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 ...

Right, an angelic Nightingale animates a stained glass ... recognize the contributions of a different woman in the Crimean War: Mary Seacole, a black Jamaican entrepreneur who ran a restaurant ...

The life of Mary Seacole is explored ... In 1854, when war broke out in the Crimea, Mary travelled to England to volunteer her services to Florence Nightingale - who was setting up a hospital ...

A piece of art featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design plans for a Crimean War pop-up ... influential women" of the time – Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Frances Duberly.

Conversely, so are hate, war and prejudice. So it can be argued that ... conflict to Turkey and Europe are the direct descendants of the Mary Seacole tradition — and also of Florence Nightingale.

A tribute to Florence Nightingale ... there's the bizarre practice of Victorian War Tourism (tea, cake and carnage), a look at some Embarrassing Victorian Bodies, and a visit to Mary Seacole's British ...