Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...
In Melissa Pritchard’s biographical novel, Florence Nightingale, the fabled “lady with the lamp” who brought women and the nursing profession to the front for the first time during the Crimean War, ...
You’ve likely heard of Florence Nightingale but perhaps not Mary Seacole, a similarly courageous nurse and humanitarian who was born in 1805 in Jamaica (she was the daughter of a white Scottish ...
SHE is the first black woman to have a UK statue in her honour, the half-Scottish nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War. But the £500,000 bronze memorial to Jamaican-born ...
Over 160 years after she first gained fame tending to wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, the name Florence Nightingale is still recognized as a symbol of selfless caregiving and she is ...
Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive. Her campaign for better ...
When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from ...
Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive. Her campaign for better ...
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A Horrible Histories sketch showed Florence Nightingale turning down Jamaican-born Mary Seacole for work - BBC/Lion TV A Horrible Histories producer has defended the accuracy of the show following its ...
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Six years ago, Jackie Sibbles Drury wrote a play about a zombie apocalypse, titled “Social Creatures.” Her new play, which opened Monday at LCT’s Claire Tow Theater, is about a health-care apocalypse, ...
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