Historian unveils a plaque to mark the life of pioneering Kent suffragist and women’s campaigner Amelia Scott.
Dr Anne Logan, of the University’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, unveiled the plaque on the outside of Amelia Scott’s former home in Southborough near Tunbridge Wells on 16 August.
Amelia Scott, who was born in 1860 and died in 1952, helped establish amenities for working women and girls in Tunbridge Wells, including the establishment of a social club and the provision of a women’s lodging house.
She was also vice-president of the town’s National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and one of the first two women to be elected to the? Tunbridge Wells Town Council in 1919.
Dr Logan, a senior lecturer in social history, has carried out extensive research into Amelia Scott’s life and was invited to unveil the plaque by the Southborough Society who commissioned it.
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