Black nurses’ contributions to healthcare and to society as a whole have often been undervalued and hidden. As a result, many ...

Last week the first ever public statue of a black woman anywhere in Britain was unveiled. Crimean nurse Mary Seacole, sculpted in bronze, now stands in the grounds of St Thomas’s hospital in London — ...

Aiyana Straughn will be challenged to take audiences from a Manhattan playground to a Crimean battleground in the Virginia ...

Florence and a team of nurses made the long journey from the UK to help care for the wounded soldiers who were fighting in a place called Crimea. Miriam: When she arrived at the Army Hospital ...

In 1854, when war broke out in the Crimea, I knew at once I was meant to go there. I read about a woman called Florence Nightingale, who was looking for nurses to go with her to help the soldiers.