An intricate and innovative tapestry honouring the first women allowed to matriculate at a university in Britain has been unveiled at its long-term home in the city. Inspired by the past, looking to the future The colourful three-part artwork by Dovecot Studios is on public display at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute – once the site of the city’s surgical hospital – in tribute to the women who enrolled to study medicine in 1869. Dovecot Studios commissioned celebrated Scottish artist Christine Borland to design the tapestry, which took seven…
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