Isabel Emslie Hutton Part IV Introduction In the final part of the blog on this remarkable woman who seems to have packed more into one lifetime than is humanly possible, I want to address some of her activities during World War II and immediately afterwards. In 1938, Tom Hutton was promoted to Major […]
Category: ‘Bonnie Fechters’, – Women’s Suffrage and Medicine
Posts in this category relate to the history of women in healthcare in Scotland and their links to the suffrage movement.
This first post is an introduction rather than the in-depth story of any one individual, but I hope that these cameos will inspire you to read about the lives of some of these women and many others in the coming months. Those of whom I write were nurses, doctors, scientists, and women without medical training […]