A cross-party group of MPs have backed a campaign for Mary Seacole to become the first black person featured on the new £50 note. The Bank of England recently announced that the “more secure” polymer ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Over 160 years after she first gained fame tending to wounded British soldiers ...

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 ...

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, ...

Five nursing and midwifery professionals have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the health of black and ethnic minority communities. The winners of the 2015 Mary Seacole Leadership ...

A new Royal Mint commemorative coin in honour of Jamaican-British nurse Mary Seacole has been revealed to coincide with the UK’s Black History Month. It is the second coin to feature a named Black ...

The government of Jamaica has proclaimed November 23, 2021, as Mary Seacole Day, in memory of Mary Jane Seacole (1805–1881), an extraordinary Jamaica-born nurse and entrepreneur who travelled ...

Live Arts Theater’s 2024-2025 Voyages Season continues with the Virginia premiere of “Marys Seacole,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-travelling chronicle inspired by the real-life of Mary Seacole.

Friday marked the end of the week-long run of a student-produced production “Marys Seacole” at the Yale Repertory Theater. The play is the David Geffen School of Drama’s first production of 2023.