Bessie Watson: Child Suffragette and Piping Pioneer

This week, I wanted to take a look at one of Edinburgh’s amazing women: Elizabeth “Bessie” Watson. She was a women’s suffrage activist from the age of just nine, and a pioneering bagpiper at a time when very few women played the pipes. Her legacy can still be felt today, so how did a wee girl from Edinburgh go on to make such an impact?