Simon & Schuster is to publish In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport in spring 2022. The publisher obtained UK and Commonwealth rights to the biography from ...

Historian Rappaport (After the Romanovs) delivers a doggedly researched biography of Mary Seacole, née Grant (c. 1805–1881), the Jamaican woman whose roles as caregiver, nurse, and shopkeeper during ...

Doctor Who: Flux Episode 2, “War of the Sontarans,” features Mary Seacole (Sara Powell), Britain’s first Black nurse, in the middle of a Sontaran invasion of Earth in 1855. Aliens meddling in human ...

Since she was voted ‘The Greatest Black Briton’ in a 2004 poll, Mary Seacole has become a popular subject in school history lessons. Children love the inspirational story of the plucky Jamaican nurse ...

Riffing on the life and legacy of the Anglo-Jamaican nurse of the title who knew Florence Nightingale and lent invaluable assistance during the Crimean War, Drury's one-act play asks probing questions ...

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 ...

This “eagerly awaited” debut is being hailed as “part of a wave of novels by young men of colour exploring race, romance and mental health problems”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Sunday Times.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A memorial statue believed to be the UK's first in honour of a named black woman has been unveiled in London. Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the ...