The Times: www.timesonline.co.uk Guardian: www.arts.guardian.co.uk Independent: www.news.independent.co.uk
Daily Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk
February 2005 leader article in History Today: ‘The Invitation That Never Came:
Mary Seacole after the Crimea’. You can read this article at: www.iupui.edu
June 2005 Historical Consultant and ‘talking head’ for The Real Angel of
the Crimea -a Mary Seacole documentary made by October Films in Seacole’s
bicentenary year.Transmitted 26 June. See: www.octoberfilms.co.uk
July 2006 the Seacole portrait appeared on a British postage stamp - the first
named black person to be honoured in this way. See: www.royalmail.com
Since 2004 I have lectured about Mary Seacole’s life and work and the discovery of
the portrait on a regular basis: Mary Seacole: Separating Myth from Reality in the
Search for the Real Woman’. Mary Seacole Study Day at the Florence Nightingale
Museum, St Thomas’s Hospital, London 21 October 2004.
Talks on Mary Seacole and my discovery of her lost portrait for the National
Portrait Gallery (8 September 2005), Manchester and Birmingham City Art
Galleries-October 2005 and February 2006 in conjunction with the loan of the
portrait to a touring exhibition: Black Victorians: Black People
in British Art 1800 -1900. See: www.amazon .co.uk
‘A Portrait of Mary Seacole’ lecture at Citigroup, Canary
Wharf for Citigroup Roots in support of Black History month,
16 October 2006.
Daily Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk
February 2005 leader article in History Today: ‘The Invitation That Never Came:
Mary Seacole after the Crimea’. You can read this article at: www.iupui.edu
June 2005 Historical Consultant and ‘talking head’ for The Real Angel of
the Crimea -a Mary Seacole documentary made by October Films in Seacole’s
bicentenary year.Transmitted 26 June. See: www.octoberfilms.co.uk
July 2006 the Seacole portrait appeared on a British postage stamp - the first
named black person to be honoured in this way. See: www.royalmail.com
Since 2004 I have lectured about Mary Seacole’s life and work and the discovery of
the portrait on a regular basis: Mary Seacole: Separating Myth from Reality in the
Search for the Real Woman’. Mary Seacole Study Day at the Florence Nightingale
Museum, St Thomas’s Hospital, London 21 October 2004.
Talks on Mary Seacole and my discovery of her lost portrait for the National
Portrait Gallery (8 September 2005), Manchester and Birmingham City Art
Galleries-October 2005 and February 2006 in conjunction with the loan of the
portrait to a touring exhibition: Black Victorians: Black People
in British Art 1800 -1900. See: www.amazon .co.uk
‘A Portrait of Mary Seacole’ lecture at Citigroup, Canary
Wharf for Citigroup Roots in support of Black History month,
16 October 2006.
If you are interested in tracking the latest up-to-date news on
Mary Seacole events and news articles about her life, as well as the
fund-raising campaign for a statue, go to: www.maryseacole.com
If you would like to book a talk about Mary Seacole, her life, her work, or
my discovery of the lost portrait by Albert Challen, do please contact me
Mary Seacole events and news articles about her life, as well as the
fund-raising campaign for a statue, go to: www.maryseacole.com
If you would like to book a talk about Mary Seacole, her life, her work, or
my discovery of the lost portrait by Albert Challen, do please contact me
Helen conducting a radio interview
following the portrait’s unveiling
following the portrait’s unveiling
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