It would take a determined individual like Florence Nightingale to change ... Another nurse who made her mark in Crimea was Mary Seacole. She used her own money to travel from Jamaica to Crimea ...

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 ...

Jacqueline Braithwaite's history-focused print is on display at the SS Great Britain's Dockyard Museum in Bristol.

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 ...

Continues on Friday on CBBC at 5:30pm with Series 11, Episode 2 Catch-up on Series 11, Episode 1 Streaming rank this week: 922 A tribute to Florence Nightingale ... and a visit to Mary Seacole's ...

Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, while Mary Seacole built a hotel in Crimea to help treat soldiers. Her offers of help had been rejected twice, so she had funded ...