Edwin Seacole News Today

Leading equalities campaigner says a commemorative coin is “not good enough” and her image should appear on legal tender

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due.

Helen Rappaport sets out to bring ‘clarity to Seacole’s life’

Born: 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica (as Mary Jane Grant) Died: 14 May 1881 in London, England Also known as: Mother Seacole What was Mary Seacole famous for? She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. Today she is lauded as a role model, and in 2004 was voted the greatest black Briton in an internet poll. Was Mary Seacole a nurse? She had no formal ...

Still waiting for Seacole. My guess is that the film—directed by Charlie Stratton, and starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw—will be released in mid-May, to coincide with the anniversary of her death, or late November, to honor this valiant nurse and traveler on her birthday. Please, feel free to correct me! [See previous post .] Last May, the Mary Seacole Trust wrote: May 12th was International Nurses day and May 14th marks the anniversary of the death of Mary Seacole, the famous Jamaican Scottish...