{"id":48062,"date":"2016-07-03T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48062"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:07:44","slug":"mary-seacole-statue-unveiled-at-london-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48062","title":{"rendered":"Mary Seacole statue unveiled at London ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rcni.com\/nursing-standard\/newsroom\/news\/mary-seacole-statue-unveiled-london-ceremony-59076\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mary Seacole statue unveiled at London ceremony<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rcni.com\/nursing-standard\" target=\"_blank\">Nursing Standard<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alistairbauer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alistair Kleebauer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcXBsbJrzeA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>More than 200 years after her birth and 12 years after a campaign started to recognise her achievements, a statue to nurse heroine <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Seacole\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Seacole<\/a> has been unveiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To applause and loud cheers the permanent memorial to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Seacole\" target=\"_blank\">Mrs Seacole<\/a> was unveiled in the garden of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Thomas%27_Hospital\" target=\"_blank\">St Thomas\u2019 Hospital<\/a> on the banks of the River Thames.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican-born nurse set up the British Hotel near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balaklava\" target=\"_blank\">Balaclava<\/a> to provide soldiers with food and care during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crimean_War\" target=\"_blank\">Crimean War<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong>British Army<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Seacole, who was born in 1805 and died in 1881, nursed victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cholera\" target=\"_blank\">cholera<\/a> outbreaks in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama\" target=\"_blank\">Panama<\/a> in the 1850s, cared for victims of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_fever\" target=\"_blank\">yellow fever<\/a> epidemic in 1853, and supervised British Army nursing services in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>She was named the greatest black Briton in a 2004 poll.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_MaoSl_pJY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Times\u2019<\/em><\/a> Crimean War correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Howard_Russell\" target=\"_blank\">Sir William Howard Russell<\/a> wrote the following words about Ms Seacole\u2019s service during the conflict, which have been inscribed on a memorial disc at the back of the statue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead.\u2019&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/rcni.com\/nursing-standard\/newsroom\/news\/mary-seacole-statue-unveiled-london-ceremony-59076\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Seacole statue unveiled at London ceremony Nursing Standard 2016-07-01 Alistair Kleebauer More than 200 years after her birth and 12 years after a campaign started to recognise her achievements, a statue to nurse heroine Mary Seacole has been unveiled in London. To applause and loud cheers the permanent memorial to Mrs Seacole was unveiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,28,459,8,10,25],"tags":[24361,3692,24360],"class_list":["post-48062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-alistair-kleebauer","tag-mary-seacole","tag-nursing-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48064,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062\/revisions\/48064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}