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This page might be
useful for anybody
seeking information
for kids interested
in Mary Seacole.
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If so please join
the Facebook
page: 'Mary Seacole: Campaign for
greater awareness
and & a memorial
statue'.
Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=4430811173&ref=mf
Click here for
the latest fact
sheet and Gift Aid
form for the Mary
Seacole Memorial
Statue Appeal
Monday 25th
January 2010: Independent newspaper article by Chris
Green concerning Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal -
click on this link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/memorial-to-crimeas-black-nurse-in-danger-1877867.html
Monday 11th
January 2010:
Voice newspaper
publish my piece:
'Let's get the facts
right about Mary
Seacole'.
Here's the link:
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=16861
For information
about events
concerning
Mary Seacole please
click here
to go to Events
page.
I do hope that you
are finding this
site helpful!
One way that you can
maintain the memory
of Mary Seacole is
to make an
online donation to
the registered
charity aiming to
erect a memorial and
promote educational
work in schools etc
- just click on
Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal [www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/] - many, many thanks for your support!
Professor Elizabeth
Anionwu,
Vice-Chairperson of
the Appeal.
Those of you out
there with your own
MySpace sites - how
about becoming a
friend of Mary
Seacole and
spreading the word
about Mary and the
Memorial Appeal??
Just visit:
www.myspace.com/maryseacole
Click here for
the very detailed
Wikipedia entry on
Mary Seacole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole]
RCN members can buy this short biography of Mary
Seacole for £2.99 [and non-members for £3.99.
To order a copy of A short
history of Mary Seacole by Professor Elizabeth
Anionwu call RCN Direct on 0345 772 6100, then select
option 3 and quote publication code 002 499.
A newly discovered photograph +
signature of Mary Seacole - prints available online
An unknown
photograph and a rare signature of
Jamaican born Crimean War nursing
heroine Mary Seacole (1805-1881) have
been unearthed at one of England's
oldest public schools. The exciting
discovery, in an album devoted to the
Crimean war, was made earlier this year
by Dr Geoffrey Day, the current Fellows'
and Eccles Librarian at Winchester
College.
Dr Day
notes that her photograph is an
indication of her importance at the
time: all the others in the album are of
military leaders: Mary Seacole is the
only non-combatant photograph.
Now the
photograph is to be used to keep Mary
Seacole's name alive. Winchester
College, whilst retaining copyright of
the image, has kindly allowed the Mary
Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal
[MSMSA] sole use of it in order to raise
funds for their appeal.
In association with the
MSMSA, prints of the photograph and signature, as well
as a jigsaw featuring the image, can be purchased online
via the
Mary Evans Picture Library Prints Online site:
http://www.prints-online.com/pictures_1581575/detail.html
A percentage of the
proceeds of the sale of this image are going towards the
Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal.
You can now read Mary Seacole's
1857 autobiography
'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands' FREE online via
either:
-
A celebration of Women Writers -
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/seacole/adventures/adventures.html
or
- The Project Gutenberg
online library via:
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=588279
1st
August 2006
Click
here to
read, in
today's
issue of
The
Times
newspaper,
an article
by Stuart
Flitton
'Seacole
memorial a
step
closer'.
Mary
Seacole's grave
I am
often asked how
people can
find Mary
Seacole's grave
- here are some
tips: Mary is
buried in
St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, 679-681 Harrow Road,
Kensal Green, London
NW10 5NY. Nearest
Tube Station is Kensal Green. Tel:
020 8969 1145.
Office open 9-4.30pm - they have a fact sheet on Mary
and are happy to direct to the grave. Mary
Seacole's grave number is 6830. To find her
grave once at the main Cemetery, turn right into the
Catholic Cemetery, carry on until you reach the chapel
(on the right), turn left at the chapel and follow
the path to the first crossroad, then turn right and
walk a small way (look for graves numbered around 6829)
and Mary's grave is over to the right - it stands out
from many of the others as it has a renovated headstone.
I recently read your biography of Mary Seacole. I
found her story fascinating as I didn't know a great
deal about Mrs Seacole apart from her existence,
which is what prompted me to buy the book.
