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Lunch Time Talk: Elsie Inglis

Date(s): 30 April 2025

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elsie-inglis-tickets-1268795213639?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=8191b4f3bd&mc_eid=ee66245525

8. Elsie


Join us for this bite sized lunch time talk exploring the history of medicine.

In this talk retired Surgeon and former Vice Presedent of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Iain MacIntyre will discuss pioneering Surgeon and womens rights activist Elsie Inglis. Here how Inglis opened a hospital for women and children in Edinburgh, was active in the suffrage movement and went on to found the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service in the First World War.
Talks will last approximately 30 mins and there will be tea and coffee available for ticket holders.
 
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