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 ...

The nurse was hailed as the greatest black Briton, yet plans for a statue have met with opposition. This conflict is part of a wider tradition by an elite In February 2004 Mary Seacole was voted by ...

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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 ...

Slavery in the US has inspired several writers in this series (Du Bois, Wright, Baldwin, Obama), and there will be more. Here in Britain, however, mainly for historical reasons, there is distressingly ...

Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...

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Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays the real-life 19th-century Jamaican-born healer in 'Marys Seacole,' the new experimental drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury, author of the acclaimed 'Fairview.' By Frank ...

When a new community hospital named after pioneering nurse Mary Seacole opened in Surrey this month, it marked a victory long in the making for Patrick Vernon. Patrick, a former NHS manager, has long ...

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