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Category Archives: Women's history

Home / Archive Category: Women's history

Women’s Tax Resistance League

Apr 3, 2023Eric CorbettWomen's history

Suffragette group active from 1909 until 1918, encouraging woman to protest against their disenfranchisement by refusing to pay taxes.

Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907

Mar 6, 2023Eric CorbettLaw & taxation, Women's history

Act of Parliament making it legal for the first time in the United Kingdom for a man to marry his dead wife’s sister.

Florence Norman

Nov 10, 2021Eric CorbettWomen's historyBetter than Wikipedia

British social campaigner and suffragist.

Meriel Talbot

Apr 17, 2021Eric CorbettWomen's history

British public servant and women’s welfare worker, (1866–1956).

Gladys Pott

Nov 11, 2020Eric CorbettWomen's history

An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers

Katherine Harley

Nov 10, 2020Eric CorbettWomen's historyFacebook post

Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women’s suffrage was held.

Great Pilgrimage

Oct 6, 2020Eric CorbettWomen's history

March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.

Adele Meyer

Jul 26, 2020Eric CorbettPhilanthropists, Women's historyBetter than Wikipedia, Facebook post

Adele Meyer, Lady Meyer, (1862/3–1930) was an English socialite, social reformer, philanthopist and suffragist.

Herring girls

Feb 26, 2020Daisy GraceOccupations, Women's historyFacebook post

Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.

Annie Kenney

Dec 9, 2019Eric CorbettWomen's history

English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.

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