It got me thinking about her grave
and as a keen amateur photographer I thought I would
go and take a couple of photo's. Prior to that I
decided to do a search for photo's of her grave on
flickr, if you are not familiar with flickr it's the
world's biggest photo hosting website and
consequently a huge resource for searches. Well
there was not a single photo of Mrs Seacole's grave
so I decided that had to be rectified, which I've
done today. I have posted seven photo's to the
website, here's a link to one of them
I also left a detailed description
and link to a map to help find her grave which was
so hard to locate, it took me and an hour and a
half! I placed a poppy in the arms of the teddy
bear left by the school children, I thought it
fitting for one to be on Mrs Seacole's grave
especially as tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday.
With kind regards
Maggie Jones (Registered Nurse, St
George's Hospital, Tooting, SW17.)
Print based on lost portrait of Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole colour card mounted print 12" x 10" (approximately A4 size) £53.62 (£63.00) from: National Portrait Gallery,
www.npg.org.uk St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Tel 020 7306 0055. They also produce postcards.
Schools may like to visit
www.npg.org.uk/live/edseacole/asp for questions (and suggested answers) produced by the National Portrait Gallery to ask pupils about the Mary Seacole portrait.
See further down for more information about exhibition materials that are for hire or sale.
Music linked
to Mary Seacole [please let me have more examples!]
February 2008:
this new section has been added following a request from
Mark Smith, a PGCE student, for information about music
or songs related to Mary Seacole's life. Mark has
set up the following website:
www.primarymusicteacher.com
- Mary
Seacole Musical
- script and
lyrics by Bob Forrest-Webb, score and orchestration
by Peter Gritton.
click here to read a stunning review of the musical.
For more details contact
petergritton@tiscali.co.uk.
- Mary
Seacole Opera - produced by multi-cultural opera
and dance company Gye Nyame, Richard Chew
(composer), SuAndi (libretto). For more details
visit:
www.gyenyame.org.uk/maryseacole.html
- Musical workshop: Medicine Woman by Opera Jam. A 45 minute performance (plus an education pack) that uses story telling and song to introduce Mary Seacole to audiences of 7 - 11 years. Available throughout October and beyond at a fee of £120. For further details contact Adwoa-Shanti Dickson: 07803 123 121 or via email:
operajam@fsmail.net
Videos, radio clips and films
All you
need to know about Mary Seacole!
See
pupils from Southwold Primary School in
Hackney perform their A-Z of Mary
Seacole in a film posted on YouTube in
June 2009:
Channel 4 Learning Ltd 1998 have produced a
booklet about Mary Seacole and DVD in the
Stop, Look, Listen Famous People series
- the booklet is written by
Moorcroft C, Magnusson M and Wood, S. The DVD is aimed at 5-7 year olds and includes a section on Mary Seacole. A teacher called Kathy Clark wrote to us in September 2003 saying that it was "..very good for school children. My class thoroughly enjoyed it and retained important information."
Channel 4 also commissioned October Films to make a one hour film about Mary Seacole entitled
The Real
Angel of the Crimea which was broadcast on 26th June 2005.
Listen to a radio interview with Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee, the editors of the 1984 edition of Mary Seacole's 1857 autobiography The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands that they gave on BBC Woman's Hour on 9th February 2004.
22nd July 2005. Good news from BBC Education: "Mary Seacole: A Hidden History" was broadcast earlier this year and will now be repeated as part of our programming for Secondary Schools in The Learning Zone on BBC 2 on Friday 28th October (Thursday night/Friday morning). A brief description of the programme is: " A documentary which aims to show how Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born nurse and heroine of the Crimean War has been excluded from its history. 1 x 30 minutes." A brochure containing details of all our forthcoming History programmes for Secondary Schools for 2005 - 2006 has recently been mailed to all such schools in the UK so History teachers will be aware to record the programme. Details are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/guide/
Watch a BBC Video Nation UK short film from 4th June 1996 when
the late Mrs Connie Mark, then President of the Memorial Association, talks about Mary Seacole - it includes a clip from a Wreath-laying ceremony at the graveside of Mary Seacole.
Click here to view and listen to the poem to Mary Seacole recorded by David Neita for BBC London Video Nation. It is recorded in George Street, London at the site of the Westminster Council Green Plaque that commemorates an address where Mary lived.
