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Dates for your diary! Thursday, 6 May 2010 at 2:30pm at The Wallace Collection - Historian Helen Rappaport is giving a lecture on Mary Seacole. In December 2003 historian Helen Rappaport experienced the ultimate serendipity when she discovered a lost portrait of the Crimean War heroine and nurse, Mary Seacole. The portrait, its sitter and the artist himself had all been lost to history since Mary Seacole’s death in 1881. But who was the mysterious ‘A. C. Challen’ who had executed what is now an iconic portrait that graces the National Portrait Gallery? In this talk Helen Rappaport will chart her extraordinary voyage of discovery – through the portrait’s authentification by the National Portrait Gallery and her loan of it to them, to her search for the portrait’s till then unknown artist. Tickets are £10 each and can be purchased by calling 0844 415 4151 Monday-Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, or generally can be purchased at the door. The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN For further details contact Kristin Panasewicz, Events Assistant, 020 7225 4870 eventsassistant@artfund.org Saturday 8th May 2010: Mary Seacole Wreath-Laying Service organised by the Mary Seacole Memorial Association The service is at 11am in the Chapel in St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Rise, London NW10 5NY followed by a luncheon for which there is charge of £8. For more details please contact the secretary Charmaine Case: Charmainecase@aol.com BLACK HISTORY IS OF INTEREST ALL YEAR Click here to visit the news items page Click here for latest Fact Sheet/Gift Aid form for Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal Please click here on Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal if you would like to make an online donation. Belong to Facebook? If so please join the Facebook page: 'Mary Seacole: Campaign for greater awareness & a memorial statue'. Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=4430811173&ref=mf Also, Mary has her own MySpace site: www.myspace.com/maryseacole
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