As Fiona mentioned in her first post, in the Winter of 2023 we began our research into early women doctors in Orkney. [Read her post here] This project followed on from Fiona’s Beatrice Garvie research. We began our searches in 1894, when the first women doctors were allowed to graduate in Scotland. Our end date was 1948, when the NHS came into being and many things in healthcare changed. We had no expectation of what we might find. To date we have discovered fifty-one women who were born or worked in Orkney between 1894 and 1948. Yes FIFTY-ONE! As you can imagine we are astonished, thrilled, and feeling a little overwhelmed. Here is one of the earlier Orkney women doctors, Mary Baird Hannay who was a Doctor on the island of Flotta from 1897 to 1901. This is a photo of Mary Hannay taken in 1897, before she arrived on the island. She is the only woman taking part in a Post Graduate Class at the new Pathology Institute at the University of Glasgow. Photo ...