LONDON — Google today honoured Mary Seacole, a Jamaican/Scottish nurse who nursed wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the Crimean War in the 1850s. SEE ALSO: 5 black artists using their work to ...

Mary Seacole was an Afro-Caribbean nurse who served in the Crimean War (1853 to 1856) as what the Appeal has come to describe as Britain’s first battlefield nurse. She was one of the first black women ...

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Mary Seacole was a courageous Jamaican nurse who not enough people have heard of. Born in Kingston, she ran a successful hotel caring for the sick, before travelling to nurse the British soldiers ...

Against all the odds—of her sex, ethnicity and time—Seacole would launch herself into the heart of the war effort, and with it earn herself a unique place in the ...

Coventry enjoyed its second Black History Month this year with exhibitions and events being held in collaboration with Coventry Black Experience. As part of the celebration, Phillis Williams, a local ...

A student nurse practicing triage. A nanny scrolling through cellphone photos of her daughter, far away. A 19th-century field hospital, buffeted by explosions and flame-colored smoke. These and other ...

Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in the humanitarian drama “Seacole,” based on the life of pioneering Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, Variety has learned exclusively. Charlie Stratton will direct from a ...