Many women who have changed Britain for the better weren’t originally from our shores. Here are the stories of just some of those inspirational immigrants.

To celebrate Women's History Month this March, and International Women's Day on 8 March, we've put together a collection of primary and secondary classroom reosurces ...

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 ...

Portrait of Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen (1869) (via National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia) (click to enlarge) The sculpture on London’s South Bank stands in the gardens of St Thomas’ Hospital ...

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 ...

Courtesy of Live Arts Theater. “Drury tells this story from a transcendental space within the global Black woman experience. There are particular caregiving experiences that Black women across the ...

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due. By Linda Villarosa When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...