Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday ... of a different woman in the Crimean War: Mary Seacole, a black Jamaican entrepreneur who ran a restaurant for ...

The life of Mary Seacole is explored in three video episodes ... Mary travelled to England to volunteer her services to Florence Nightingale - who was setting up a hospital - and encountered ...

Krish and Sammy find out about the history of nursing, including Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Edith Cavell and Koforowola Abeni Pratt - the first black nurse to work for the NHS.

other health staff and charity workers bringing aid and succour to the waves of refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict to Turkey and Europe are the direct descendants of the Mary Seacole tradition — and ...