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 ...

A statue honouring Jamaican-born Black nurse, Mary Seacole, outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in south London, was vandalised on ...

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 ...