Category: The Lives They Didn’t List
Royal Tunbridge Wells has always kept an official version of itself: elegant, respectable, and carefully curated. This series is about everyone who didn’t make that list. The hidden lives, the overlooked communities, and the histories that happened quietly — in spite of the town, and sometimes because of it.
THE TOWN THAT BANNED A PIANO
Part 1 of The Lives They Didn’t List The Chronicles This is a piece of Tunbridge Wells LGBT history that has never appeared in any official account of the town. In the summer of 1974, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality… Read More →
THE TOWN THAT DIDN’T KNOW ITSELF
An Introduction to Three Stories About Royal Tunbridge Wells and Its Queer History The Chronicles There is a version of Royal Tunbridge Wells that everyone knows. It is tweedy, it is conservative, it is faintly outraged by most things, and… Read More →