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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 |
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A card posted in London Jan 14th 1905 |
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This section is to illustrate significant historical landmarks during our grandparent's and parent's life times which infuence the way we live today. Also more recent events which will affect our children's and grandchildren's lives. Please send in text, photographs and articles which would help to illustrate this section of our Social and Political history
See the BBC Womens Time Line click to visit webpage
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Other interesting Timelines to view
The Victorian Timeline link |
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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" Virginia Woolf |
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| With the latest enthusiasm in tracing your ancesters when you are drawing out your family tree you suddenly find a gap - a branch that goes nowhere. You ask grandma or an elderly aunt who reply 'Oh we don't talk about that in the family my dear' and the matter is closed. This happens in every single family all the time - it's history. You need an archive - a social archive of your family history for future generations. Not an entire video tape but fleeting moments, flickering images from every member of your family, just the ones worth saving so that they make up the whole. Kate Adie |
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Book available on loan to family members |
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| From 11 January 1858, the new London-based Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes heard all divorce and matrimonial cases (such as restitution of conjugal rights, legitimacy, protection of earnings). In 1873 it was reformed into the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature.
In 1911 as the laws then stood a woman could not obtain a divorce in England, she could only have the marriage annulled on the grounds of non-consummation: by arguing, and demonstrating medically, that she was still a virgin after five years of marriage.
The real opening of divorce to all classes took place in the 1920s, with the extension of legal aid, and the provision of some local facilities. In 1922, ten assize towns were named as suitable for the hearing of certain kinds of divorce. From 1927, petitions could also be filed in 23 district registries instead of solely at the Principal Registry in London, while cases could be heard in 18 assize towns as well as in London. This option proved increasingly popular: within 10 years nearly a quarter of all suits were started at district registries of the Supreme Court. The county courts were finally able to hear divorce suits in the late 1960s. Most divorces now take place at county courts. Too late for our grandmother Gertrude. |
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Josephine Butler | |
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Collaged felt with machine stitch by Ann Dingsdale |
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| Josephine Butler 1828-1906 campaigned against the Contagious Diseases Acts and their humiliation of ordinary women. She spoke in public about prostitution and venereal disease. See Guardian article for more information click to read |
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| FAMILY LAW
Adoption wasn't legally recognised in England and Wales until the first Adoption Act of 1926. Before then adoption was a familiar social but informal phenomenon which involved giving a home to an orphaned or abandoned child. Until the mid- 20th century, official adoptions, often of illegitimate children, were arranged by agencies. They occurred in secrect, to protect the adopting parent and on condition that there would be no contact between mother and child. We therefore feel that the Harry/Gertrude/Dorothy triangle was the best solution to keep the children together
The 1975 Children Act - overturned the secrecy law and made birth records available to adopted people, enabling them to find out about their origins
The 1989 Children Act - stressed the importance of working in partnership with birth families.
By 1998 adoptions fell to their lowest level since 1926
The Adoption and Children Act 2002 - gave mothers limited access to the children they gave up via adoption agencies.
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A set of Royal Mail Stamps issued Nov 2008 | |
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| Dates and items of interest to our family......
1837 Mansands Coastguard Cottages were built
1941 Knowles Hill School was founded Miss Rainford - Headmistress was a translater for the League of Nations
MORE PLEASE !!
