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  2. 1865 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    5 July – speed limit in Britain originally introduced by the Locomotive Act 1861 is reduced by the Locomotives Act 1865 – becoming 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country. [5] 14 July – a party led by Edward Whymper makes the first ascent of the Matterhorn. [1]

  3. Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1920: The Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act 1920. 1928: Women received the vote on the same terms as men (over the age of 21), as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928. 1929: The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 was enacted; it is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created the offence of ...

  4. History of women in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The role of women in society was, for the historical era, relatively unconstrained; Spanish and Italian visitors to England commented regularly, and sometimes caustically, on the freedom that women enjoyed in England, in contrast to their home cultures. England had more well-educated upper-class women than was common anywhere in Europe. [12] [13]

  5. 1920 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    5–30 April – 1920 blind march, a protest march of 250 blind men from across Britain to London. 10 April – West Bromwich Albion win the Football League title for the first time. [4] 20 April–12 September – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and win 15 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze medals.

  6. Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review - AOL

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    3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...

  7. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    In the early Middle Ages Anglian and Saxon kingdoms were established over most of England, ('land of the Angles'). After the Norman conquest in 1066, Anglo-Saxon refers to the pre-invasion English people. Political scientist Andrew Hacker used the term WASP in 1957, with W standing for 'wealthy' rather than 'white'.

  8. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    Norway: Women are admitted at all secondary educational schools of the state. [23] United States, Utah: "The rights of citizens of the State of Utah to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this State shall enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges."

  9. Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    She was imprisoned after heckling Winston Churchill. She left England after her release, eventually emigrating to the United States and settling in New York. She worked in the trade union movement and in 1920 became a full-time official of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. In 2003, Mary's nieces donated her papers to New York University. [47]