MARY SEACOLE
Newspaper coverage & Lectures
The Times: www.timesonline.co.uk Guardian: arts.guardian.co.uk
Independent: 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
(6 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. 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
I am delighted to announce my consultancy to the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas’s Hospital London as a specialist on Mary Seacole and women’s nursing in the Crimean War. The museum is currently being revamped thanks to generous funding by the Wellcome Trust.
See: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Writer • Historian • Russianist
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