In Doctor Who: Flux, the travellers arrive in the middle of the Crimean War in the 1850s. The conflict was where Florence Nightingale famously tended to the wounded, as did Mary Seacole.

Themes: Mary Seacole; Black History; prejudice; determination; caring for others. Summary: Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805. She travelled to the Crimea during the Crimean War and set up ...

Today’s female doctors, nurses, other health staff and charity workers bringing aid and succour to the waves of refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict to Turkey and Europe are the direct descendants of ...