Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. War stories usually remember men fighting battles but there are also brave women in wars like Mary Seacole.

However, Mary Seacole's recognition is especially important for lots of people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. Mary was a Jamaican-born woman who cared for British soldiers who ...

The statue paying tribute to Jamaican-born pioneering nurse Mary Seacole has been attacked in a “disgraceful act of vandalism”. The Met Police are investigating the vandalism of the monument ...

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