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.

However, two decades of painstaking research has revealed we knew far less about rebel nurse and holistic pioneer Mary Seacole than we thought. The Scottish-Jamaican nurse, who was voted the ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

Caring for the nation: the contribution of ethnic minority nurses and midwives The Mary Seacole Trust (MST) exists to educate and inform the public about the life, work and achievements of Mary ...

A documentary looking back over the life and work of Jamaican nurse and unsung heroine of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole. The programme is based almost entirely on her autobiography, sequences of which ...

Being of mixed-race, Mary was technically born 'free', however, her family enjoyed few civil rights. From an early age, she showed a great interet in medicine, learning her skills from her mother who ...

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 ...