those promoting women's suffrage, such as the Women's Tax Resistance League. War tax resistance is the refusal to pay some or all taxes that pay for war...
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Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) was from 1909 to 1918 a direct action group associated with the Women's Freedom League that used tax resistance to...
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was a founder member of the Women's Tax Resistance League which was a group who objected particularly to women paying tax to a government over which they...
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resisting their taxes in response. The British women's suffrage movement, in particular the Women's Tax Resistance League, used tax resistance in their struggle...
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Tax resistance in the United States has been practiced at least since colonial times, and has played important parts in American history. Tax resistance...
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Sophia Duleep Singh (category English tax resisters)
women who pioneered the cause of women's rights in Britain. Although she is best remembered for her leading role in the Women's Tax Resistance League...
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Ethel Ayres Purdie (category English tax resisters)
counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. Purdie was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax. She was...
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Adele Meyer (category British women philanthropists)
of the Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL), the members of which protested against the disenfranchisement of women by refusing to pay taxes. Born in...
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Bertha Bacon (category 19th-century British women)
1866-19 April 1922) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Tax Resistance League. Bacon was born in 1866 in Ongar, Essex. She was one of eight...
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Agnes Metcalfe (category British women educators)
with the Women's Tax Resistance League, at one point acting as treasurer. The League protested against the requirement for women to pay taxes while they...
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hunger strike – was released after 91 hours of fasting 1909 The Women's Tax Resistance League founded September 1909: Force feeding introduced to hunger strikers...
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The Anti-Bin Tax Campaign opposed the introduction of bin charges (garbage-collection fees) by local authorities in Ireland. The campaign centred largely...
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formerly licensed to serve Vonore, Tennessee, United States Women's Tax Resistance League This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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land liable to payment of the land tax.” Because the Dutch still continued to rule persistently, Samin resistance near vanished and went dormant. Throughout...
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Philadelphia Tea Party (category Tax resistance in the United States)
about Great Britain's decision to tax the American colonies despite a lack of representation in Parliament. The tax on tea particularly angered the colonists...
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List of suffragists and suffragettes (redirect from Women's suffrage organizations)
supporter of women's suffrage Kate Harvey (1862–1946) – participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were...
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suffragette, involved in the Women's Tax Resistance League Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – author and campaigner for women's rights, mother of Marie...
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to become a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League. In 1911 she held a meeting for the Women's Tax Resistance League, going on to become a member...
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Kate Harvey (category English tax resisters)
operated a home for women and children, and then later for disabled children. She participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for...
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Mary Sargant Florence (category English tax resisters)
Arthurian story of Gareth. She was a suffragist, a supporter of the Women's Tax Resistance League, and a member of the committee for the Hague Peace Congress...
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Jessie Murray (category British women's rights activists)
member of the Women's Freedom League and Women's Tax Resistance League, two organisations that took direct action in their campaigns for women's suffrage....
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Federation of Women's Institutes, the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League and the Women's Tax Resistance League. The Friends of the Women's Library have...
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Clemence Housman (category English tax resisters)
exhibitions. In 1910 Houseman became a member of the committee of the Women's Tax Resistance League. She also boycotted the 1911 census, writing "No Vote No Census...
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Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy (category Tax resistance in the United Kingdom)
non‐violence throughout her life. She became vice-president of the Women's Tax Resistance League in the same year. She also gave her support to the Lancashire...
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The Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (CAHWT) was a group opposed to the introduction of property and water charges in the Republic of Ireland. It...
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Feminism in the United Kingdom (redirect from Women's rights in the United Kingdom)
1907: The Artists' Suffrage League founded. 1907: The Women's Freedom League founded. 1909: The Women's Tax Resistance League founded. September 1909: Force...
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Gertrude Eaton (category 20th-century English women singers)
secretary of the Women's Tax Resistance League, in the summer of 1911, her household silver was seized when she refused to pay taxes as a suffrage protest...
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The women's poll tax repeal movement was a movement in the United States, predominantly led by women, that attempted to secure the abolition of poll taxes...
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of the Women's Tax Resistance League; for the latter, she had goods seized in lieu of tax in 1913. Chapman believed the National Union of Women's Suffrage...
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Minnie Turner (category Women's Social and Political Union)
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Tax Resistance League(WTRL). She also...
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