Chronology

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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)

1901

An Eton Boys Letters (London, 1901)

1902

The Etiquette of Marriage (London, 1902)

Front cover of The Mother's Book of Song.

1902

The Mother's Book of Song with illustrations by Charles Robinson (London, 1902)

1902

Woman's Beauty and Health, Volume 1, No.1, edited by Macfadden, 1902

1902

The 'Balfour' Education Act. Created local education authorities (LEAs), who took over responsibility for board schools from the school boards.

1903

Every Woman Her Own Doctor A Complete Book in Plain English Concerning the Ailments and Accidents to which Women and Children are Liable and their Cure (London, 1903)

1903

The Women's Library Vol. I (London, 1903)

1903

Emmeline Pankhurst establishes the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Front cover of Boxing, or the Art of Self-Defence.

1905

Boxing, or the Art of Self-Defence, by Tom Sayers, 1905

1906

Black's Medical Dictionary (London, 1906)

1906

The word "suffragette" was first used to describe women campaigning for the right to vote in an article in a British newspaper

1907

B-P. The Hero of Mafeking (London, 1907)

1907

The Sportsman, the Fortnightly Reviews, pp155-167, Vol.81, 1907 by F. G. Aflalo

1908

A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an Enquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. By John Addington Symonds (London, 1908)

1908

Rugby School: Principle Rules Respecting Discipline, Games, Locking up etc. (1908)

1908

The Sportswoman, Volume 1, No. 1, 1908

Front cover of Empire Annual for Boys.

1909

Empire Annual for Boys, Edited by A. R. Buckland (London, 1909)

1909

Selfridges, also known as Selfridge & Co., opens on Oxford Street

1910

Empire Annual for Boys, Edited by A. R. Buckland (London, 1910)

1910

Essays on Duty and Discipline Papers on the training of children in relation to social and national welfare; essays 1-30 (London, 1910)

1910

Mother's Darling (London, 1910)

Front cover of Matrimony Made Easy.

1913

Matrimony Made Easy, by G. B. S. (London, 1913)

1913

The Public Schools and the Empire, by Herbert Branston Gray (London, 1913)

1913

The Rules of Golf (Edinburgh, 1913)

1917

Prostitution the moral bearings of the problem by M. F. With a Chapter on Venereal Diseases by J. F. (London, 1917)