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Suffragette surgeons of Endell Street

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Photograph of a laptop on a desk. On the laptop screen is a live event showing the speaker, Wendy Moore with a red telephone icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen. She has short light brown hair and glasses. She is wearing a red top, sitting in an office chair in her home with pictures on the wall behind her, a bookshelf and postcards stuck on the wall. The laptop is sitting on a wooden desk with houseplants around it.
Library Insights: Wendy Moore, Photo: Thomas SG Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Watch a recording of acclaimed writer Wendy Moore to learn about the story of the suffragette doctors who ran Endell Street Military Hospital in the heart of London in World War I.

Founded by Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray, Endell Street was the only hospital within the British Army to be staffed by women. All the doctors, nurses and orderlies were female, except for a handful of male helpers.

Wendy examines the legacy of the suffragette doctors and their pioneering and determined work in a hostile environment.

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About your speaker

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Wendy Moore

Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and award-winning author of five books on medical and social history. Her first book, ‘The Knife Man’, a biography of the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, was published in 2005. It won the UK Medical Journalists’ Association Consumer Book Award and was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award and the Saltire Award. Her latest book, ‘Endell Street’, tells the story of a military hospital that was run by women in London during World War I. It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week.