The nurse later co-led a successful campaign to erect a statue of Mary Seacole in June 2016. This was the first named memorial statue of a black woman in the UK. "I can still remember it," she ...

A new Royal Mint coin in honour of a 19th-century Jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers is the first to feature a named black woman from outside the UK.. Mary Seacole, who had a Scottish ...

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has been nominated at the Caribbean and African ...

A 19th-century Jamaican nurse will become the first Black woman from outside the UK ever featured on a Royal Mint coin. ... the first statue of a named Black female in the UK.

The sculpture of the half-Jamaican and half-Scottish nurse, believed to be the UK's first in honour of a named Black woman, was unveiled in 2016 with an inscription by The Times' Crimean War ...