Study to dive into stories of nurses and midwives accused of witchcraft
Edinburgh Napier University s Sighthill Campus
Researchers are to investigate the folk-healer nurses and midwives in early modern Scotland who were accused of – and often executed for – the crime of witchcraft.
The team of researchers at Edinburgh Napier University has won funding from the RCN Foundation to investigate more than 100 folk healers and midwives who are listed on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft online database. I am delighted we have been awarded funding from the RCN Foundation to investigate this over-looked part of nursing history
Nicola Ring
The foundation, which is an independent charity, awarded a Monica Baly Education Grant to the researchers as part of its programme to mark the extended International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
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She has told the told the parliament how Scotland had five times as many cases than anywhere else in Europe.
Mitchell, who revealed news of the petition on the Witches of Scotland podcast she co-hosts with author Zoe Venditozzi, said “a pardon, apology and memorial are necessary as a reckoning for all those who suffered this terrible miscarriage of justice.”
Mitchell said: “Not only is history not properly recording what positive things women do, but their history is also erased by not properly recording their story. I have a particular interest in Scottish legal history and the people who were caught up in accusations of witchcraft so I decided to start a campaign to restore these people, mostly women, to their correct place in history as women and men, not witches.
Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi s posthumous appeal rejected by Scottish judges
Five Scottish judges have upheld the 2001 verdict against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
Last week s decision is the second time an appeal on Megrahi s behalf has been rejected by the courts amid the continued suppression of contradictory evidence.
In 2002, an initial appeal was thrown out. In 2009, Megrahi, already terminally ill, was tacitly offered release from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds if a contemporary appeal was dropped as part of rapprochement between the Libyan and British governments. The most recent appeal was launched by Megrahi s son, Ali Al-Megrahi, to clear his father s name posthumously.
The son of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has lost an appeal against his late father s conviction.
The bombing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21 1988, killed 270 people in Britain s largest terrorist atrocity.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years - the only person convicted of the attack.
A third appeal against his conviction was heard in November at the High Court in Edinburgh, before a panel of five judges sitting as the Court of Appeal.
Judges have now rejected both grounds of appeal, meaning his conviction stands.
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