A nurse who set up a project to create awareness of hepatitis C in Grantham is among the recipients of this year’s Mary Seacole awards. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles ...

A cash shortfall is threatening to delay the planned unveiling of a statue to commemorate nursing pioneer Mary Seacole this autumn. Subscribe today to access over 6,000 peer-reviewed clinical articles ...

For more than a century, Florence Nightingale has been known around the world as a nursing pioneer and the founder of modern nursing. Now she has a rival. Jamaican-born Mary Seacole has emerged to ...

A cross-party group of MPs have backed a campaign for Mary Seacole to become the first black person featured on the new £50 note. The Bank of England recently announced that the “more secure” polymer ...

Over 160 years after she first gained fame tending to wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, the name Florence Nightingale is still recognized as a symbol of selfless caregiving and she is ...

Statue in honour of late Jamaican-born nurse stokes controversy in England THE row in London over the planned unveiling of a statue of Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole in the gardens of St Thomas’s ...

In 1854, Jamaican-Scottish nurse Mary Seacole travelled to England and approached the War Office, asking to be sent as a British army nurse to the Crimea. When refused, Seacole funded her own trip, ...

Born in Jamaica in 1805 to a Scottish soldier father and a mixed-race mother, Mary Seacole travelled to Crimea in the 1850s to set up a treatment centre for soldiers. Known as "Mother Seacole", she ...

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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 ...

Mary Seacole was hailed as a heroine – albeit an unlikely one – in her own lifetime, and the journey she made from obscurity to icon was typical of her age. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in about ...