, 1900)