Author Janey Jones chats to Scotland's Women about her brand new book, The Edinburgh Seven. Janey tells us the amazing true story of the first women who attended Medical School in Edinburgh in the 18th centuary. For years and years were are told the same story in history over and over again. But why have we not heard of The Edinburgh Seven?
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[00:00:05] I wanted to do a kind of long form story and dig into something historical in a very meaningful way.
[00:00:13] I saw this story and bit by bit I was just sort of open-mouthed with shock at each element.
[00:00:22] It's shocking that I didn't know it already.
[00:00:26] It seems to me that what we do with history, we get preferred stories and preferred versions of stories
[00:00:32] and we just keep retelling them and eventually the other stuff gets put aside.
[00:00:41] Times now women are finding stories and characters in history that should have actually been pivotal
[00:00:49] in our learning of history and were literally ignored.
[00:00:54] We need to keep the story of the Edinburgh Seven alive so that women feel inspired.
[00:01:01] And this is my hope. I'm not inspiring. They are. I'm just the vehicle that's brought this story out
[00:01:09] and I want to keep talking about the Edinburgh Seven.
[00:01:13] And I've had people saying, oh is it the Seven Hills of Edinburgh?
[00:01:17] Is it a football team? What is the Edinburgh Seven?
[00:01:21] And the fact that we still don't know in big numbers about this really alarms and shocks me.
[00:01:28] So there's a campaign to raise awareness about the women, which I think is a shorthand for saying,
[00:01:37] this is the way women should act if they are compelled towards equality.
[00:01:45] Scotland's women, our lives, our stories.
[00:01:48] Scotland's women, our
[00:01:48] Scotland's women, our bodies!
[00:01:48] Thank you.