Medical students dressed as suffragettes chain themselves to railings of London University to protest at the anticipated closure of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School as a result of the Flowers Report. Photograph by Associated Newspapers, ca. 1980.

Date:
[1980?]
Reference:
583218i
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Description

The protesters dumped daffodils outside Senate house of London University in protest against the Flowers Report. In the end, the report did not recommend closure of the Royal Free medical school

Publication/Creation

London : Associated Newspapers, [1980?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15 x 20.6 cm

Lettering

Women medical students dressed as suffragettes and chained themselves to railings today in protest at the possible closure of their medical school ... Lettering on verso, including code 800310/01, presumably indicating date 10 March 1980

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Copyright: Associated Newspapers

Reference

Wellcome Collection 583218i

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