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EDINBURGH, UK - July 2018: Seven students who blazed a trail for womens access to higher education are to be awarded posthumous honorary degrees on Saturday 6th July, 150 years after beginning their studies. The group known as the Edinburgh Seven were among the first women admitted to a UK university when they enrolled to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. The women faced substantial resistance from their male peers and were ultimately prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors. Pictured at McEwan Hall, seven current students at Edinburgh Medical School will collect the degrees on behalf of the women. Left to right, Izzie Dighero, Mei Yen Liew, Hikari Sakurai, Caitlin Taylor, Violet Borkowska, Megan Cameron and Simran Piya.(Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY)

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Issued: 05 July 2019
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UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL: 00.01 BST SATURDAY 06 JULY

UKs first female students finally awarded degrees in medicine

Seven students who blazed a trail for womens access to higher education will today (Saturday 6 July) be awarded posthumous honorary degrees, 150 years after beginning their studies.

The group known as the Edinburgh Seven were among the first women admitted to a UK university when they enrolled to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.

The women faced substantial resistance from their male peers and were ultimately prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors.

Their campaign against such treatment gained national attention and many supporters, including Charles Darwin. It resulted in legislation in 1877 to ensure women could study at university.

Mary Anderson, Emily Bovell, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey and Isabel Thorne will be awarded the posthumous honorary MBChB at the U

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