Mary Seacole (1805 - 1881) was born in the Caribbean to a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother. At the outbreak of The Crimean War she travelled to England hoping to join Florence Nightingale's ...

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 ...

Crimean nurse Mary Seacole, sculpted in bronze ... In 1854, Seacole travelled to England again to ask the War Office to send her as an army nurse to the Crimea where cholera had broken out among the ...

Mary (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) and her adventures across the globe and across time—from the Crimean War zone to a modern-day nursing home.

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 health conditions for our troops suffering in ...

A piece of art featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design plans for a Crimean War pop-up hospital ... of the time – Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Frances Duberly.

She has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-three years, and in 2003 discovered and purchased an 1869 portrait of Mary ... into Seacole's life and career. During the Crimean War, the ...