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...Law hospitals (regarded by most practitioners as a low-status post) despite a clear aptitude for research. Her doctoral thesis won the Edinburgh Gold Medal in 1937, but she did not take up the offered post at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital to pursue research in neurology. Whether this was a consequence of male opposition, lack of desire or the impact of marriage...

...law defined white as anyone ‘who has no trace whatsoever [not one drop] of any blood other than Caucasian’. This racist view was controversial at the time; it indicated an official position that race could not be determined by physical skin colour, but would be defined by state officials intent on preserving established systems of power based on white