Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead ...

MARY Seacole appears in the 13th series of Doctor Who as it features the Crimean War. The Jamaican-born nurse was renowned for treating the sick and wounded on the battlefield at her own expense after ...

When the Crimean War began, Mary Seacole volunteered to serve as a nurse and was rejected. Undeterred, she funded her own journey to the front and built the “British Hotel” near the battlefield. Her ...

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The nurse was hailed as the greatest black Briton, yet plans for a statue have met with opposition. This conflict is part of a wider tradition by an elite In February 2004 Mary Seacole was voted by ...

LONDON — Google today honoured Mary Seacole, a Jamaican/Scottish nurse who nursed wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the Crimean War in the 1850s. SEE ALSO: 5 black artists using their work to ...

Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...

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Slavery in the US has inspired several writers in this series (Du Bois, Wright, Baldwin, Obama), and there will be more. Here in Britain, however, mainly for historical reasons, there is distressingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kayla Meikle in Marys Seacole (Marc Brenner) (evening_standard_239) Mary Seacole was a courageous Jamaican nurse who not enough ...

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