we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Wendy Moore, author of
No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War Ia work highlighting the historic women-run Endell Street Military Hospital in London that treated both World War I casualties and victims of the Spanish flu pandemic. When Wendy Moore was searching for a story for her next book, she ventured into the History of Medicine Collection in London’s Wellcome Library. “I’ve written four previous books on medical and social history,” explained Moore, “but I was looking for a story, a really fascinating, hard-to-believe story.
Enter Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, two doctors who were suffragettes and partners. The pair raised money and recruited a medical team of doctors, nurses, and orderlies–all women–and set off for France, where, within the first six weeks of the war, they esta blished a hospital that treated the wounded in Paris. When army officials came to visit, they were so impressed that they asked Flora and Louisa to run a hospital for the army in London. The decision was not without criticism: “People didn’t think that it was possible, and that men would not allow themselves to be treated by women,” said Moore. Endell Street would prove them wrong.
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