When Elsie Inglis asked the War Office if female doctors and surgeons could serve in front-line hospitals in World War One she was told 'my good lady, go home and sit still'. Elsie, a pioneering ...

Her name is on street signs, stamps and museums across Serbia and today in the country’s churches and hospitals, prayers will be said for the life of Dr Elsie Inglis. Almost two thousand miles ...

Commemoration events will take place to celebrate the life and achievements of Dr Inglis Dr Elsie Inglis is to be honoured for her achievements during World War One at events planned by the ...

ELSIE Inglis was the first woman to be awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. The tale of how that country’s highest award came to be presented to a Scotswoman is an inspiring one.

Now Dr Elsie Inglis will be fully recognosed in her hometown of Edinburgh when a long-awaited statue is erected on the historic Royal Mile. It comes after a huge effort by ‘Team Elsie’ to ...

One of the councillors who represents the High Street, Labour’s Margaret Graham, told a newspaper that the design was “dowdy and not representative of the character of Elsie Inglis” and she ...

Hundreds have signed an open letter which criticises plans for a memorial statue to Elsie Inglis on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. ‘Statue for Elsie Inglis SCIO’ applied for planning permission on ...

The charity planning an Edinburgh statue in honour of the feminist Dr Elsie Inglis has apologised for the way it handled the scrapping of a competition to find an artist. Statue for Dr Elsie ...

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Doctor Elsie Inglis was a well-known doctor and active suffragette in Edinburgh, founding several hospitals and at the outbreak of war in 1914, she wrote to the War Office offering her services as ...

‘Statue for Elsie Inglis SCIO’ applied for planning permission on February 28 to place the statue of the renowned Edinburgh doctor and suffragist on the southern pavement of the Royal Mil ...