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| 1836 Marriage Act 1837 Queen Victoria came to the throne 1840 Launch of the 'Full English Breakfast' for professioanl Victorian men 1841 The first Census - life expectancy was 40.2 yrs for men 1841 15.9 million people left for America Canada & Australia around this time 1841 The Penny Red stamp introduced 1844 The Cooperative Movement . Rochdale Pioneers 1858 Divorce Act 1861 Criminal Law Consolidation Act reduced the number of capital crimes to four: Murder, High Treason, Arson in a Royal Dockyard,and Piracy 1868 Last fully public hanging in England 1880 Compulsory education introduced 1880 Girls school books of lower status intoduced for the first time 1883 Womens Cooperative Guild 1884 NSPCC founded 1884 Royal Commission on the housing of the working classes 1885 Vaccine for Rabies discovered 1888 Invention of pneumatic tyre 1888 Invention of the hand held camera 1888 Jack the Ripper terrorises east London 1889 London dockers win an extra six pence an hour - the first major strike 1890 Discovery of Diphtheria vaccine 1891 Invention of the zip fastener 1892 Keir Hardy the 1st independant socialist MP arrives in the House of Commons 1892 New Zealand gives women the vote - the first country to do so 1895 Daily Mail the 1st mass circulation newspaper is published 1895 National Trust founded 1895 Discovery of Xrays 1895 Wireless telegraphy invented 1896 Motor cars begin to appear on British roads 1896 Radioactivity discovered 1897 Tate Gallery opened 1897 Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee 1899 Education Act School leaving age set to 12 1899 Introduction of Aspirin 1899 First tape recorder invented 1900 The Labour Party is formed. 1902 Holloway prison converted to become London's first female only prison 1903 The Wright Brothers make the first powered flight 1905 -1916 The Liberal government, Lloyd George introduces the old age pension 1905 Russian Revelution 1906 Publication of first novels aimed at girls (Angela Brazil) 1906 Education (School Meals) Act. 1907 The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1908 Childrens and Young Persons Act 1908 Introduction of Old Age Pensions 1911 National Insurance Act 1912 Introduction of School Clinics 1913 A children's branch of the Home Office is established for the first time 1913 Mental Deficiency Act 1914 - 1918 The 1st world war 1915 Womens International League for Peace and Freedom founded 1916 The Easter rising in Ireland of the Sinn Fein 1917 the US enters the war 1918 Women who were over 30 and householders got the vote. 1918 Education Act School leaving age set to 14 1919 The Treaty of Versailles establishes peace and the League of Nations formed 1919 Ministry of Health set up 1919 Irish War of Independance 1920 State of Emergency Miners Strike 1922 Northern Ireland partitioned with the south gaining independance 1922 First Daily Broadcasts by the BBC 1923 Daily weather forecasts on BBC radio 1924 First Housing Act 1926 Movies ..the first talkies appear 1926 First demonstrration of Television by Baird 1926 TUC calls first General Strike 1927 Divorce and Legal Aid Act 1928 Pennicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming 1829. Last hanging for forgery 1930 Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia 1931 3 million unemployed - the Jarrow March 1932 Whipping of children under 14 banned 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes dictator of Germany as leader of the Nazi Party 1934 National Council for Civil Liberties formed 1936 Edward V111 abdicates 1938 Abortion Act 1939 - 45 The 2nd world war. 1939 Sept - First child evacuees left London 1941 Dec Japan attacks Pearl Harbour 1941 Anglo Iraq War 1942 Oxfam founded 1944 PAYE system formed for collecting taxes 1944 Education Act School leaving age set at 15 1945 USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima 1948 National Health Service instituted 1948 The Children Act new amendments 1948 Railways nationalised 1949 Clothes rationing ends 1949 NATO is formed 1950 Korean War 1953 Discovery of Measles vaccine 1953 Ascent of Everest 1954 Discovery of Polio vaccine 1954 July Rationing ends 1954 Launch of sweetened breakfast cereals 'Sugar Puffs' etc 1955 July Ruth Ellis - last woman to be hanged 1956 Suez War 1956 The end of subsidised milk and bread 1957 First motoway M1 opened in Britain 1959 Mental Health Act 1959 - 1975 Vietnam War 1963 Kennedy. US president shot 1963 The age of criminal responsibility is raised to 10 1965 North Sea Gas discovered 1967 Emergence of 'Flower Power' 1967 Six Day War 1969 Foundation of Open University 1968/9 18 year olds got the vote 1970 Equal Pay Act 1971 Decimal coinage in UK 1972 Jan - Britain enters EEC 1972 Equal Opportunity Act 1973 Three day week introduced 1975 First North Sea oil comes ashore 1975 Establishment of Equal Opportunities Commission 1976 Race Relations Act 1978 worlds first test tube baby 1979 Britain's first woman prime minister.Margaret Thatcher 1979 Winter of discontent 1980 Iran Iraq War 1981 Walk to Greenham Common 1981 Special Education Act 1981 IBM launch of desktop computer 1982 Falklands War 1983 Mental Health Act 1984 Coal strikes crushed by police 1986 Nuclear power plant explosion at Chernobyl USSR 1987 Hurricane strikes southern England 1988 Amended Housing Act 1990 National Health and Community Care Act 1994 The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1995 Carers recognition Act 1995 4th UN Womens Conference Beijing 1999 The Protection of Children Act 2000 Representation of the People Act 2001 9/11 attacks 2001 War against terrorism Afghanistan 2003 The Antisocial Behaviour Act 2003 War in Iraq 2004 The Children Act 2004, 2005 The Kyoto Protocol (1997) came into force 2007 Smoking ban in England 2009 Climate Change Conference Copenhagen - a failure 2010 First Coalition government since WW2 2012 Olympic Games London 2012 Same Sex couple allowed to marry 2014 Scotland says NO 2015 The Queen is the longest reigning monarch
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