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.
QUIETLY, ON OUR TERMS
Part 3 of The Lives They Didn’t List The Chronicles. This series explores the experiences of LGBT people in Tunbridge Wells, highlighting local stories and perspectives. One Man, One Facebook Group The story begins three years earlier and considerably more… Read More →
THE WATERS WERE ALWAYS QUEER
Part 2 of The Lives They Didn’t List The Chronicles This series: The Lives They Didn’t List The word “queer” is older than its current meaning. Before it became a term of identity — reclaimed, debated, eventually claimed — it… Read More →
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 →