Celebrating International Women's Day
Historically, there were many women in Tunbridge Wells who actively campaigned for women’s rights in the early 1900s. Both Suffragettes and Suffragists worked tirelessly to ensure that women had an equal say in the running of our county and in 1918, one hundred years ago, women were given the right to vote – there were all sorts of caveats applied to law, but it was a monumental step forward for the cause in which many were physically abused and even lost their lives in order to make their
