Her second husband, Leonard Tebbs, a former soldier and university lecturer who died in 1979, aged 61, had encouraged her in campaigning for peace and also to further her education at college when in her 50s.
[4] Tebbs became involved in activism around the age of 14 when she realised that a boy with whom she worked at the East Lancashire Paper Mill (ELPM) was earning two shillings per week more than she was for doing the same job.
She became chair of the National Assembly of Women in 1978, having joined it in 1952,[2] and met with world leaders in her attempts to bring about nuclear disarmament.
[1][a] Tebbs was banned from entering the United States due to her activism, and her protests against the Trident nuclear programme at Faslane led to her arrest at the age of 89.
[3][9] Tebbs also continued working for women's rights as a member of trade unions,[8] and led a successful strike for equal pay at ELPM in the early 1950s.
[8] She also worked on campaigns for equality at numerous other industrial sites[2] and established a refuge at Warrington for women who had suffered from domestic violence.