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When war broke out in 1914 women doctors offered their services to the British Army – but they were told to “Go home and sit still”. Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson refused to sit still.
Both qualified doctors and suffragettes – and also life partners – they took a team of women doctors and nurses to Paris. Their hospital was so successful that the army asked them to run a major military hospital in the heart of London.
Endell Street Military Hospital became the only hospital within the British Army to be run and staffed by women. Its doctors and nurses treated 24,000 wounded soldiers who were shipped back from the frontline throughout the First World War.
Endell Street was renowned as the ‘most popular’ hospital in the First World War – but that did nothing to help its women pioneers when peace came.
Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore, author of 'ENDELL STREET: The Women who ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital', reveals the startling story of these pioneering women.
Wendy Moore is an award-winning journalist and the best-selling author of six books on medical and social history. As a journalist she has written for numerous newspapers including The Times, Guardian and Observer and medical journals including the Lancet and BMJ. She writes book reviews for the TLS and Literary Review. She has a Diploma in the History of Medicine from the Society of Apothecaries. ENDELL STREET is her fifth book. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
Time: 1–2pm Tuesday 16 June
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