Mary Seacole was initially turned down as a volunteer to help injured and wounded soldiers in the Crimean War A terracotta sculpture of Mary Seacole, who nursed dying and wounded soldiers during ...

Themes: Mary Seacole; Black History; prejudice; determination; caring for others. Summary: Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805. She travelled to the Crimea during the Crimean War and set up ...

1856 The Crimean War ends - sometime after this Mary returns to London. 1857 Her autobiography The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is published. 1881 Mary dies in London.

Crimean nurse Mary Seacole, sculpted in bronze, now stands in the grounds of St Thomas’s hospital ... In 1854, Seacole travelled to England again to ask the War Office to send her as an army nurse to ...

Conversely, so are hate, war and prejudice. So it can be argued that Mary Seacole (1805-81) is still relevant for young women in 2016 as we celebrate International Women’s Day. She fought for better ...

Jacqueline Braithwaite's history-focused print is on display at the SS Great Britain's Dockyard Museum in Bristol.

The collaboration between Snap and the Black Cultural Archives is providing a well-needed Black British history lesson. Mary Seacole may have treated soldiers during the Crimean War and Tom ...

Jacqueline Braithwaite's history-focused work is on display in Bristol A piece of art featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design plans for a Crimean ... Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Frances ...