She had cards printed to advertise the care she was going to offer. BRITISH HOTEL. MRS. MARY SEACOLE (Late of Kingston, Jamaica), Respectfully announces to her former kind friends, and to the ...

She set up the British Hotel to provide help and care for the British soldiers involved in the war. And today we celebrate Mary Seacole as one of the extraordinary women of British history.

IF black pioneering nurse Mary Seacole was alive today she would probably be ... She was refused and so funded herself, setting up what became known as the “British hotel” where she fed and looked ...