The fantastic news came a week after the first group of women to enroll at any UK university were finally awarded their degrees – 150 years after they first began their studies.

The group of women - Sophia Jex-Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Mary Anderson and Emily Bovell – enrolled as medical students at the University of Edinburgh in 1869, and in doing so became the first group of women to study at any UK university, despite the significant backlash and barriers put in place in order to limit their success.

Famously, the women were prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors because of the discrimination they faced at the hands of the university and their male peers.

Now, 150 years later, seven female students from the current graduating class of Edinburgh Medical School picked up degree certificates on behalf of the “Edinburgh Seven” on Saturday, as part of a number of events being held by the university to honour the achievements of women.

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