On a cold November night in 1809 a woman arrived in Edinburgh huddling to her mother for warmth. Margaret Ann Bulkley was taking her first steps towards a life that would revolutionise the world as we knew it. Over the next three years, Margaret would change her identity, rewrite her life story, and spearhead her way through a career, becoming Dr James Barry. As war raged across Europe, and the British Empire expanded across the seas, Dr Barry fought through some of the most horrifying adversities to make the world a better place for all of us.

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