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- Catherine Eileen James (en)
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- معلمة مدرسية من المملكة المتحدة (ar)
- Brits schoollerares (1921-2012) (nl)
- activista británica por los derechos lingüísticos galeses (es)
- Welsh-language activist (1921–2012) (en)
- athro ysgol, ymgyrchydd iaith (1921-2012) (cy)
- velšská učitelka a aktivistka (1921–2012) (cs)
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- Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, Wales (en)
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- Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, Wales (en)
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- May I call your attention to the story of Mr. and Mrs. Trefor Beasley? Mr. Beasley is a coal-miner. In April 1952 he and his wife bought a cottage in Llangennech near Llanelli, a district where nine out of every ten of the population are Welsh-speaking. All the councillors on the rural council which controls Llangennech are Welsh-speaking: so too are the council officials. Therefore when a note demanding the local rates arrived from ‘The Rural District Council of Llanelly' Mrs. Beasley wrote to ask for it in Welsh. It was refused. She refused to pay the rates until she got it. She and Mr. Beasley were summoned more than a dozen times to appear before the magistrates' court. Mr. and Mrs. Beasley insisted that the court proceedings should be in Welsh. Three times did the bailiffs carry off furniture from their home, the furniture being worth much more than the rates which were demanded. This went on for eight years. In 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Beasley received a bilingual note demanding the local rates from (en)
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- Trefor Beasley (en)
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- Eileen Beasley (en)
- Eileen Beasley (cs)
- ايلين بيسلي (ar)
- Eileen Beasley (es)
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