A £500,000 statue of Britain's most famous black nurse has been unveiled. The bronze of Mary Seacole is the first memorial statue of a black woman in the UK. Mary Seacole is said to have saved the lives of countless wounded soldiers and nursed them back to health in a clinic in Crimea which she paid for out of her own pocket. | ITV London

This #horriblehistories song about Mary Seacole will get stuck in your head ALL DAY Horrible Histories: British Black History / Streaming now / BBC iPlayer | BBC iPlayer

For over 100 years her story was erased from history - but why? Today's woman we should have learned about in school is #MarySeacole, a Jamaican-Scottish nurse who saved thousands of lives during the Crimean War | Freeda En

Mary Seacole: The Nurse History Tried to Erase Florence Nightingale is famous. Mary Seacole was erased. This Jamaican nurse served in the Crimean War of 1855 with MORE medical experience than most doctors—learned from her mother's Creole healing traditions, hardened through yellow fever and cholera epidemics across multiple continents. But when she applied to join the British military nursing corps, they rejected her. According to her autobiography and documented historical records, it was becau