Mary Seacole helped look after lots of Jamaican people affected by the cholera ... Mary wanted to join the team of nurses who went to support British soldiers, headed up by Florence Nightingale.

IF black pioneering nurse Mary Seacole was alive today she would probably be in action ... Many may still not know Seacole’s story but this half-Scottish and half-Jamaican woman started life learning ...

Mary Seacole, a self-taught nurse of Jamaican-Scottish heritage, died on 14 May 1881 When a new community hospital named after pioneering nurse Mary Seacole opened in Surrey this month ...

Mary: I am a Creole, Ma’am. From Jamaica. Mrs Hamilton: And you wish to go to war in the Crimea as a nurse, Mrs Seacole? Mary: Yes Ma’am. It is my greatest wish. Mrs Hamilton: And what made ...

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 ...