The life of Mary Seacole is explored in three video episodes - beginning with Mary's arduous journey to the Crimea, her actions during the Crimean War and what happened to her after the war had ended.

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 ...