{"id":20,"date":"2013-06-24T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2013\/06\/24\/edinburghs-first-women-graduates-honoured-50-year-later\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:55:23","slug":"edinburghs-first-women-graduates-honoured-50-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2013\/06\/24\/edinburghs-first-women-graduates-honoured-50-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh\u2019s first women graduates honoured 50 year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 13 April 1893, eight women graduated MA, the first women students having been admitted the previous year following a lengthy battle to allow women admittance to the University.\u00a0 The eight women had already completed most of their exams externally and were awarded their degree within a year of admittance.\u00a0 The same year they graduated, a further 72 matriculated to study, with an additional 78 attending as non-matriculated students.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In July 1943, three of the eight joined Principal Sir Thomas Holland on the platform for the graduation ceremony in the McEwan Hall: Flora Stewart, nee Philip, Maude Elizabeth Newbigin and Amelia Hutchison Stirling. We blog this to mark 120 years since their graduation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 April 1893, eight women graduated MA, the first women students having been admitted the previous year following a lengthy battle to allow women admittance to the University.\u00a0 The eight women had already completed most of their exams externally and were awarded their degree within a year of admittance.\u00a0 The same year they graduated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[92,93],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/files\/2013\/06\/womengrads.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}