On 23 September 2020, we unveiled a new artwork to commemorate the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British University. It is a re-imagining of the 1632 Rembrandt painting ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp’, a copy of which hangs in our Department of Anatomy. The original is in the Mauritshuis museum […]
The Edinburgh Seven were the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. In her essay Medicine as a Profession for Women, published in 1869, Sophia Jex-Blake argued that the only way to determine whether women had the same intellectual ability as men was through ‘a fair field and no favour’ – […]
Despite their Edinburgh experiences, all seven women left the University to make their mark on the world. Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (1840–1912) Sophia Jex-Blake was the driving force behind the campaign to secure women access to a university education. She received her MD in Bern in 1877 and become the first registered female doctor in Scotland. […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Simran Piya, Year 3. Originally Kathmandu,Nepal but has lived in Edinburgh […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Caitlyn Taylor, Year 2. Originally from Dunbeath, Caithness. What inspires […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Izzie Dighero, Year 4. Originally from London. What inspires you […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Mei Yen Liew, Year 2. Originally from Malaysia. What inspires […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Megan Cameron, Year 4. Originally from East Kilbride. What inspires […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Ella Crowther, Year 1. From St Albans. What inspires you […]
On 6 July, seven current medical students from the University of Edinburgh will be accepting a posthumous MBChB degree on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven. We spoke to each of them about the significance of the event and their ambitions for the future. Sorna Paramananthan, Year 3. Originally from Edinburgh. What inspires you […]
