The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads: A Woman Doctor in WW1
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It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: ‘Isabella Stenhouse’. A woman doctor? A woman doctor who was rumoured to have served in the First World War? Could Isabella have treated wounded men with these very implements? And had a grateful German prisoner of war really given her the strange string o
Kirkwood Katrina
Katrina Kirkwood, a former medical research scientist with a passion for stories, is Doctor Isabella Stenhouse's granddaughter. Equipped with two science degrees and an art degree, she spent many years helping people in the South Wales valleys turn their stories into mini-films before embarking on her quest to solve the mystery of Isabella and her beads. Following features about Isabella on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, in national newspapers, and on local radio and television, Katrina has been invited to write about Isabella for the magazine of the Medical Women's Federation and for Beyond the Trenches, the blog of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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