Glasgow Women and Yellow Formica
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Dr Yvonne McFadden and Susan’s mum Peggy Morrison on the history of the kitchen and especially the post war Glasgow kitchen - as Peggy had in the 1950s. Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator Surgeons’ Hall Museums on being a human remains conservator and the story of Charles Anderson a 19th century sailor with a badly broken leg who resisted amputation by putting a plug in it and draining it every day for years, even though the bone had ballooned. Dr Rebecca Mason - 17th century Glasgow women and their rights, legal presence and activity in the courts and why Glasgow used to regularly banish single women - kicking them out the city if they hadn't a husband or master.
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