Medical students dressed as suffragettes and Edwardian toffs 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 Epoque, 1980.

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[1980?]
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778394i
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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

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London (Carmelite House, E.C.4) : Epoque, [1980?]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.5 x 15.1 cm

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A group of women medical students dressed as suffragettes chained themselves to railings in protest at a possible closure of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, in London's Hampstead ... Lettering on verso, including code 800310/03, presumably indicating date 10 March 1980

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Wellcome Collection 778394i

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Copyright: Epoque (a subsidiary of Associated Newspapers?)

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