In 2021 we celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Dr Elizabeth Blackwell. Our namesake was born in Bristol and went on to be the first ever woman on the British medical register. Find out how we ...

She and her family returned to the United States in 1848 and she grew up in New York. She studied under Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree (from Geneva Medical ...

Later, Dr. Blackwell moved to England, where she became the first woman to be licensed to practice medicine in London. The most famous hazing incident in women’s medical education was perpetrated ...

Two women who became pioneering Wyoming physicians both graduated in the 1890s from the same medical school in Keokuk, Iowa.

Elizabeth Blackwell is one of Bristol's most influential women ... Her sister Emily, who had also qualified as a doctor, joined her and together with Dr Marie Zakrzewska, they opened the New York ...

Bristol-born Dr Elizabeth Blackwell holidayed in Argyll and is buried at Kilmun A charity has taken over a historic Argyll church and its mausoleum, where the first female doctor in the United ...

While there, she interned at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and studied under Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female to attend medical school in the United States. After her studies, ...