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Digitising 'The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Petition' | Royal College of Surgeons of England

Thanks to a TownsWeb Archiving grant awarded in 2024, RCS has been able to digitise three significant historical documents—now freely accessible to a global audience for the very first time. To discuss this digitisation project in more detail, we sat down with Sara Pink (Director of Library and Archives), Corinne Hogan (Library and Archives Engagement Manager), and Georgina Thompson (Assistant Archivist), who shared their insights on the documents and the significance of making them digitally accessible. In part 1 of our three-part series, Sara Pink, Director of Library and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, discussed a petition to RCS, submitted by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. Elizabeth had petitioned the college three times to allow her to take the exams but was refused each time. The reasons for the rejection included societal views that women were unsuited for medicine, concerns about their emotional and physical ability to handle medical situations, and possible jealousy from men who feared competition.