CBBC Magic Grandad history series has been broadcasting a 15 minute cartoon film about Mary Seacole that is aimed at 5 - 7 year olds undertaking Key Stage 1 / Level A Level B History. First shown 17th October 2003 and has repeated showings e.g. last shown on Monday 16/05/05, CBBC Class TV, 10:30 - 10:45 and Monday 16/05/05, CBBC Class TV, 12:30 - 12:45. Click above to be kept informed when further showings are planned. A video containing 15 minute films about 4 historical including Mary Seacole plus a Teachers Pack costing £37.44 is available from
BBC Schools Shop
The Doctress: Mary Seacole of Jamaica. This 45 minute docu-drama was produced in 2003 for the Mary Seacole Foundation (Jamaica) by Video for Change Jamaica. Available in the UK for £15 (to include postage and packing) c/o Hilary Nicholson, 89 Rusthall Ave, London W4 1BN Tel 020 8995 0629 or 020 7607 9661. For purchase in Jamaica and other parts of the world contact Video for Change in Jamaica via vfc@cwjamaica.com or via PO Box 14, Kingston 2, Jamaica W.I.
Exhibition materials, exhibitions and workshops for hire or to visit
The Florence Nightingale Museum
have produced a
Mary Seacole Resource Pack that was launched for the Mary
Seacole Bicentenary in London 2005 - the pack contains
six A4 laminated images. The reverse side of each image
features information, questions and tasks for use in the
classroom. Ideal for the UK National Curriculum, KS1 and
KS2'. Cost £5.95. For more info tel:
020 7620 0374 or email:
info@florence-nightingale.co.uk
A Mary Seacole pictorial chart
(70 x 100cm) produced by Pictorial Charts Educational
Trust
www.pcet.co.uk/
in collaboration with The Florence Nightingale Museum London is available for purchase.
Mary Seacole Poster £7 + £1.50 pp from The
Education Partnership Co:
educationpc@aol.com
Mary Seacole’s
trunk - a resource for schools. £395. For
more details visit:
www.realhistories.org.uk/moreDetails.php?resourceID=213
Cleo Sylvestre
is an actress who does a wonderful performance as Mary
Seacole, in costume and using the words from Mary's own
autobiography. When I saw her perform it felt as
though I was in the presence of Mary! Can be
contacted via The Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2 Shepperton Road, London N1 3DT.
020 7704 6665 http://www.rosemarybranch.co.uk/theatre_forgottenwoman.asp
Examples of useful websites concerning Mary Seacole
- don't forget Mary now has her own My Space site:
www.myspace.com/maryseacole
General
BBC History contains information about Mary Seacole in their Historic Figures section.
BBC Schools Famous People has an interactive section about Mary Seacole.
Mary Seacole 2005 A bicentennial tribute by Ziggi Alexander, co-editor of the 1984 edition of Mary's autobiography.
Moving Here 200 years of migration to England. This site was created in July 2003 and contains various images and texts that record the migration experiences over the last 200 years.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present. Contains a short article about Mary Jane Seacole.
See how the life of Mary Seacole is being promoted as a theme for UK schoolchildren within the National Curriculum by
the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)
http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_7966.aspx
The Florence Nightingale Museum
website has a section devoted to Mary Seacole -
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/cms/index.php/mary-seacole
Nursing
Black Nurses in History A guide from the USA based UMDNJ and Coriell Research Library.
General articles online
Introduction to article 'The invitation that never came: Mary Seacole in the Crimea by Helen Rappaport in History Today 55 (2) February 2005.
The heritage of Mary Seacole - a series of 5 articles by John Barham, military historian. They were written between 6th August and 26th November 2004.
Jason Young, Founder and President of the Tooting and Balham Writers' Circle is extremely committed to seeing Mary Seacole represented in literature and the arts. He has written a short story on Mary Seacole and the revised version (2004) can now be accessed online via www.writers-circles.com/tooting1.html Watch out for his play!
Notions of voluntary identity and citizenship in the Wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands by Emilian Kavalski, 2003 in
Jouvert 7(2)
Helen J Seaton (2002) Another Florence Nightingale? The discovery of Mary Seacole via the Victorianweb site.
Organisations
Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal [
www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/] - click on this link if you are interested in supporting the campaign to have a statue of Mary Seacole in central London by donating online to the appeal, which is a registered charity. Thank you for your support!
Mary Seacole Memorial Association (MSMA) for further details about this organization contact the Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AB. Email: diversity.team@rcn.org.uk or
Charmaine Case, Secretary of MSMA:
charmainecase@aol.com
Last updated:
12/04/2010
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