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The Scottish Banner matriculated undergraduate female from Scotland after the defeat of the Editor PO Box 6202 students at any British university. Jacobite’s in the Battle of Culloden Sean Cairney Marrickville South, NSW, 2204 The women began studying medicine in 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie EDITORIAL STAFF Tel:(02) 9559-6348 at the University of Edinburgh in 1869 (Prince Charles Edward Stuart) led Jim Stoddart [email protected] and although they were ultimately the second Jacobite Uprising of 1745 The National Piping Centre prevented from graduating with a to overthrow King George II. David McVey medical degree, they campaigned to Flora was visiting her brother in Lady Fiona MacGregor Eric Bryan ensure that women and men were South Uist when she met Bonnie David C. Weinczok taught the same, tested the same and if Prince Charlie, then fleeing from the Judy Vickers successful, awarded the same degrees. 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In this issue course have left their mark and became The University of Edinburgh allowed Speaking of Outlander, this month Distributed monthly in Australia, Canada, notable in Scottish history, and we of women to graduate in 1894 and the we celebrate the launch of the new New Zealand and the USA. ISSN 2209-8364 course hear of William Wallace, Robert first doctors graduated in 1896. TV show Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip Australia Post Print Approved PP:100004806 the Bruce and Robert Burns, to name with Sam and Graham. At a Published monthly by Scottish Banner Publications a few but what about the incredible Madge Easton Anderson time when people cannot travel PO Box 6220, Marrickville South, NSW, 2204, Australia contribution of women? 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