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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 British medical training, but had knowledge of traditional Afro-Caribbean medicines taught to her by...

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 nurse who died in Paddington in 1881. Before lockdown, UK based production company, Racing Green ...